The thesis provides a socio-philosophical analysis of the impact of global
migration processes on the formation of national identity and identification practices
of migrants in the context of a transnational socio-cultural space.
It reveals essential characteristics and structure of the concepts "identity",
"national identity", it anayzes global migration as a social phenomenon, the nature of
migration flows and their types, as well as multidimensionality of the modes of national
identity functioning in the context of modern migration processes. Global migration,
transforming demographic processes, primarily affects people's way of life, the
ontological foundations of identity. It is proved that modern migration processes,
causing the growth of sociocultural and ethno-confessional diversity of societies, create a
fundamentally new context for the formation of national identity both of the population
of host countries and ofmigrants. Due to migration flows, the level of homogeneity and
complementarity of titular nations decreases, their identity is fragmented, the structure
and content of national identity change significantly; the latter necessarily acquires the
signs of multifacetedness, dynamism, incompleteness, contextuality. The rigidly
deterministic models of national identity, characteristic of previous historical epochs, are
replaced by the principle of variability, choice, and identity building.
It is justified that global migration processes form multinational
transnationality within migrants, and their identity is characterized by dynamism,
instability, contradictory internal structure, based on the free choice of life in a
particular community (ethnonational, confessional). Possessing multiple identities,
migrants prefer their own ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic identification
practices. Migration identity, reflecting the involvement in migration processes and
resulting from migration, is embodied in practices such as mutual visits and
communication with relatives / friends from the country of origin, communication
with other migrants, membership in migrant organizations in recipient societies. It
describes principles of identity construction by their migrants in a multicultural
society, as well as the forms of seizure of the Other and possible ways of their
integration into society. It is noted that the involvement of the Other, who determines
his identity through ethnic, cultural, ethnic, religious, racial, gender identity, occurs
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only when his social, political, cultural needs are assured and he has the opportunity
to act in the communicative space together with the representatives of the majority.
The migration processes and sociocultural changes that have occurred over the
past decades in United Europe, the policy of multiculturalism, the relationships of
migrants and refugees with the local population of European countries are analyzed;
it considers meaningful stages of adaptation of migrants to a new socio-cultural
environment and integration processes, the influence of Muslim immigrant
communities on Western European societies, as well as the integration policies
pursued by the governments of the EU member states concerning immigrants from
the countries of the Middle East and Africa; it reveals the weak points of migration
policies, which have caused social and cultural tensions, and actions to overcome the
current situation are suggested.
The thesis also examines the influence of modern migration processes on the
state of social relations, identification practices of Turkish citizens, it also
conceptualizes Islam influences on identification practices, the relationship of
modernization processes and cultural globalization with the policy of multiculturalism.
