This study focuses on postgraduate studies carried out in higher education institutions in Turkey regarding the migration movements from the Turkic World countries to Turkey, especially after the 1990s, along with globalization. Therefore, the study examines the course of migration movements from the Turkic World to Turkey, which is a new field of study in the literature. Accordingly, the problem of the research is the disciplinary and methodological trend/pattern of migration from the Turkic World to Turkey in postgraduate studies. Thus, the postgraduate studies taken as basis in the study were evaluated with bibliometric analysis and a projection for the future of the field in question was drawn. Within the scope of the research, postgraduate theses (master's and doctoral) in the YÖK (Council of Higher Education) National Thesis Center were accessed. These studies were divided into categories such as year, type (master's/doctoral), university, institute, department, subject, methodological approach, language and nationality of the author, on the basis of bibliometric analysis, and were evaluated within this framework. These categories also constitute the research questions of the study. According to the findings obtained in the study, it was seen that the first postgraduate study on migrations from the Turkic World in Turkey was conducted in 1995, and the last study was conducted in 2023. Of the 32 studies conducted in this date range, four are at the doctoral level and 28 are at the master's level. The prominent findings of the research are that 20 of these studies (62.5%) were prepared by graduate students from the Turkic World and 17 of them (53.1%) were carried out with a methodologically qualitative approach. By evaluating the data obtained in the context of other categories in the study, the future of studies on migration movements from the Turkic World to Turkey was evaluated with a predictive approach and various suggestions were made.
International Migration, Turkic World, Migration Studies, Türkiye, Bibliometric Analysis