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Asylum and Migration in Turkey An Overview of Developments in the Field 1990–2013

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Asylum and Migration in Turkey
An Overview of Developments in the Field 1990–2013


Publisher: Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM)

Volume: 31 pages, pdf

 

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Traditionally Turkey has been perceived as an emigration country, both by others and by herself. In the early 1990s the first scholarly publications on migration to or through Turkey appeared, and especially in the last decade (since 2005) the field has been growing rapidly. In the past decade, more and more scholars have paid attention to aspects of migration coupled to Turkey as a receiving country. Academic attention is about to catch up with reality: The metropolis of Istanbul (which receives a primary attention in this paper) shows multi-ethnic features hosting foreign-borns from all over the world. Nowadays, Turkey is considered a new country of immigration. This working paper’s rational is to provide an overview over some of the most dominant migration patterns to and through Turkey as well as the institutional development in the field of migration and asylum. At the same time, it provides a sort of state-of-the-art of migration research on Turkey as of 2013.