Europeanization and Turkey: studying irregular migration policy

Abstract

Her research interests are comparative politics, immigration policies and Europeanization. She works on a comparative study of irregular immigration policies in Greece, Spain and Turkey.

The impact of externalized migration governance on Turkey: technocratic migration governance and the production of differentiated legal status

“…The transformation of migration governance in Turkey has been widely discussed, initially in relation to EU conditionality (İçduygu, 2007;Lavenex & Uçarer, 2004;Ozcurumez & Şenses, 2011;Tolay, 2012). While the literature on Turkey-EU relations and foreign policy focus on the mechanisms of policy transfers and explore the bargaining power exercised by third countries such as Turkey (Aras & Mencütek, 2018;İçduygu & Üstübici, 2014), they have put less emphasis on the socio-legal implications.…”

“…Turkey's long-standing candidate-member status and its commitment to adopt the EU acquis have been major anchors for Turkey's cooperation with the EU on the issue of migration and asylum. Immigration legislation and institutionalisation have been mainly discussed in public and policy circles within the context of technicalities of the EU accession process (İçduygu, 2007;Ozcurumez & Şenses, 2011;Özgür & Özer, 2010). As discussed below, this process can also be read as a case of institutionalization of the legal production of migrant illegality through externalization.…”

“…Highlighting the novel aspect of the law, one official from the police department explained the aim of the law as follows: 'The food comes into the body, if it is good [legal] it is digested; if it is bad [illegal], it is thrown away'. 14 While he implies a degree of absorption, reservations from earlier periods have been safeguarded (Ozcurumez & Şenses, 2011). Provisions in the law ensure the principle of non-refoulement, access to asylum and enjoyment of fundamental rights by asylum seekers and refugees.…”

The Governance of International Migration

“…Meanwhile, Turkey's long-standing member status and its commitment to adopting the EU acquis have been major anchors for Turkey's cooperation with the EU on the issue of irregular migration. In this context, legal changes in the field of asylum and immigration in the post-2001 period are commonly called the Europeanization of migration and asylum policies in Turkey (Özgür and Özer 2010;İçduygu 2007;Ozcurumez and Şenses 2011). As in the case of Morocco, issues related to border controls, the resolution of a readmission agreement, and the increasing role played by international organizations in the context of the adoption of the EU acquis on migration and asylum, have been major milestones in the international production of migrant illegality in Turkey.…”

“…This chapter looks at the interaction between the EU migration regime and emerging immigration policy in peripheral contexts. Irregular migration policies in Morocco and Turkey have been the subject of analyses in the context of external dimensions of EU migration control policies (Alami M'chichi 2006;Wunderlich 2010;İçduygu 2007;Ozcurumez and Şenses 2011). One line of research has analysed the export of EU migration control and migration management techniques without necessarily delving into the implications of this expansion for the production of migrant illegality (Boswell 2003;Samers, 2004).…”