The Impact of Immigration on the Urbanization

Since 2011, the world is confronted with one of the largest refugee

crises, the Syrian refugee crisis. The Syrian refugee crisis

has become one of the biggest tragedies and attracts everyone's

attention worldwide. The civil war and terror in Syria have led

to millions of people leave their country and migrate to other

countries. Many Syrian immigrants prefer to move to Turkey,

where they feel as a second homeland. While some of these people

live in camps, most of them have been spread and settled

in cities in Turkey. This study aims to identify the characteristics

of Syrian refugees in Turkey as they relate to urbanization.

The first concept of this study is given brief information about

urbanization and its related concepts. One of the reasons for urbanization

is internal and external migration. In this context, the

general situation of the refugees, who had to leave their country

because of the civil war to move to Turkey just for safety and a

better life, is reviewed in this study. Furthermore, in this study,

the reasons why people had to migrate, why they prefer Turkey,

the debates about the legal status of refugees in Turkey, the effects

of refugees on Turkey and the challenges of the refugees

in Turkey are generally discussed. The appropriateness of the

border cities in Turkey for the refugees is usually argued, it is

then discussed which cities are suitable for Syrian refugees. In

the last part, an analysis of the burden-sharing of refugee crisis

problem is examined in the case of relations between Turkey

and United Nations, European Unions or other countries.

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