The educational problems of turks living in europe

This study discuses education conditions of Turkish emigrant workers in Europe. The purpose is to determine the educational problems and help the Turks adapt to the education system of the country they live in. The research is a descriptive study. The current study uses qualitative research techniques to these issues based upon the opinions of these Turkish emigrants. In this research, convenience sampling was employed. A total of fifty workers participated in the semi-structured interviews. The content-analysis technique was used to analyze the data. The results of the research based on the problems may be summarized as follows: Categories of problems which these workers and their families have faced are school, language, discrimination, family, adaptation, culture and assimilation related. The results of the interviews with workers showed that the most important educational problems facing these workers and their families were educational discrimination, the inability to speak the native and foreign language efficiently, families not caring about their children' education accurately and the school failure of the worker's children.

Turks ,

Europe ,

Education ,

Migration ,

Turkish Workers ,