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    Migration and transformation: multi-level analysis of migrant transnationalism
    (Springer Netherlands, 2012) Sert, Deniz; Pitkänen, Pirkko; Department of International Relations; İçduygu, Ahmet; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 207882
    People’s transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in today’s world. The focus of this book lies in the complex and multi-level processes of migrant transnationalism in four transnational spaces: India-UK, Morocco-France and Turkey-Germany and Estonia-Finland. The main question is, how people’s activities across national borders emerge, function, and change, and how are they related to the processes of governance in increasingly complex and interconnected world? The book is based on the findings of a three-year research project TRANS-NET which brough together internationally acknowledged experts from Europe, Asia and Africa. As no single discipline could investigate all the components of the topic in question, the project adopted a multi-disciplinary approach: among the contributors, there are sociologists, policy analysts, political scientists, social and cultural anthropologists, educational scientists, and economists. The chapters show that people’s transnational linkages and migration across national boundaries entail manifold political, economic, social, cultural and educational implications. Although political-social-economic-educational transformations fostered by migrant transnationalism constitute the main topic of the book, the starting assumption is that the large-scale institutional and actor-centred patterns of transformation come about through a constellation of parallel processes. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012.
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    Afghan migration through Turkey to Europe: seeking refuge, forming diaspora, and becoming citizens
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018) N/A; Department of International Relations; N/A; İçduygu, Ahmet; Karadağ, Sibel; Faculty Member; Researcher; Department of International Relations; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A; 207882; N/A
    This paper aims to investigate the Afghan-Turkish-European region migration system in light of migration system theory, which provides a comprehensive framework by asking the question of how a set of linkages including some macro-, meso- and micro-level variables relate to the larger context of migratory settings. Relating the roles of various structures, institutions and networks to the operation of the social, political and economic relationships, it seeks to analyze the dynamics of Afghan migration heading to Turkey and Europe in a historically contextualized way. The paper argues that one must focus on the root causes of flows, which are related to the presence of fragility of the Afghan state together with the continuation of flows via networks enabling the maintenance of migrants' links to home, transit and destination countries.
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    Demographic mobility and Turkey: migration experiences and government responses
    (Duke University Press, 2004) N/A; Department of International Relations; İçduygu, Ahmet; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 207882
    Turkey's transformation during the course of the twentieth century into a nation of all kinds of migration is one of the most significant features of its history. Currently migration, both internal and international, is of increasing local and global importance. We can conclude that everything depends on implementing an integrated and consistent policy designed to govern and properly manage migration. The essentials for this management are orderliness, protection, integration, and cooperation. Turkey and other countries need to (1) develop a set of measures to manage migration in an orderly manner, (2) provide an appropriate capability for protection and for dealing with disorderly movements, (3) provide an environment conducive to integration, and (4) engage in dialogue and cooperation with all involved parties and countries. If a management-based pragmatism directs all three main actors of any migration process-sending and receiving (or transit) units or countries, and migrants-there are promising approaches to the dilemma of migration. A comprehensive management strategy, which is holistic and proactive rather than partial and reactive, appears to offer an integrated set of solutions to the complex sets of problems posed by migration movements. Whatever the answer to the dilemmas of migration between countries or within a country, there are consequences and responsibilities for the governments of sending, transiting, and receiving areas or countries, for the migrants and their families, and for the international community and its representative bodies.
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    Rethinking transit migration in Turkey: reality and re-presentation in the creation of a migratory phenomenon
    (Wiley, 2012) N/A; Department of International Relations; Department of Sociology; İçduygu, Ahmet; Yükseker, Hatice Deniz; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; Department of Sociology; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 207882; N/A
    Discussions of transit migration in Europe and its peripheries are not simply descriptions of an existing reality, but to some extent also a part of the process of constructing that reality in such a way that discursive practices enable policy statements to conceptualise and talk about this phenomenon. The main goal of this paper is to explore this process through the politicisation of transit migration in Europe, with a particular focus on Turkey. The essay first documents the irregular and transit migration experience of Turkey in the last thirty years with the help of several data sets. It particularly emphasises that there is a reality of transit migration in Turkey, but that there also exists other forms of irregular labour migration. The paper focuses on transit migration in Europe in the next section. It draws attention to the rather ironic fact that, while most European countries have adopted a range of restrictive control systems against incoming migrant flows, especially in the wake of September 11, their economies have been able to absorb thousands of irregular migrants. An important consequence of the economisation and securitisation of the European international migratory regime has been the politicisation of transit migration, precipitating an obsession with transit migration on the peripheries of the continent. Drawing on the insights from this discussion on politicisation of transit migration, in the following section, the paper examines the way in which transit migration in Turkey has been approached in Europe in the context of the country's accession negotiation process with the European Union
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    The politics of irregular migratory flows in the Mediterranean Basin: Economy, mobility and 'illegality'
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007) N/A; Department of International Relations; İçduygu, Ahmet; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 207882
    Because of the irregular migration flows and use of irregular labour in their economies, most Mediterranean countries of southern Europe face administrative battles over the issue of so-called migration management. The main aim of this article is to elaborate how several countries of the northern Mediterranean Basin have experienced irregular migration flows in the past decade. Particular attention is devoted to the process ill which, when economies are in need of labour, international labour flows might be inevitable even if the related rhetoric and policies towards immigration are unsympathetic. This is debated here over the triad of economy, mobility and 'illegality'.
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    After Gallipoli: empire, nation and diversity in multicultural Turkey and Australia
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) Jakubowicz, Andrew; Department of International Relations; İçduygu, Ahmet; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 207882
    Gallipoli has played a critical role in the formation of national identity, and remains a significant part of contemporary identities for both Turkey and Australia.1 This chapter explores the ways in which the development of a racialised or ethno-culturally bound modernity in Australia and Turkey has followed a similar path, notwithstanding the very great differences in the histories of the countries, their political geographies, and their contemporary challenges. However real and important such differences may be, the struggle to create a state that can encompass diversity while claiming singularity offers a shared contradiction. As Bacek Ince has observed in her study of Turkey’s struggle with citizenship and identity, the formation of a fully republican citizenship requires the assertion of ‘constitutional patriotism’, where membership of the nation and full participation can accommodate cultural and linguistic pluralism.2 The challenges for Australia are not dissimilar.
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    Turks in Europe: migration flows, migrant stocks and demographic structure
    (Cambridge Univ Press, 2013) Fassmann, Heinz; Department of International Relations; İçduygu, Ahmet; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 207882
    Presented here is an overview of migration flows and demographic structures of Turks in Europe over the past 50 years. Large-scale labour migration from Turkey to Europe occurred between 1961 and 1974. After that, it gave way to family migration, which today has more or less ended. Recently, there is slightly more emigration than immigration from the European point of view. Thus, stable migrant stocks developed in the receiving countries, especially Germany, Austria, France, and the Netherlands. The migrant stocks lag in many respects behind developments in the receiving countries, yet nonetheless they slowly but surely adapt to these. Despite their low status and feelings of exclusion, most Turkish immigrants are content with their lot and do not plan to leave their new homes in Europe.
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    Negotiating mobility, debating borders: migration diplomacy in Turkey-EU relations
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) N/A; Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; İçduygu, Ahmet; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 207882; 238439
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    Decentring migrant smuggling: reflections on the Eastern Mediterranean route to Europe
    (Routledge, 2021) N/A; Department of International Relations; İçduygu, Ahmet; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 207882
    Mostly embedded in the debates on irregular migration, the first-generation migrant smuggling research, which developed in the 1990s, has long been limited by its conventional state-centric criminality-based focus. This article, inspired by the second and most recent generation of scholarly research on the issue, over the last decade, offers new thoughts and empirical perspectives for transcending those limitations. The second generation of migrant smuggling research is an attempt at decentring for a better understanding and framing of migrant smuggling that arose from critiques of the first-generation studies. This critical perspective challenges the dominant accounts and moves scholarship on the issue toward an examination of the discursive and legal processes of states that criminalise migrant smuggling, highlighting the significance of understanding the perceptions and experiences of a wide range of actors. Drawing on the findings of fieldwork conducted in Turkey and its neighbourhood over the last 20 years, this article critically assesses and decentres the current state of knowledge about migrant smuggling in Europe’s south-eastern periphery. The study finds that migrant smuggling is highly complex because of its embeddedness in socio-institutional and transnational environments, which constantly affect both migrants’ and smugglers’ risk perceptions and coping strategies, causing incredibly dynamic migration trajectories.
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    Introduction: Syrian refugees – facing challenges, making choices
    (Wiley, 2019) N/A; Department of International Relations; İçduygu, Ahmet; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 207882
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