[Bilimsel Haber] Call for Papers 10th Turkish Migration Studies (TurkMiS) Workshop

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Call for Papers

10th Turkish Migration Studies (TurkMiS) Workshop

‘The migration transition of Turkey – from an emigration to an immigration
country. New realities, new policy challenges’

28 March 2014, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey



Conveners

Franck Düvell, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University
of Oxford, UK

M. Murat Erdogan, Hacettepe University Migration and Politics
Research Center (HUGO), Ankara, Turkey



Turkey goes through a long period of relative though still volatile
stability, economic growth, a changing role in the world system and some
socio-political transformations. The country already ranks 17th on the
global economic order and is suggested to follow the path of the BRICS
countries. These developments also impact on Turkey’s position on the
global migration order.

Already for some years it is acknowledged that Turkey attracts significant
numbers of visitors and immigrants; indeed, there is evidence that Turkey
has already transformed from an emigration to a net immigration country
meaning that more people immigrate than emigrate. Also over the years,
inflows have diversified and comprise more non-traditional (i.e. non-ethnic
Turkish or other Muslim) migrants of different types and categories and
refugees from neighbouring and distant countries.

The Turkish administration has already acknowledged this and in April 2013
introduced a new migration law and a new authority, the General Directorate
for Foreigners and International Protection to prepare for the related
challenges. In the meantime more needs to be known about immigration to
Turkey, such as exact magnitude, drivers in sending and receiving context,
legal conditions (e.g. Turkey’s visa policy and immigration law reform),
mechanisms and processes that facilitate immigration, legal status, spatial
distribution, mobility patterns, economic activities and performance,
social mobility and its determinants, interaction with the host society and
its institutions and patterns of integration, welfare needs et cetera.

>From a western perspective, however, Turkey is still often perceived an
emigration country. This view dates back to past large-scale outflows of
labour migrants to Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and other countries
during the 1950-70s, family driven migration during the 1980s and refugee
flows during the 1990s. It neglects that Turkish labour and other migration
has not only hugely diversified and rather goes to other destinations in
the Gulf, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Middle East and
North African (MENA) countries but also mostly comprises of highly skilled
migrants. Finally, it ignores that Turkey has also always also been a
country of immigration, though mostly of ethnic Turks from neighbouring
countries.

On the occasion of the 10th TurkMiS workshop we call for papers on
contemporary immigration to Turkey to cover issues such as immigration,
legal status, integration, economic performance, welfare situation and
needs, social interaction and related policies, in particular we are
interested in

-          Different types of economic and labour migration (circular,
temporary, shuttle, permanent)

-          Highly-skilled migrants, e.g. university lecturers, businessmen
and women, specialists etc

-       Immigrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia (e.g. Georgian
construction workers, Armenian [female] immigrants, Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs,
Kirgiz etc)

-          Domestic workers, as from Moldova or elsewhere

-          International service providers

-          Ethnic Turks from Germany and elsewhere (first and second
generation)

-          German, Dutch, British and other retirees; Russian and Ukrainian
migrants

-          Pilot migrants like those on tourist visa as from Morocco or Iran

-          Iranian, Iraqi and Afghan Diasporas

-          Bi-national marriage migration or foreign wives accompanying
Turkish return migrants

-          Stranded ‘transit’ migrants

-          East and West African immigrants like street vendors and
traders, labourers or sportsmen

-          International students

-          Immigration, visa and integration policies

-          Immigration and international relations

-          Perception, reception of responses to immigration to Turkey

-          Political interest and participation of migrant communities

-          as well as the themes mentioned above.

Case studies should ideally (a) be set within the wider context of mobility
and migration, (b) refer to a certain theoretical framework and (b) be
research-based.

Please send abstracts responding to the above criteria and outlining the
main findings and arguments to franck.duvell at compas.ox.ac.uk.

This one-day workshop shall accommodate four panels of 3-4 short 15 minute
presentations followed by a discussion, hence 12 to 16 papers.

The workshop will target a mixed academic and policy audience.

Output

Papers of suitable quality will be published as special issue of ‘Insight
Turkey’.

Funding

Some funding is available to cover some but probably not all of the
contributors’ travel and accommodation (max. 1 night) expenses
(availability of funds depends on how many contributors come from Ankara,
Turkey or abroad); lunch and dinner is provided. We will seek further
sponsoring but ask applicants in their application to indicate their needs.

Time frame

-          Deadline for abstracts    6 February

-          Notification:                       12 February

-          Full draft papers               18 March

On TurkMiS

The Turkish Migration Studies Network (TurkMiS) was set up in 2009; it is
convened by Franck Düvell, senior researcher at the Centre on Migration,
Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, UK. TurkMiS comprises of a
core group of researchers and PhD students at Oxford university, in London
and generally the south of the UK as well as a wider network of
contributors and subscribers across 15 countries, currently around
80. TurkMiS organises two workshops per years, so far all in Oxford, holds
panels at international conferences, as at the 2013 Metropolis conference
or the 2012 UNHCR-Academia conference in Istanbul, co-organised the
‘Turkish migration – the next 50 years’ conference in London in 2012,
frequently addresses events such as the British-Turkish High-Level Forum
‘Tatlidil’ and provides evidence or input to policy as parliamentary
hearings in the UK, the Bureau for Asylum and Migration in Ankara and
IOM/Turkey. TurkMiS also maintains a website (
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/research/dynamics/turkish-migration-studies-group/),
an annual newsletter and a google news group.
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