Non-Urbanization and Social Dynamics of Violence against Women

Urbanization is a concept that defines the increase in the population living in cities in terms of demographics. In Turkey, the number of individuals living in urban areas increased continuously after the 1950s and reached around 93% as of today. However, urbanization also has economic and social dimensions. Because, rapidly increasing urbanization without sufficient infrastructure and demand generally leads to formation of cities with underlying unemployment, and the emergence of a social structure that is urbanized but not localized, ultimately not being able to integrate with the city. Generally, this social segment tries to survive by settling in the urban suburbs, consists largely of the masses who are not able earn their living with urban-jobs, and who ultimately cannot adopt urbanspecific behaviors, lifestyles and values. Hence, these masses try to survive in the city and with the dominant values of the places they came from, instead of integrating to the city culture, which leads to their alienation to city values, resulting alienation and potential tendencies towards violence due to increasing marginalization.This literature review-based study aims to provide solutions by analyzing the causes of the violence against women, which has recently been increased in our society, in the context of migration, urbanization and poverty phenomenon. Research results reveal the importance of nonurbanization and poverty, as being factors for violence against women.