ABSTRACT

The elimination of the small peasantry accelerates to the extent that the capitalist production relation deepens into agriculture and social structure. In this process, peasants become involved in capitalist relations of production by differentiating themselves and migrate to cities at the rate at which they are separated from the rural land. A major part of this population, which has lost its rural livelihoods based on households and migrated to the urban, is reassociated with the rural land through labor. Late-developed capitalized countries such as Turkey are still living through this process vividly. The dissolution of the small peasantry and labor in agriculture takes place within the specific conditions of each region of the country. In this context, the Southeastern Anatolia Region, where pre-capitalist relations and small peasantry are prevalent, is a striking example. In the cities of this region, which receive immigration from their surroundings, despite the lack of infrastructure to absorb unqualified labor force, one of the options for the villagers with little or no land who migrate from the rural land to the urban is agricultural work. Hence, most of seasonal agricultural workers migrated from the countryside and live in the peripheral neighborhoods of the urbans. In other words, they live in urban areas and do seasonal agricultural work in urban and rural areas. In this study, the economic and social dynamics that pushed the migrants to the city to seasonal agricultural work as a result of the dissolution of the small peasantry were tried to be explained. For this purpose, field research was carried out using semi-structured and indepth interview techniques in three neighborhoods where seasonal agricultural workers live intensively in Sanliurfa city center. And the findings of field study was analyzed qualitatively