Post-Immigration Policies in Turkey: Integration versus Harmonization
Post-Immigration Policies in Turkey: Integration versus Harmonization

Author(s): Gülay Uğur Göksel
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Civil Society, Public Law, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; migration; immigration; policy; integration; harmonization; law; policy; NGO;
Summary/Abstract: Turkey has been perceived and studied as an emigration country for decades in the policy and the academic circles. However, due to its growing economy, geopolitical location, and EU accession process, Turkey is slowly turning into an immigrant receiving country (Kirisci, 2009; Icduygu et al., 2014 and Tolay, 2012). “From the very first waves of Iranians (after the 1979 revolution) and Iraqis (in 1988 and 1991) to the much diversified migratory field of the early twenty-first century (refugees, illegal migrants, circular migrants, transit migrants of different origins), Turkey has become a country of large-scale, continuous and complex immigration” (Tolay, 2012, p.2).

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