1st Edition
Forced Migration in Turkey Refugee Perspectives, Organizational Assistance, and Political Embedding
Turkey hosts more refugees than any other country in the world, with forced migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and other countries converging, either with hopes to settle in Turkey or to continue onwards to the European Union (EU).
This volume addresses the specific experiences and trajectories of forced migrants in Turkey in the context of local and national contexts and the future of EU-Turkey relations. It presents the demographics of forced migrants, the biographies and future plans of refugees, and their interactions with civil society, states, and international agencies. A focus is on organized violence and corresponding experiences in countries of origin, during transit, and at current places.
Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative research, this book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of migration, human security, and refugee studies, as well as of sociology, political sciences, and international relations.
PART 1
Introduction: Forced Migration in Türkiye – Refugees’ perspectives, organizational assistance and political embedding
Berna Zülfikar Savci, Ludger Pries, M.Murat Erdogan
1. Trajectories and biographical projects of forced migrants in Turkey: Between first safe harbor and ongoing trouble
Berna Safak Zulfikar Savci, Ludger Pries, Nora Halstenberg
2. Organized violence in life histories of forced migrants in Turkey
Ludger Pries and Nick Linsel
3. Forced Migrant Women in Turkey: Could Turkey be Home for Some?
Helga Rittersberger-Tilic, Berna Safak Zulfikar Savci, Ximena Alba, Michelle Gutstein
4. The normalization of the exception? Dealing with organized violence in biographical narrations of forced migrants in Turkey
Ludger Pries and Nick Linsel
PART 2
5. More than a decade of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Balancing a complex challenge
M. Murat Erdoğan and Nihal Eminoğlu
6. Refugees in A Border City: Facts, Dynamics, and Paradoxes on The Lives of Syrians of Gaziantep After a Decade
Mehmet Nuri Gültekin
7. Securitization of the EU’s migration policy and its effects on the border security policies of Greece and Turkey
Çılga Altunbaş and Fulya Memişoğlu
8. The role of Turkey–EU relations and Turkey-to-Europe emigration experience in the treatment of Syrians in Turkey
Ayhan Kaya
9. The impact of Syrian refugees and irregular migrants on Turkey–EU relations: Decision-makers’ perspectives on the EU–Turkey statement
M. Murat Erdoğan, Nihal Eminoğlu, K. Onur Unutulmaz, Friedrich Püttmann
Conclusion
Biography
Berna Şafak Zülfikar Savcı is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology at Ruhr University Bochum, with a PhD in Demography. She has expertise in development studies topics and currently works as the project coordinator for research on biographical projects of forced migrants. Her specific research interests include forced migration, international migration, and poverty.
Ludger Pries is a Sociologist and Senior Professor in the Department of Social Science at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Since the 1980s he has been doing research and teaching in Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, the USA, and other countries. His research interests include (international comparative) sociology of migration, work and organization, life-course research, transnationalism, and evolutionary sociology.
M. Murat Erdoğan is Director of Mülkiye Migration Research Center at Ankara University and President of IGAM Academy. He worked in Turkish German University and in Hacettepe University as both faculty member and director of Migration Research Centers. Erdoğan is a member of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-Turkey, board member of International Steering Committee (ISC) of Metropolis International, and expert at the Foreign Policy Institute in Turkey.
