Forced Migration in Turkey

Berna Şafak Zülfikar Savcı is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology at Ruhr University Bochum, with a PhD in Demography. She has expertise in development studies topics and currently works as the project coordinator for research on biographical projects of forced migrants. Her specific research interests include forced migration, international migration, and poverty. Ludger Pries is a Sociologist and Senior Professor in the Department of Social Science at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Since the 1980s he has been doing research and teaching in Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, the USA, and other countries. His research interests include (international comparative) sociology of migration, work and organization, life-course research, transnationalism, and evolutionary sociology. M. Murat Erdoğan is Director of Mülkiye Migration Research Center at Ankara University and President of IGAM Academy. He worked in Turkish German University and in Hacettepe University as both faculty member and director of Migration Research Centers. Erdoğan is a member of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-Turkey, board member of International Steering Committee (ISC) of Metropolis International, and expert at the Foreign Policy Institute in Turkey.

PART 1 Introduction: Forced Migration in Türkiye – Refugees’ perspectives, organizational assistance and political embedding 1. Trajectories and biographical projects of forced migrants in Turkey: Between first safe harbor and ongoing trouble 2. Organized violence in life histories of forced migrants in Turkey 3. Forced Migrant Women in Turkey: Could Turkey be Home for Some? 4. The normalization of the exception? Dealing with organized violence in biographical narrations of forced migrants in Turkey PART 2 5. More than a decade of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Balancing a complex challenge 6. Refugees in A Border City: Facts, Dynamics, and Paradoxes on The Lives of Syrians of Gaziantep After a Decade 7. Securitization of the EU’s migration policy and its effects on the border security policies of Greece and Turkey 8. The role of Turkey–EU relations and Turkey-to-Europe emigration experience in the treatment of Syrians in Turkey 9. The impact of Syrian refugees and irregular migrants on Turkey–EU relations: Decision-makers’ perspectives on the EU–Turkey statement