Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Diplomasi ve Strateji Dergisi, cilt.3, sa.2, ss.120-163, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
In this study, Migrations to Europe during the post-colonial period and
World War II were handled through the Subaltern Theory, which is a
post-colonial approach. It has been tried to show that colonialist order
practices change space and form due to the structure and approaches
towards migrants in countries with the direction of migration. As the
breaking point in which this change in space and form began to be seen
and the global economic order changed, the post-1945 period, when the
dates of the onset of decolonization and the new economic order after
the Second World War almost overlapped, was chosen. In this context,
migrants who make up at least one-fifth of the population of the
European Union today are claimed as modern subalterns, and nation,
nation-state, citizenship, nationalism, and European immigration
policies, which are the subject of International Relations and
International Relations discipline, are discussed within the framework
of Subaltern Theory. Migration theories focus on specific issues such as
the opportunities that cause migration, the push-pull model, group
decision and cultural ties, related migration networks, cost-benefit
calculations, the structure of the internal labor market, economic
developments, etc. However, Subaltern Theory offers a broader and
general view of migration. Therefore, the Subaltern Theory constitutes
the focal approach of this study. This theory is the reason for choosing
this theory in this study. In this study, in which the comparative
literature review method is preferred among the qualitative research
methods, it has been tried to show that the Subaltern Theory, which is
mostly examined by the history theorists, can be an explanatory approach
in the Discipline of International Relations.