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V. Stoyanova and E. Karageorgiou eds. The New Asylum and Transit Countries in Europe During and in the Aftermath of the 2015/2016 Crisis (Brill 2019) p. 115-139.
How have the European Union and the EU Asylum Acquis Affected protection of Forced Migrants in Turkey? An Examination in View of the Turkish Law on Foreigners and International Protection and the EU-Turkey Statement of March 20162019 •
The present chapter examines the interplay between the Turkish asylum laws and the European asylum acquis as well as the EU-Turkey Cooperation in the field of migration. By exploring these issues, the chapter aims to establish how the EU and the EU asylum law and policies have affected Turkish asylum laws and policies, and the protection of forced migrants in Turkey.The chapter consists of three parts. The first provides an overview of the Turkish asylum system by examining the entry of migrants and asylum seekers to Turkey, their access to international protection procedures and the main protection categories provided under the Turkish Law on Foreigners and International Protection. The second part explores the role of the EU and the EU asylum acquis in shaping Turkey’s asylum laws. The third examines the EU-Turkey cooperation in the field of migration by focusing on the EU-Turkey Statement of March 2016, its progress and the legal issues raised by the Statement. Building on these parts, the chapter concludes by addressing the question as to how the EU and the European asylum law and policies have affected protection of forced migrants in Turkey.
International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
The ambiguous architecture of precarity: temporary protection, everyday living and migrant journeys of Syrian refugees2018 •
Millions of Syrians are currently displaced, living without adequate protection and struggling to access residency, rights and citizenship in the broader context of migration governance. Our understanding of migration governance through a focus on Syrian refugees in urban Turkey is telling for what it reveals about international and national commitments to refugee protection and the relations among precarity, refugee everyday living and migrant journeys. Drawing on and contributing to the critical migration and precarity scholarship, we focus on what we call the ambiguous architecture of precarity, where the objectives of providing protection to refugees simultaneously produce forms of precarity and ambiguities for them. We argue that three forms of precarity underscore the experiences of Syrian refugees in Turkey: precarity of status as revealed through the granting of temporary protection rather than legal refugee status; precarity of space as demonstrated through the challenges refugees experience in accessing services and with restricted mobility and; precarity of movement as developed through new border cooperation arrangements and through migrant journeys that are undertaken in search of greater protection and security.
Against the background of the research project on “De-and Re- stabilizations of the European Border Regime”, analyzing the recent political attempts by the EU and its member states to regain control over its borders and the movements of migration after the so-called “European refugee crisis” in 2015, this article discusses Turkey’s role and position within international migration flows and the EU-driven border regime. Reflecting on the recent history of Turkey’s migration and border politics, we argue that academic accounts, which tend to reduce Turkey’s role to a simple extension of the EU border regime, are insufficient to explain the current state of affairs in Turkey. Rather, the article sheds light on the contested and multilayered nature of the Turkish migration regime, which can be partly read as reactions to the European Union, but also as an effect of its own foreign and national policy interests. The outcome is a highly hybrid political formation causing ambiguous legal, social, and political limitations for migrants and refugees, reflected in their journeys and in social and political realities, which are discussed as exemplified in the migratory stories of two migrants.
EU-Turkey Relations and the Migration Issue: practising transactionalism
Edited by Alexandra Prodromidou and Pavlos Gkasis A publication within the EU-financed project 'MIGRATE: CTRL + Enter Europe: Jean Monnet Migrant Crisis Network'2019 •
The Turkish candidacy for European Union (EU) membership is, in many respects, unique. Having been granted the status of a candidate country in 1999 and having begun accession negotiations in 2005, Turkey finds itself further apart from the EU than at any point in the last dozen years. Only one chapter has been provisionally closed, many more are frozen and the prospect of more opening is very remote. In fact, the possibility of a full suspension of negotiations is very real, as recommended by the European Parliament (EP) and as endorsed by certain member-states. This chapter examines the migration and refugee crisis, as well as its aftermath, in light of EU-Turkey relations. It starts off by providing a context to the crisis by discussing the state of play in EU-Turkey relations by 2015 and the series of challenges the two sides were facing at the time. It then moves on to analyse the content of the EU-Turkey migration deal and its aftermath to date. The next section is devoted to an analysis of the state of play and sets out the chapter’s main argument. Although the deal is surviving waves of deterioration in bilateral affairs, it is also indicative of a new, transactional approach in EU-Turkey relations, whereby Turkey becomes a valuable partner for the Union on issues of joint interest (especially those with serious domestic repercussions in EU member states) but is progressively removed from the circle of potential accession states and thus relegated to an EU ‘partner’ on an ad hoc basis. The chapter concludes by discussing the repercussions of the new state of EU-Turkey affairs for both sides.
RESPOND Working Paper Series
Border Management and Migration Controls – Turkey ReportThis report examines the border management and migration control regime in Turkey, analysing its main legal and policy framework as well as the organisations and actors involved in policy implementation. Drawing from the empirical material, the report focuses on pre-entry measures, “at the border” controls, controls within the national territory, and return policy fields. The report aims to understand to what extent, and how, Turkey’s border management and migration control measures have changed from 2011 to 2017, how the changes have influenced policy implementations, and what the main gaps are between the legal frameworks and actual practices. The report also focuses on how relevant (state, non-state and national, local international and supranational) actors interact in implementing measures and what the patterns of cooperation and tensions are among them.
In States, the Law and Access to Refugee Protection Fortresses and Fairness
Access to International Protection - Border Issues in Turkey2017 •
the Horizon 2020 project ‘RESPOND Multilevel Governance of Migration and Beyond’ (770564).
Country Report Working Papers Global Migration: Consequences and Responses Legal & Policy Framework of Migration Governance2018 •
Respond Working Paper series
Turkey – Country Report: Legal and Policy Framework of Migration GovernanceInternational Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) Working Paper
Assessing the Development- Displacement Nexus in Turkey2018 •
VU Amsterdam Migration Law Series
Situation of Readmitted Migrants and Refugees from Greece to Turkey under the EU-Turkey Statement2017 •
Meltem: Journal of the Izmir Mediterranean Academy
Aegean in Motion: The Reasons, Consequences, and Tragedies of Four Distinct Phases of Migration in the Aegean Sea2018 •
CEASEVAL RESEARCH ON THE COMMON EUROPEAN ASYLUM SYSTEM
2018. National Report on Turkey: Patterns of Politicization on Refugees and Policy Responses (co-authored with Ahmet İçduygu)2018 •
Istituto Affari Internazionali
The Refugee Card in EU-Turkey Relations: A Necessary but Uncertain Deal2016 •
Syrian Refugees in Turkey: pathways to precarity, differential inclusion, and negotiated citizenship rights
Syrian refugees in Turkey: pathways to precarity, differential inclusion, and negotiated citizenship rightsAlternatif Politika
Fulya MEMİŞOĞLU & H. Çağlar BAŞOL: TURKISH MEDIA’S RESPONSE TO THE 2015 ‘REFUGEE CRISIS’2019 •
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
The border event in the everyday: hope and constraints in the lives of young unaccompanied asylum seekers in Turkey (JEMS, 2019)2019 •
2017 •
Mediterranean Borders: Frontline Europe in the face of migrant arrivals
Consequences of the Refugee Crisis for Turkey (Özerim & Çetin)2018 •
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3665809
Reception Turkey Country Report Working Papers Global Migration: Consequences and Responses2020 •
Crossing Borders conference proceedings, 7-10.7.2016, Lesvos
The madness of working as a human rights lawyer in times where rights are (treated as) uselessEurope Divided - The National VS Human Security Debate and its Implications for Migrant Policy
Europe Divided - The National VS Human Security Debate and its Implications for Migrant Policy2017 •
Global Migration: Consequences and Responses
Reception: Turkey Country Report2020 •
Crossing Borders Conference Proceedings
: The Middle East Refugee Crisis and the Foundations of Solidarity. p 1362016 •