1980 sonrası Büyükada'da sermaye birikimi ve emek: Van-Ercişli göçmenler örneği

Focusing on the narratives of a migrant community from Van-Erciş in Büyükada who migrated to the island in the 1980s and since then suc-cessfully transitioned to self-employment, this thesis emphasizes the role of self-employment as a strategy to overcome labor market dis-crimination within migrant communities. It also assesses the influence of family dynamics on entrepreneurial activities. Drawing upon migrant self-employment literature, notably the concepts of 'necessity entre-preneurship' and 'embedded market approach', the thesis seeks to comprehend the entrepreneurial processes of Van-Erciş migrants. Four main areas of literature are utilized in this study: research on the Princes' Islands, studies on rural to urban migration since 1980, re-search on Kurdish labor, and studies on migrant self-employment. The fieldwork for this thesis included 21 in-depth, face-to-face interviews and participant observation conducted in Büyükada between April 2022 and January 2023. The objective is to enrich the literature by in-vestigating the ethnic context of working-class entrepreneurship in Turkey, particularly focusing on the transition from informal labor to entrepreneurship.