A REVIEW OF THE CONCEPTUAL DEFINITION OF MIGRATION AND SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES

OpenAlex İngilizce

Migration is considered a highly significant concept within the existence and life cycle of humankind. The close relationship between the region or place where people live and their ability to sustain their lives has attracted the attention of many scientists and thinkers, who have put forward scientific approaches to this subject. Especially after the Industrial Revolution, rapid and fundamental changes profoundly affected economic and social life, and as a result of this interaction, the phenomenon of migration has been deemed worthy of use in scientific studies. Migration, a multifaceted subject, is evaluated within scientific disciplines according to the rules and conceptual framework of the relevant science. This study aims to understand the scientific foundations of migration by addressing the importance of defining the concept of migration, examining various definitions, and comparing these approaches within a conceptual framework. The study concludes that defining the concept of migration is not only an important issue but also crucial in classifying migration, and that the conceptual definition of migration and its theoretical basis are extremely important in all studies.