Continuity or Change in Turkey’s Mass Migration Policy: From 1989 émigrés to Syrian “guests”
Continuity or Change in Turkey’s Mass Migration Policy: From 1989 émigrés to Syrian “guests”

Author(s): Deniz Genç, N. Aslı Şirin Öner
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Recent History (1900 till today), Labor relations, Welfare systems, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; mass migration; policy; Syrian immigrants; asylum policies; housing; employment;
Summary/Abstract: As a country being a stage for a variety of migratory movements for many years, Turkey, until recently, did not have a comprehensive migration and asylum policy which takes into account of the realities of those movements and responds accordingly. The need for such policy has brought with it the efforts to develop a migration regime of which the new Law on Foreigners and International Protection (LFIP) is an essential element. The factors which played a role in the growing need for a migration and asylum policy are the increasing number of irregular migrants in the country and the deterioration of the Syrian refugee crisis. The lack of a comprehensive migration and asylum policy has loomed large when the country is a stage for mass migration movements.

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