The relationship between ‘foreign’ and ‘immigration and asylum’ policy is complex and has significant consequences beyond these policy areas. Despite their ever increasing importance, migration and refugee studies have been rarely tackled... more
The relationship between ‘foreign’ and ‘immigration and asylum’ policy is complex and has significant consequences beyond these policy areas. Despite their ever increasing importance, migration and refugee studies have been rarely tackled within the foreign policy dimension of state’s responses, in particular regarding refugee crisis. This paper both demonstrates the importance for and impact of foreign policy orientations on immigration and asylum policies. It questions how ‘foreign’ policy and ‘asylum’ policy are intertwined and generate differences in coping with the mass influx with a focus on the Syrian refugee crisis and Turkey’s policy responses. We argue that assertive foreign policy of Turkey, particularly willingness to be the actor ‘establishing the order’ in the Middle East’ which led to the ‘open-door’ and humanitarian asylum policy at the initial stages of refugee flow. However, the isolation of Turkish foreign policy along with the increase in the numbers of refugees ...
Throughout the history; Temporary protection has played a key role both in management of migration flows and in protection of the persons who were forced to leave their countries due to such reasons as armed conflict, violation of human... more
Throughout the history; Temporary protection has played a key role both in management of migration flows and in protection of the persons who were forced to leave their countries due to such reasons as armed conflict, violation of human rights, widespread violence and natural disaster. And its role is still relevant. More than 2.7 million Syrian nationals are under temporary protection regime. Though temporary protection has affected lives and legal status of millions, there is no legal document which defines and regulates it with mandatory provisions in line with international law. This creates a lacunae on temporary protection in international law. As a result of such lacunae in law; several States have made differing arrangements on qualifications, rights and obligations of temporary protection beneficiaries as well as period and expiry of temporary protection. In light of these issues; this article seeks answers to the following questions: ‘what is temporary protection?’ and ‘what are the international rules of law regulating temporary protection?’. This article will seek to specify elements of temporary protection regime in line with international law by means of discussing the concerned questions.
