ABSTRACT
Societal life emerged from people's need to solve their common problems together. Interactions among the people make it possible for a society to meet their economic, social, cultural, and administrative needs. Societies are dynamic constitutions and structures and change is their own most important characteristic; migration can be considered as one of the indications of societal change (Kağitçibaşi, 2003b; Yalçin, 2004). The urbanization process that started concurrently with the industrialization process can be seen clearly through the changes in a society's economic and social structure. The main reason behind migration that occurs from small town to large cities is the rising demand for the work force in the urban areas. Migration from villages to metropolitan centers can be considered as one of the requirements of industrialization, as well as a symbol of modernization process (Kağitçibaşi 2003a; Tezcan, 2000). In Turkey, rural to urban migrants are generally seen as a group of non-city dwellers, and their integration into urban society is considered to be the
only way to solve the problems that arise from the migration process. It also could be said that migrants' integration into the cities are directly connected with their adaptation skills (Tezcan, 1996).
