Public Services for Asylum Seekers in Turkey Within the Perspective of New Migratory Movements
Public Services for Asylum Seekers in Turkey Within the Perspective of New Migratory Movements

Author(s): Tülin Canbay
Subject(s): Politics, Geography, Regional studies, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Labor relations, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Migration Studies, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; migration; asylum seekers; public services; education; health; Syrian refugees;
Summary/Abstract: Since the beginning of humanity, countless number of people have had to leave their places and homelands due to various reasons such as climate conditions, natural disasters, wars, economic crises, human rights violations, and security. Unfortunately, this international migratory movements still continue. Due to its geographical location, Turkey lies between unstable and poor countries on its eastern borders and stable and wealthy countries on its western borders. For this reason, it is both a transition and a target country for asylum seekers and refugees (tbmm.gov.tr, 2010). Thus, Turkey has become an important actor in terms of global migration in the last two decades, and while it was a source country before, now it has become a `target` and `transit country`.

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