Türkiye's Migration Experience and Policy Orientations: Integrating Syrians in Higher Education

Türkiye has had multidimensional migration experience not only in its past, but also in its present that has led to the formation of a dynamic migration policy to govern such a dynamic process. Türkiye’s migration policy has been informed and shaped by its geopolitical location as a migrant receiving, labour migrant sending, and migrant transit country. Today, Türkiye hosts the largest number of migrants and refugees in the world with a far-reaching social, political, and economic impact on the country. This article aims to shed light on the multidimensional migration experience of Türkiye and analyse its migration policies to govern manifold challenges brought about by the presence of almost 6 million foreigners in the country. It is argued in this article that the integration of migrants in general and of Syrians in particular remains a major challenge for Türkiye. Therefore, this article recommends that Turkish decision makers should make short and long-term plans for the integration of Syrians as the current conditions indicate that it is unlikely that Syrians will return in any signifi cant numbers any time soon even though the Turkish government has initiated a number of projects in parts of Northern Syria for the safe and voluntary return of its countrymen and women. One important area of integration in this context is higher education, which would enable Syrians to have access to employment and social mobility that would benefi t both themselves and Türkiye

Kadın Kütüphanecilerin Kariyer Yolundaki Tehlike: Cam Tavan Sendromu = The Danger in the Career Path of Female Librarians: The Glass Ceiling Syndrome

Although there is no legal obstacle within the organization, the invisible barriers that prevent women from coming to senior management positions are called glass ceiling syndrome; in the literature. The main reason for choosing gender discrimination as the subject of this study is that this issue can be encountered at all levels of business life as well as for women working in libraries, information center, etc. and it puts them at a disadvantage. The starting point of this assumption has been that the students who preferred the Information and Records Management Departments, which provide undergraduate education in universities from the past to the present, were predominantly female students, then this weight continued in their professional life, but the situation was reversed in the management levels. Despite this, it is interesting to see that this important subject has not been explored in the librarianship literature until now. The aim of the study is to investigate whether the glass ceiling syndrome has an effect on the promotion of female information professionals to managerial positions. In this study, the data about the information professionals studying and working in this field were turned into statistical tables and an evaluation was made based on these results by considering the reasons for bringing men to the managerial positions in a female-dominated profession. As a result of the evaluation of the data, the assumption that the initial glass ceiling syndrome was an obstacle in the professional careers of female information professionals was also confirmed

Discursive constructions of language and identity: parents' competing perspectives in London Turkish complementary schools

In this paper, I draw on interview data to explore parents' constructions of language and identity in two London Turkish complementary schools. I examine parents' evaluative talk about standard Turkish, Cypriot-Turkish and other regional varieties of Turkish, the cultural values they attach to them and images of personhood these invoke. I demonstrate how parents brought up in Turkey and Cyprus tend to privilege standard Turkish and acknowledge the crucial role Turkish complementary schools play as one of the key vehicles for its spread and promotion. Some parents, however, especially those politically active in promoting Cypriot-Turkish language, culture and history to the British-born generation, voice an alternative discourse where Cypriot-Turkish is intimately linked to their sense of self. Moreover, I investigate parents' perspectives of their children and of their own Turkish language competence in the case of parents brought up in the UK. I illustrate how their Turkish and their children's are compared against a ‘native’ speaker norm firmly located in the countries of origin. The parents' accounts show how different self- and other-ascriptions of proficiency in Turkish are linked to claims of or lack of ‘Turkishness’, largely shaped by their migration histories and narratives, personal and professional transnational experiences

Yapı Biyolojisi ve Üniversite Kütüphanesi Kullanıcısı

Construction is a kind of environment which is designed and produced within pysical and social context for covering the biological, psychologic, sociologic expectations of the users. The expectations of the users are covered according to the quality of pysical and social peculiarities of the construction which is sensitive to external environment. The constructions, which can not cover the expectations of the users, might cause biological and psychological problems and in the end those constructions might cause health problems. The health relationship between the construction and the user is a subject of “Building Biology”. The aim of the study, which concentrates on the evaluation of university libraries in regard to building biology, is to determine the following factors and to put forward necessary precautions : - physical, social internal and external environment qualities; - negative elements within this environment; - factors which detoriate the user’s health caused by those negative elements; - to put forward the necessary precautions

Üniversite Kütüphanelerinin Tasarımında Çevresel Etmenler

Each consturuction (building), in addition to its basic aim combined of preserving, isolating and auditing functions, holds the particular responsibility such as housing, service and production (house, hospital, factory, library etc.). Construction should be designed and produced both to provide physical comfort necessary for living and the users’ needs. The story of construction begins with necessity and lasts along with design, production and using periods. The positive performance of using period depends partially on construction program and largely on the reasonable evaluation of “knowledge obtaining” period, which is the first step of design period in overall “analysis” studies. The using performance of university libraries is determined according to the perfectionist knowledge obtaining study, which is based upon analysis. The content of this study is significant since it would reflect itself on insufficient knowledge, designing data and in the and on library performance

Kütüphane ve Bilgi Merkezi Çalışanları Arasındaki Etik Dışı Davranışlara Bir Örnek: Psikolojik Taciz (Mobbing) = An Example of Unethical Behaviours Among The Library and Information Center Workers: Psychological Harassment (Mobbing)

Although the professional titles and ranks are different, everyone who is working in the field of information and documentation management has the responsibility of performing this profession in an ethical frame. This profession requires an academical education and specilisation as well as its service is required by certaing groups in society; and it has its own professional organisation and ethical rules. Anyone who choses this profession also carries the responsibilities of it. At the same he/she bears the honour of the profession that is different from any other pride and beyond of it. To systematically treat the people who work at lower rank in a manner that is hostile which can be accepted as psychological/moral harassment is againts the human rights and professional ethic; and it cannot be accepted whatever the reason. The starting point of the study is based on a hypothesis for which if anyone who is subject to a psychological/moral harassment is informed about the issue he/she can draw much easier a road map to find a solution to this unpleasant situation. The aims of this study are to determine the possible behaviours that will be described as psychological/moral harassment, and possible preventive actions againts them; and to inform the people who are working in the field of information and documentation management. In the research some of the moral harassment incidents in Turkey are taken as samples; those of incidents are examined according to the legal issues; and are compared with different overseas applications. As conclusion, the immediate actions against moral harassment; the legal rights of workers; responsibilities of employer; legal issues and human rights; and solutions are discussed