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Temporariness, permanence and circularity: Relationship of an immigrant with the Memories and Space via Literary Work
No full textMetamorphosis of educational understanding: Temporary Integration regarding Syrians in Turkey
Full text linkpeer reviewedThe integration of refugees in Turkey has been realized in the field with the help of DGMM (Directorate General on Migration Management), Kızılay and UNHCR mainly, and by many more international and non-governmental organizations that have supported refugees by answering their short-term needs such as giving them cards for shopping, clothes, preparing them for winter (“winterization”) and providing educational assistance. I conducted 15 interviews with state officials, various NGOs and a few refugees. During my research many interesting points about integration policies (to-be-formed) at the moment in Turkey were discovered. One interesting finding was that the state officials do not like to use the word “integration”, as it is reminiscent of the way Turkish migrant workers were treated in Germany, where assimilation and integration were understood as the same concept. I use the term “temporary integration” for the case of all refugees, but this paper will focus mostly on the Syrians’ case. Within the context of temporariness, this paper’s central attention will be the educational integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey. I argue in the paper that the temporariness and the nostalgia with the Ottoman past are two main elements mostly present regarding the educational integration of Syrians in Turkey
Women Being Sold in a Religious Affair: Forced Religious Marriage and Mothers who are Children in Turkey
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EU as a Declining Normative Power and Turkey as a Declining Democracy: What does the Readmission Agreement tell us about a Global Approach to Migration and the Roles and Interactions of these Actors?
No full textReadmission Agreement has been criticized by many parties not only because of the fact that EU did not want to take the refugees but also because most of the actors thought that Turkey is not capable of handling the numbers while some others suggested that Turkey does not meet the bare minimum of democratic credentials to be able to look after the refugees, after all it is seen that Turkey is not treating its own citizens in with a just approach. In this paper, I would like to start with a brief background to what Turkey had done in order to comply with the EU Acquis till now and what the government’s weaknesses have been regarding this process. Why was the success of enactment of Act on Foreigners and International Protection shadowed by the open door policy towards the Syrian refugees and why did the state let many of the refugees pass to Greece although the officials were well aware that there might have been many deaths? The readmission agreement, on the other hand, was signed on 26th of March 2016 and it had many implications. It also had conditions as it was a typical carrot and stick policy of the EU, but it also led the relationship to become more interest based while the norms and ideas on solidarity and creativity have lost their significance. There is a great loss in terms of the normative power of the EU and there are great losses in terms of how democracy was used functionally by the Turkish government and this has manifested itself in the Readmission Agreement in the clearest way. After the background and perspectives from both sides, I suggest that it is a loss-loss game rather than a win-win situation, moreover, it is not the story of an empire that tells Turkey what to do or it is not the Turkish republic that follows the democratic path but it has become the clash of collapsing empires, an anachronistic way of dealing with a crisis. Finally, I will finish with policy suggestions to both sides of this dilemma as far as my theoretical background allows me
Temporary migration and temporary integration: Canada and the UK in a comparative perspective
Full text linkThis thesis aims to compare and contrast the temporary migration policies of the UK and
Canada between 1997 and 2014. These policies in the UK include the Seasonal Agricultural
Worker Programme (SAWS), the Sector Based Scheme (SBS), domestic migrant workers and
the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP). The policies examined in Canada are the
Seasonal Agricultural Worker Programme (SAWP), the Temporary Foreign Worker
Programme (TFWP), the Low-Skilled Migrant Programme, the High-Skilled Migrant
Programme (HSMP) and the Live-in Caregiver Programme. In order to examine these
programmes, the websites of the CIC, Annual Reports to the Parliament on Migration, policy
papers, public debates in media, fact sheets, and briefing papers have been examined, as
well as scholarly articles. Policy changes have been scrutinized in order to understand how
the politics of immigration had an effect on the migration and integration policies. Beyond
these documents, the main method has been to carry out an analysis of 51 (27 in Canada, 24
in the UK) semi-structured, open-ended interviews with policy-makers, politicians, migrant
organizations (advocacy, services), immigrant lawyers, migration experts/scholars and
think-tanks. It is argued in this thesis that regardless of the history of integration in a
country (i.e. whether or not it is a ‘settlement’ or a ‘guest-worker’ country) it is possible to
see that the temporary migration policies and their consequences resemble each other in
different contexts, such as in the UK and Canada. These results mostly emerge from the fact
that these policies are employer-driven. In order to counteract the logic of these policies
there is a need to think about integration as a temporary phenomenon. Only this way can
the migrant workers be empowered within this inherent inequality exacerbated by these
programmes and what these programmes create in terms of working conditions and rights
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