Newly acquainted people often ask each other where they are from
is a familiar behavior. Under this behavior, what
is the person looking for, what are they trying to predict, or what risks are
scanning? People are actually looking for predictable reactions,
behaviors and values, norms in the person they have just met. More precisely, they want to know the similarities and
differences, and they implicitly test
threat and security.
People feel the spaces they live in, beyond perceiving a physical reality
connects and defines their sense of self
through some spatial variables. Just as an identity that is
independent of the place cannot be thought of, neither is a place without an identity
. People establish relationships with the places they live in, attribute meanings to them
and form their identities through the
living environment in which they live. Being in a common space creates a familiarity, a trust
relationship. In this case, it is a situation related to
defining and positioning oneself through space. A new process of harmony and a search for trust
begins in the new place. Leaving the habitual place creates a traumatic situation like leaving the mother's womb
. Various situations such as whether migration is compulsory,
optional or forced, geographical necessity,
with the aim of living in better conditions, change the traumatic dimension
people will experience.
Not all individuals are affected by the migration situation at the same rate
. Migration is both a trauma and a trigger for trauma.
It carries the risk of triggering and activating traumas that were experienced, partially overcome or suppressed. These people
will be those who are more affected by the migration spiritually. Those with less individuation
skills and those with a dependent identity structure are more effective than immigration
creates the group to be captured. Those with the
narcissistic personality pattern or those with narcissistic personality disorder are
affected by the immigration situation and are weaker in their coping skills, and
they may be left alone with a narcissistic hurt. Those with weak mental flexibility
remain in fear of extinction and experience more
psychological negativity.
Sense of worthlessness, shame, anger, skepticism, worthlessness,
depression, longing The feelings of loneliness, alienation, and guilt are the most prominent in people who migrate. Searching for
dishes specific to their own culture in the places they visit is like
searching for a kind of mother's lullaby.
Another problem that immigrants face is labeling and
stereotypes. In this case, it causes the opportunity to benefit from education
opportunities, lack of success, and hinders the realization of its potential
. All of these cause low
self-worth, making them vulnerable to physical diseases,
increase in somatic complaints and low resistance.
Immigrants cannot fulfill their religious rituals, cannot live their traditions
and feel more self-conscious.
Loneliness and alienation are the feelings that accompany this process at most. In the face of the destruction of their social identities
, they have difficulty
to reconstruct their social identity.
Migrants leave their habits
at the same time where they leave physically, they leave their hobbies, they enjoy various rights and their sociability
leaves the enabling environment. This means the process of isolation and alienation
. From time to time, the immigrant is faced with the situation of not being able to feel he/she belongs to a place.
Women adapt to the new place more easily and they can establish social relations in the new place faster than men. This, in turn, allows them to adapt more quickly and to develop elements of social support
.
One of the most important
situations they try to overcome is their loss, those left behind, and
mourning this situation. This requires a grieving process. On the other hand,
there is a longing for the reserved place, place, environment and relationships. Fear of exclusion stimulates the
pain center in the brain, and people experience the same thing as physical pain. Reorganizing
creating a new identity, adapting, learning the requirements of the new environment
requires a period of time and a process of getting used to
. Rebuilding trust that has been destroyed by immigration is not easy for everyone
. Therefore, the migrant is more timid, more
insecure and more skeptical of risks, and is more anxious with a state of alertness. The search for identity is a basic need. There is a situation of demolition and reconstruction
of the identity he has acquired with the space and the social
environment. The situation of rejection leads to the need to cling to one's own identity more
.
Immigrants face discrimination in the places they go to. This is accompanied by language problems and the inability to
express one's own feelings. Not being understood and not accepted
activates the feeling of helplessness after a while, and a depressive
mood is in question. This situation
is completely beyond the control of the person and it is not possible for the person to intervene
. Being exposed to negative judgments causes anger
in people. This situation creates the same effect as being subjected to a kind of bullying.
As a result of blending one's own culture with the culture of the destination, the harmonization process is followed. Social support opportunities,
bonds with the people there, friendships accelerate this process.
Those who fail to integrate either reject their own culture and adopt the culture of the place they go to
and become assimilated, or with the separation model
they reject and continue to live their own culture
and they do not adapt.
Where one feels more at home is an important criterion.
means construction and implementation. No matter what
people set out with their expectations,
encountering situations and difficulties that do not match the facts is a
situation in the basic structure of migration.
The concept of belonging
especially when considered in terms of immigrants. It can be seen that the identity dimension comes to the fore and the formation of identity is of critical importance. “Identity includes both a differentiation between the individual and the other, and it is constructed from the
identifications between oneself and others.”
According to this theory, migration is not only the physical separation of the individual, but also the physical separation of the individual. At the same time, it is the separation of the individual from a set of rights, rules and social
patterns of interaction with which the individual is accustomed. Being separated from the environment to which a person is used to
can cause him to experience feelings such as loneliness, alienation and feeling worthless
. migrant's insecurity
makes him feel helpless and prevents him from using even suitable opportunities effectively. While the immigrant desires to be
like other people, he also fears that he will be
destroyed by the new culture; on the other hand, he wants to protect his identity
and feel himself as he is. These conflicts cause him
alienation and emotional turmoil. Feelings of loneliness and
alienation increase anxiety and depressive symptoms, and
can subsequently cause psychosomatic complaints such as loss of appetite, indigestion, sleep disorders, and headaches.
Forced migration. It is thought that the anxiety and stress caused by the feelings of loss, uncertainty, mourning, painful
events about the person or
belongings left behind during the process may cause temporary or permanent
psychological dysfunctions
In art, which is an expression
way of coping with the emotions experienced with migration, this situation is intensely processed. Gurbet is one of the most discussed topics in Turkish
literature. Hometown folk songs can be sung from the mouths of both those who go abroad and those who are left behind.
As people move away from their target selves, they may feel threatened
and when they think that they are under an environmental threat, they may experience stress
. Stress experienced, future anxiety,
existential anxiety, feeling of uncertainty, questioning of self;
causes them to experience various pathologies that affect their psychological functioning, such as
post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, anxiety disorders
.
Life; It takes place in the process of constantly adapting to new situations, being flexible, acquiring new
skills and replacing losses with new things
. This whole process, which develops slowly in the course of life
creates a state of shock in people who migrate, and they are faced with a cognitive and emotional
difficulty. For people with mental sensitivities,
traumatic experiences, and those with mental problems,
who have identity problems, it creates an even more difficult process to cope with. With migration
, while people try to cope with the difficulties they face, on the one hand, they grow
on the one hand, and on the other hand, they actually gain resistance and become stronger in the face of difficulties
.
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