Migration in Crimean Tatars literature: Poems and folk songs

Crimean Tatar migrations, with its causes and consequences, have great effects. These migrations have been in large masses in different centuries. Many families who were forced to immigrate from Crimea to different countries preserved their culture in the places they migrated and taught their children about Crimea and love of homeland. Poets and writers who grew up in this atmosphere reflected the experiences in works such as poetry, novels and stories. During the migration, the immigrants who set out on an unknown journey sang many folk songs with different feelings. These folk songs have survived to the present day. The immigrant literature of the Crimean Tatars was formed with all these works given during or after the migration. The national identity consciousness formed and preserved in poets and writers who were separated from their homeland and grew up without seeing their homeland are the striking elements in the works. In this study, the formation process of Crimean Tatar immigrant literature and its effect on social life in poems from the given works were questioned. The poems and the folk songs in this study are taken from Kurtumerov, E.E., Useinov, T.B. and Xaraxname, A.M.'s book "Къырымтатар иджрет эдебияты" published in 2002. Before starting the main subject, the history of the Crimean Tatars and the reasons for migration are mentioned. Poems on migration were examined and the national identity consciousness of immigrant poets and the elements of national identity that were desired to be built in Crimean Tatar nation were determined. The poems have been analyzed by making use of the sources of philosophy, psychology and sociology related to the subject.