Identity Belonging Changes through Migration
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Abstract The concept of identity has been changing rapidly today. New dimensions are added to the ties dating from the
past. The dimensions are the learnt concept of identity, the extended mentality of male dominance and transmission of
sense of belonging down to next generations. Identity means symbolising one’s way of perceiving the self, and making the
individual visible. The concept of identity played pioneering roles in determining communities, and today it also plays
pioneering roles in describing individual identifies due to the fact that borders become indistinct with globalisation. This
transformation experienced in belonging of identity is re-shaped with the efforts to protect the heritage left by ancestors. A
part of Muslims living in the Balkans in the Ottoman period migrated to Anatolia for various reasons. People living in the
areas migrated to give such nicknames as” new comers in the ninety threes”, and thus turned the migration into a symbolic
system of meanings in the society. Dikili district of İzmir was an area of such intensive migration. Immigrants coming from the
Balkans settled in in the city centres as well as in some villages. This study was conducted in 2016 in the district of Dikili and
in its villages. This research investigated those immigrants identity belonging. Thus, it focussed on how they identified
themselves. The research used the technique of in-depth face to face interviews. Conversations on migration stories are also
included in the research. Audio and video recordings were made in the research, and the recordings were then decoded and
interpreted.
Key words: Identity, Migration, Albanian, Nomadic, Dikili
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