TRANSFORMATION OF MIGRATION POLICIES IN POLAND AND TURKEY IN THE EU ACCESSION PROCESS: EUROPEANIZED AND/OR SECURITIZED?
TRANSFORMATION OF MIGRATION POLICIES IN POLAND AND TURKEY IN THE EU ACCESSION PROCESS: EUROPEANIZED AND/OR SECURITIZED?

Summary/Abstract: Poland and Turkey traditionally have been known as source countries for migration to the European countries until the recent decades. Recently, both countries have been gradually turning into transit and target countries. Due to the geopolitical location of the two countries for migration routes, Poland and Turkey will be the key “gatekeeper” countries in the Eastern borders of the EU in case of Turkey’s membership to the EU. In this process, as Poland has experienced, Turkey will be subject to Europeanization and related securitization of its migration policies in accordance with EU conditionality. However, as concluded from the Polish case, the pace of Europeanization and related securitization is likely to depend on the strength of EU membership perspective for Turkey. In this framework, this article explores Europeanization and EUization, in other words policy Europeanization, and securitization in the transformation of migration policies in Poland and Turkey in the accession process. In this regard, a comparative analysis is made regarding the process of adopting to the accession requirements on issues of visa policy, border controls, and “illegal” immigration.

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