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Rural Household Strategies for Expropriated Land: A Case Study of Demirci Village

Şefika Aydın * sefikaaydin@nku.edu.tr * ORCID: 0000-0001-9925-6484
Namik Kemal University, Vocational School of Social Sciences, Tekirdağ, TURKEY

Open Journal for Sociological Studies, 2020, 4(2), 67-78 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojss.0402.02067a
Received: 14 March 2020 ▪ Accepted: 28 May 2020 ▪ Published Online: 20 July 2020

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
In 2017, it was decided to move the military troop from the capital city Ankara to the Polatlı-Sivrihisar districts line. Residents of Demirci village, located in Sivrihisar, have been faced expropriation of their lands because of this decision. This study is focused on the household strategies developed by the villagers as a result of expropriation. This study aims to address the changes in the village from a sociological perspective. In this context, interviews have been carried-out with 20 people, whose lands have been expropriated. The collected data has been analyzed descriptively.  This study finds that the villagers, who have become landless, tend to migrate to cities. And the material provisions, which have been obtained from the expropriated lands, are generally used non-productively by them. This study also highlights a social disintegration caused by land expropriation in the village.

KEY WORDS: expropriation, migration, rural areas, household strategies.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Şefika Aydın, Namık Kemal University, Vocational School of Social Sciences, Tekirdağ, TURKEY. E-mail: sefikaaydin@nku.edu.tr.

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