Migration / Barkerdiş
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Migration / Barkerdiş
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The psychology of migration passed down from generation to generation is a heavy emotional burden that migrants have to carry.
Because migration stories are not just jokes. It is bloody, it is destructive, it means crossing mountain roads despite your torn shoes, it is risking drowning while trying to cross the seas. Migration is setting out to unknown lands to live.
For example, Alan Kurdi, a little kid who drowned in the sea with his brother and mother while crossing the migration routes from Bodrum, a district of Muğla, to Greece by boat... The eyes of the world saw this drama, and yet the migrations continued unabated in all their reality.
Even if the individuals of societies that migrate continuously settle down, they inevitably pass on this migration psychology to those who come after them.
The psychology of migration is muteness, loneliness, alienation, silence, fear and a deep longing for everything they left behind. The psychology of migration is a heavy novel. It penetrates the facial expressions, tone of voice, soul, body language, social and romantic relationships of the inhabitants.
In short, the psychology of migration is bumping into the strange looks of those around you while saying Ya Xızır.
Migration is a slice of life where you set off on unknown roads and the end is uncertain, and migrating is being the other of the society you have reached and being a stranger to. In a way, you become the black person of the place you go, being emigrated is like being labeled a scapegoat.
The mother tongue spoken at home, the sad music listened to, the wedding and death rituals are passed on to the new generations of the migrating society with the feeling of being an immigrant, while the new generations can no longer find the way of their ancestors.
There are different reasons for emigration. The phenomenon of migration, which is a universal problem, is a big problem worldwide.
Migration does not mean moving from one house to another for a more comfortable life.
There are no arbitrary migrations. Societies are forced to migrate due to reasons such as natural disasters (earthquakes, fires and floods, etc.), wars, cultural and religious differences, pressure from political rulers they oppose, and situations in which life is in danger.
Migration is not a simple word as it seems. Migration and forced migration traumatize individuals and societies, and the psychology of migration has an effect that is passed on to three generations at once.
When people migrate from the lands where they were born, they do not just leave behind a place, a village or a city; they also leave behind the lands where they have taken roots, their cemeteries, vineyards and gardens.
For example, in a village of Dersim, the mulberry garden of the Armenian Garo continued to exist like an orphaned child even when they were not there.
When migrating, a wholeness breaks into pieces. It is exactly at this point that the scattered pieces become ineffective, sending everything that constitutes its essence to a distant memory and are forgotten in time. Even if the pieces of the whole come together, it can no longer be itself completely.
It is not as easy as it seems to adopt the dominant cultural codes in the new settlements to which they migrate and to socialize. The perception of the environment and mass media about immigrants is decisive for the formation of normal conditions.
Migration has continued and continues unabated throughout history. We hope that the exodus from all parts of the world will be mandatory for the formation of societies where goodness is further magnified. Humanity has internalized conscience and sharing towards its own species and all other living species as rising values and reaches the high level of humanity by accepting it with all its soul. With love.
Story writer Sociologist Family counselor
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