Description
Studies in the literature on international migration tend to analyze the political behavior of immigrants. Along with this analysis, some of them focused on voting behaviors after gaining citizenship or participating in elections, especially in countries where immigrants went. Therefore, the political behavior of immigrants towards their own country is also worth examining in the literature.
The topic of this study is the comparative analysis of Turkish migrants’ ideological position and voting behavior in terms of elections in Turkey and the UK’. The main reason for choosing this research topic is that there are very few studies based on detailed field research on the analysis of voting behavior of citizens living abroad who are described as "expat" in the literature. At the same time, which is relatively small in number, these studies only focus, to analyse the voting behavior over Turkey elections or UK elections.
As will be examined in detail in this study, studies especially about Turkish migrants in Europe deal with the political behavior of these immigrants in a single focus or try to explain the political behavior of immigrants with the perspective of sociology of immigration, rather than making analyzes on voting behavior. The main objective of this study is to fill the gap in the literature on this subject by making a comparative analysis of the voting behavior of Turkish immigrants living abroad, through the example of the United Kingdom.
