Filmlerde Türkiye’den Almanya’ya İşgücü Göçü: Son Bölüm

People continue to leave their countries where they were born and where they constructed their identities through cultural codes and they immigrate into cultural environments where different historical experiences create different identities. Even though the said movement of population is nothing new, the development we experience in this age introduces a different sense and content to the concept of immigration. It has been stated several times that the movement of immigration which is experienced today appeared as a movement towards “developed” societies, which triggered the search for welfare. Besides, after all, what is experienced is a search for solution and the potential of this search of solution on the structural and cultural transformation of societies is on the agenda of politicians as it is a fact from which the cinema cannot isolate itself. Cinema, as a tool of cultural production, is much more powerful than other mass media in terms of its capacity and capability for molding public opinion. The representation of immigrants in films are functional in this context. The representation of Turkish immigrants who travelled to Germany to work since 1960's in movies provides striking examples about cinema's power of reconstruction of social memory. In this study, the current form of this journey which is made in search of a better life, will be analyzed based on the films that deal with immigration to Germany.