YAKAR, Mustafa Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi - Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi - Coğrafya Bölümü, Turkey

Internal migration Pattern in Turkey based on Difference of Residential and Registration Locations

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As a result of the population movements which have taken place since the last century in Turkey and in the world, a progressive momentum in the population living in places other than the places they were born in or are registered in is observed. Within this context, the objective of the study was to manifest the dimensions of the accumulated relocation and spatial characteristics between the provinces in Turkey with reference to place of registration, place of residence and the difference between the place of residence and the place of registration. The data for the study consists of the crosstabs titled ‘the place of residence of the population versus the place of registration’ and ‘the place of registration versus the place of residence’ for provinces and districts obtained from the ‘Address Based Population Registration System for 2007-2013. Since this table manifests the differences between the ‘place of registration’ and the ‘place of residence’ of the population it can be considered as an indirect data set which can be used to demonstrate internal migration. There has been a continuous increase in the rate of those living in provinces other than their province of registration in Turkey and reached 40% in 2013. Those who are registered in a province other than the province of residence are concentrated on the western coasts of Turkey and its metropolis while those who live in a province other than their province of registration are concentrated east of the Zonguldak-Mersin line. This outlook is similar to the net migration map and verifies that internal migration in Turkey is oriented from the eastern part of the country to the west and from the central regions to the coasts and from rural areas to metropolitan areas and indicates that the main actors in the urbanization process in Turkey are the migrants who are registered in provinces other than their province of residence

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Population Registration Place , Place of Residence , Internal Migration , Regional Differences , Turkey

Aegean Geographical Journal

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