İZMİR'DE GECEKONDU MAHALLESİNDE YAŞAYAN KADINLARIN EVLİLİK, BOŞANMA VE ATAERKİLLİK ANLAYIŞI: EŞREFPAŞA MAHALLESİ ÖRNEĞİ.

After the labour shortage in urban centres due to the mechanisation and rapid industrialisation in rural area the most significant migration situation was seen in Turkey in the 1950s. With the migrations to the big cities, migrant groupsbuilt shelters with one or two rooms, secretly, and mostly overnight, on public or private lands, without obtaining a building permit, to solve the housing problem. These structures were added to the silhouettes of cities over time and took their place in social life as 'squatter'. Families who migrated to the city maintained their traditional gender perception and roles, which are evident in rural areas, in squatters. The study aims to understand the view of marriage, divorce and patriarchy among women living in squatters and to reveal the factors affecting this view. In this context, face-to-face interviews were conducted with a total of 21 female participants between the ages of 18-65 living in the Eşrefpaşa neighbourhood in İzmir. As a result of the analyses, the understanding of marriage, divorce and patriarchy of women living in squatters was examined over four different main categories which are life before marriage, reasons for marriage, divorce, and patriarchy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]