Imm？grat？on And Afghans: “Cons？stent Refugees”

Afghanistan, from the first day it was founded has been one of the leading countries in “producing refugees” and owned a very “consistent immigration” structure. In today's world, sometimes described as post-industrial era, Afghans have migrated with the “most primitive” methods and started to look for new immigration opportunities due to the exploitation and exclusion they have been exposed to at their destination countries. Immigration becomes a very crucial element remaining inseperable from the nation's history and refugees’ life. In this process, Turkey has continued to be an unchanged destination for transit immigration. This study focuses on the Afghans who reside in the city center of Kars. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the current conditions of the Afghans that reside in the city center of Kars and find out their principal needs and problems. In this study, information related to experience of Afghan refugees and their current conditions were gathered by semi-structured interview techniques. Even though it could be said that the life standards of Afghans after immigration visibly evolved compared to those prior to migration, there were still important issues with regards to their level of life standards. In many cases, migration, as a journey to find a solution for the immigrants’ lives in poverty, causes them to face the poverty again at their arrived destination and publicly the only thing that changes is the geography that poverty prevails. As being “source of concern” for their home countries; “source of cheap labour” for their employers, some of those immigrants were able to remove the gunshots, security threats, misery and violence from their life but poverty has remained the same