Turkish emigration and its implications for the sending and receiving countries

Abstract

Social researchers have dealt with the effect of international migration at three different levels: sending countries, receiving countries and migrants. Generally speaking, the tendency has been to address this issue from a rather limited perspective, focusing largely on the receiving countries, sometimes on the sending countries, and occasionally on the migrants themselves, but only rarely on these three actors of migratory flows together. Some refocusing would therefore seem to be in order. We need to know more than we do about the consequences of migration on the individual countries (both sending and receiving) and on migratory systems in general. This current study is an effort of this type, although it also focuses on a single country case – Turkey – but locates it in the wider context of a migration system that relates to the European migratory regime