Researcher: Aksel, Damla Bayraktar
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Publication Metadata only Kins, distant workers, diasporas: constructing Turkey's transnational members abroad(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) N/A; N/A; Aksel, Damla Bayraktar; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 315549This paper analyzes the politics of the Turkish state about Turks abroad as a process of defining the status of and constructing the perceptions about its transnational members. Falling back on transnationalism and diaspora studies, it aims to bring together the policies of the Turkish state regarding emigrants and co-ethnics who have been stranded during the collapse of the empire from which the modern state emerged. From the point of view of the sending state/external homeland, it compares the different trajectories and policies which have been put in place during different periods, and traces the parallel actions which have been taken over the last two decades regarding both constellations. The paper also investigates the way in which the extra-territorial membership is constructed and definedby putting emphasis on its fluidity over time as a result of endogenous and exogenous factors.Publication Metadata only Home state and transnational policies toward civil society: the case of Turkey(Uluslararasi Iliskiler Konseyi Dernegi, 2017) Aksel, Damla Bayraktar; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 315549Turkish transnational civil society movement has started to emerge following the Gastarbeiter movement in the 1960s, and has accelerated following the 1980 coup and the political asylum mobility in its aftermath. Over the past two decades, there have been significant changes in the axis of state-emigrant civil society relations, particularly as a result of the state's changing approach to its citizens living abroad and the newly formulated institutional structures. This study reveals that the transnational practices of the state and emigrant communities are processes that affect each other. The divisions along the lines of ideological, religious and political membership within the civil society deepens with the governments' objective of creating and strengthening the informal lobby in the recent years.Publication Metadata only Two-to-tango in migration diplomacy: negotiating readmission agreement between the EU and Turkey(Brill Academic Publishers, 2014) N/A; Department of International Relations; N/A; İçduygu, Ahmet; Aksel, Damla Bayraktar; Faculty Member; PhD Student; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 207882; 315549Identified as effective and rapid mechanisms against irregular migration by the European Union, Readmission Agreements (RAs) have become one of the major topics in current migration literature. Despite the extensity of the current literature on requesting states, the literature focusing on the requested states remains sparse. Considering that 'it takes two to tango' to agree on, to sign, and to implement the RAs, it is very crucial to frame the positions of the requested states in the negotiation process of RAs. This paper examines the tortuous negotiation process of the RA between the EU and Turkey over the last decade, by primarily focusing on the question of how Turkey, as a non-EU state, has viewed and experienced this process of negotiation.Publication Metadata only Home states and homeland politics: interactions between the Turkish State and its emigrants in France and the United States(Taylor and Francis, 2019) Aksel, Damla Bayraktar; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 315549This book draws on the literatures of transnationalism and diaspora studies to explore the ways in which the policies of emigrant-sending countries have an influence on how emigrants politically engage on issues related to their homelands. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with policy makers, diplomats, bureaucrats, members of civil society and academics in Turkey, France and the United States, it offers a comparison of the engagement of Turkish migrants with political issues in Turkey in periods both before and after home state policies have been constructed with a view to engaging emigrants. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in diaspora and the engagement of migrants with political issues in their countries of origin.Publication Metadata only Turkish migration policies: a critical historical retrospective(Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi, 2013) N/A; Department of International Relations; N/A; İçduygu, Ahmet; Aksel, Damla Bayraktar; Faculty Member; PhD Student; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 207882; 315549As the Turkish state's position on the issue of international migration is being transformed, new questions have arisen about the state's policies on immigration and emigration. These are two issues that have long been seen as separate in migration literature. The aim of this article is to unite these two issues in order to present a retrospective on the Turkish state's responses to the realities of immigration and emigration. We describe the migration patterns in Turkey by focusing on four key periods: a) the two-way immigration and emigration circulation in the early period of modern Turkey; b) the emigration boom since the 1950s; c) the emergence of new migration patterns in the 1980s; and d) the new forms of migration governance employed since the 2000s. By examining these patterns and the state's responses, we aim to analyse the diverging political rationalities of different periods.