Introduction

Abstract

Migration cinema, which is based on the movement in a new area opened outside the borders of the national cinema, which is formed by the homogenization of the common culture lived within national borders, takes the interaction created by cultural encounters in its center. Based on the transitions and encounters between the homeland of departure and the new country reached, the studies on theorizing of migration cinema, which is based primarily on the country border and then on cultural interaction, have also been diversified based on these two concepts. Despite a meaning that has become independent from its origin and development process in today's global system and that includes the production, distribution and screening stages of the cinema industry with the influence of technological developments; The concept of transnational cinema characterizes immigration and immigrant cinema.
Although cinematic transnationalism has come to encompass an internationality stemming from the multi-component conditions inherent in film production, transnational cinema studies continue to progress by preserving the thematic emphasis. Transnational cinema is the on-screen representation of real transnational processes and experiences of migration and exile, and is concerned with a broad field that encompasses phenomena that are certainly more interesting in their differences than in their similarities. The last decade, in which the subject of transnational cinema has been intensively addressed in many film and media schools and cinema studies, has shown that the discussion of the transnational field also brings the issue of the future of national cinemas. This field, which has been expanding and transforming with various scientific studies, is evolving towards "post-national" cinema by including national cinemas, which are gradually falling off the agenda under the influence of the dominant mainstream cinema together with neoliberal policies and globalization.
In this special issue of Göç Magazine devoted to Göç and Cinema, there are studies that deal with the relationship between migration and cinema from various aspects.