Ülkelerin göçmenlere karşı tutumlarına göre Taksonomi yöntemiyle sıralanması
Creators: name: Aytekin, Ahmet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160303 Migration
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 200208 Migrant Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 220302 Decision Theory
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 170202 Decision Making
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Migration is a phenomenon directly related to individuals' search for a better life. Factors such as job, education, health, sheltering, and security are at the forefront in this search for a good life. However, the September 11 attacks and the economic crises in the following period have negatively affected the perception of immigration among settled societies. This study aimed to examine attitudes towards immigrants in the context of specific countries. For this purpose, the answers given to questions about immigrants in the World Values Survey (WVS) questionnaire form were used. In WVS, questions about migration and immigration perception were asked to participants in forty-eight different countries. In the context of the answers given to these questions, the countries were evaluated according to the general immigrant perceptions. To rank the countries according to the positive perception of immigrants, the Taxonomy method, one of the multi-criteria decision-making methods, was used. In the application of Taxonomy method, ten questions asked within the WVS were used as evaluation criteria. These are the impact of immigrants on the development of country, filling useful jobs in the workforce by immigrants, strengthen cultural diversity, increasing crime rate, giving asylum to political refugees, increasing terrorism risks, helping poor people establish new lives, increasing unemployment, social conflict and immigration policy preference criteria. The evaluation scores of the countries in each criterion were determined according to the answers given to the relevant WVS question. The values obtained from the weighted average result were used in the questions in which the positive or negative answers were stated in degrees. In the weighted average, the first order is full, and the second order is weighted by ½. The top five countries in the positive attitude towards immigrants ranking are New Zealand, Andorra, Australia, Vietnam, and China. The last five countries are Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Colombia, and Malaysia. It is noteworthy that the countries in the last three places have received heavy immigration in the last decade due to the Syrian civil war. Excluding Andorra, which is a geographically small country among the top countries, there is no European country. There may be a relationship between this situation of far-right movements and anti-immigrant policies that have recently increased in Europe. In addition, two developed Oceania countries such as New Zealand and Australia, which include examples of multicultural societies, were at the top. It is a known reality that countries have different geographical regions, economic and cultural structures. However, the main reason pushing people to migrate is common and can be summarized as achieving better living conditions. In this context, improving the living conditions of people in their current location is an option to prevent migration. On the other hand, immigrants should be accepted in the societies they migrated to, not be marginalized, efforts should be increased to ensure equal living opportunities and their integration, and policies and problems against racism should not be postponed.<br>