Journals / İktisat ve Sosyal Bilimlerde Güncel Araştırmalar / 2017 / Cilt: 1 - Sayı: 2
Administrative and Institutional Capacity Building in the Framework of Turkey’s Changing Migration Paradigm
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- 123–164
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Abstract
Migration, redirected to Anatolia with the decline of the Ottoman Empire, went on for many years as a result of the early Republican policy to increase the population suffering from countless wars. Apart from these migrants and temporary asylum-seekers, Turkey was hardly deemed as a “receiving country”; on the contrary, it was rather in a “sending country” position exporting migrant workers to various European countries in the aftermath of the World War II. Regarding “irregular migration” movements emerging after the end of the Cold War, Turkey was a “transit country” for a long period of time. In recent years, however, it has remarkably become a “receiving country” after the Arab Spring and the situation in Syria, maintaining its position as a transit country as well. Nevertheless, the Turkish administrative and institutional infrastructure and the overall public perception are built on the paradigm of “transit country”. The evolution of this paradigm into “receiving country” is a new phenomenon. Therefore, it is required to adopt a new outlook aligned with this new paradigm and develop a diversified set of policies in the upcoming period.
Özet
Osmanlı İmparatorluğunun çöküş sürecine girmesi ile Anadolu’ya yönelen göç, Cumhuriyetin kurulmasından sonra da savaşlarla azalan nüfusu artırmak maksatlı politikanın sonucu olarak uzun yıllar sürmüştür. Söz konusu göçmenler ve geçici sığınmacılar dışında Türkiye “hedef ülke” olarak görülmemiş; aksine İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrası Avrupa’nın çeşitli ülkelerine göçmen işçi gönderen “kaynak ülke” konumunda olmuştur.