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Tendency of older adults to leave big cities in the COVID‐19 pandemic: A qualitative regional analysis in Turkey

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  • Ozan Hovardaoğlu
  • Seda Calisir‐Hovardaoğlu

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This study investigates how territorial and age group disparities in implementing COVID‐19 measures in Turkey triggered some of the older adults living in those regions to move to rural settlements and small towns. The direction of this mobility was from urbanized regions to rural regions. Data is collected from 201 older adult participants nationwide through longitudinal qualitative research. A combination of purposive and snowball sampling techniques was used to form the sampling of the research. Chi‐squared test was applied to the collected data and significant correlation values are found between the age groups and the main motives for them leaving the big cities. Findings show that this mobility caused unexpected problems for older adults and contributed to the spread of the virus, but represents a counter‐urbanization tendency in Turkey. Este estudio investiga cómo las disparidades territoriales y por grupos de edad en la aplicación de las medidas para COVID‐19 en Turquía provocaron que algunos de los adultos mayores que vivían en esas regiones se trasladaran a asentamientos rurales y pequeñas ciudades. La dirección de esta movilidad fue de las regiones urbanizadas a las rurales. Se recogieron datos de 201 participantes adultos mayores de todo el país a través de una investigación cualitativa longitudinal. Para obtener la muestra de la investigación se utilizó una combinación de técnicas de muestreo intencional y de bola de nieve. Se usó el test estadístico de Chi‐cuadrado con los datos recogidos y se hallaron valores de correlación significativos entre los grupos de edad y los principales motivos de abandono de las grandes ciudades. Los resultados muestran que esta movilidad causó problemas inesperados a los adultos mayores y contribuyó a la propagación del virus, lo que representa una tendencia contraria a la urbanización en Turquía. 本研究では、トルコにおける新型コロナウイルス感染症対策の実施における、地域や年齢層による相違が、どのように当該地域に住む高齢者の一部が農村集落や小さな町に移住するきっかけとなったのかを検討する。この移動は、都市化された地域が起点で農村地域が終点であった。データは、縦断的な定性的研究において、全国の201名の高齢者の参加者から収集されたものであった。本研究のサンプリングは、目的のあるサンプリングとスノーボールサンプリングの方法を組み合わせて実施した。収集したデータを、カイ二乗検定により分析したところ、年齢層と大都市を離れる主な動機との間に有意な相関を示す値が認められた。知見から、この移動が高齢者に予期せぬ問題を引き起こし、ウイルスの拡散の一因となったことが示されるが、これはトルコにおける反都市化の傾向を表している。

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  • Ozan Hovardaoğlu & Seda Calisir‐Hovardaoğlu, 2023. "Tendency of older adults to leave big cities in the COVID‐19 pandemic: A qualitative regional analysis in Turkey," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(3), pages 585-605, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:15:y:2023:i:3:p:585-605
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12561
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