Deconstructing Turkey’s “Open Door” Policy towards Refugees from Syria

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ID15538554
AuthorsBurcu Toğral Koca (0000-0003-1320-948X, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume12
Issue3
Pages209-225
Publication date2015-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMIGRATION LETTERS (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1741-8984 • E-ISSN: 1741-8992
PublisherDewspublication (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.33182/ml.v12i3.275
OpenAlexW2135651008
LanguageEN
Citations received28

Turkey has followed an “open door” policy towards refugees from Syria since the March 2011 outbreak of the devastating civil war in Syria. This “liberal” policy has been accompanied by a “humanitarian discourse” regarding the admission and accommodation of the refugees. In such a context, it is widely claimed that Turkey has not adopted a securitization strategy in its dealings with the refugees. However, this article argues that the stated “open door” approach and its limitations have gone largely unexamined. The assertion is, here, refugees fleeing Syria have been integrated into a security framework embedding exclusionary, militarized and technologized border practices. Drawing on the critical border studies, the article deconstructs these practices and the way they are violating the principle of non-refoulement in particular and human rights of refugees in general

Accommodation · Assertion · Context (archaeology · Economics · Human rights · Internally displaced person · Political economy · Political science · Refugee · Securitization · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Global Security and Public Health · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Peacebuilding and International Security

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