Transit Migration: an Unnoticed Area in Ethnomusicology ****************************************************************************************** * Evrim Hikmet Ö?üt ****************************************************************************************** Abstrakt As a result of the expanding human mobilization in the today’s world due to wars, workforc the scope of migration and diaspora studies has increased in many areas. This is also true studies, where a growing body of literature has been produced about these issues. However, mainly on settled communities and their musical productions, such as hybrid genres and for the destination land, this literature does not adequately cover “transit migration”. Trans being a particular type of human mobility, refers to the migration that includes at least steps. This means that transit migrants do not permanently inhabit the land they firstly e but are supposed to stay in this transit country for a while and then continue their journ reach a final destination point. In this article, I deal with this specific type of migrat intense field study on the Chaldean-Iraqi migrant community in Istanbul. The Chaldean comm as a religious minority, is one of the most affected groups in the ongoing situation in Ir after the US invasion in 2003. Turkey functions as a transit country on their way to their destination points, mainly including the US, Canada, and Australia. While dealing with the during the indefinite time period that the participants are in the process of being tempor in a foreign land, the applicability of the theoretical concepts of permanent migration to migration is also discussed. Klíčová slova transit migration; Chaldean-Iraqi migrants; migration studies in ethnomusicology Článek v PDF ke stažení [ URL "LM-780-version1-05_ogut_w.pdf"] Evrim Hikmet Ö?üt [ URL "LM-280.html "]