Göçün Güvenlikleştirilmesi Bağlamında Bulgaristan’ın Suriyeli Göçmenlere Yönelik Politikası
Bulgaria’s Policy towards Syrian Migrants in the Context of Securitization of Migration

Summary/Abstract: The studies on ‘security-migration’ nexus has increased with being perceived as a security threat of the international migrations in the post-Cold War period. The Copenhagen School as a critical security approach in the context of International Relations Theories has contributed to understand the subject how migrations have been securitized specifically. From this point of view, the relation between migration and security policies of Bulgaria is going to be analyzed during period of Syrian Civil War. As known, following the beginning of Syrian Civil War plenty of Syrians have started to migrate towards Western European countries through Turkey. Bulgaria as a transit country has constructed this migration wave that she has never seen before as a security threat by securitizing it rapidly. The main scope of this study is to analyze Bulgaria’s policies towards Syrian migrants and this securitization process from the multidimensional perspective.

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