Nature-based experiences of immigrants from Turkey in Gothenburg

Abstract

ABSTRACT The economic, ecological, and social lives of migrants are neither independent of places they emigrate nor their homeland. This dependency push immigrants to carry their historical and cultural conditions of homelands to host countries. The cultural networks between immigrants provide the reproduction of the culture in the migrated places. The social structures determined by the culture at the local scale are transferred to different places via the migration mechanism. The specific qualities of each host localities can define the boundaries of cultural ties. In other words, the economic, ecological, and social conditions of the host country determine the limits of this cultural interaction. Specific host country conditions can adjust the boundaries of culture more sensitive to local qualities. Thus, immigrants offer a unique opportunity to define how each locality understands and sets its specific and current conditions and how cultures are transferred from local to the host countries. Based on this perspective, I tried to examine how migrants from Turkey in Gothenburg convey their interactions with nature according to the specific sensitivity of the host localities.