Forced Migration in Turkey: Refugee Perspectives, Organizational Assistance, and Political Embedding

Turkey hosts more refugees than any other country in the world, with forced migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and other countries converging, either with hopes to settle in Turkey or to continue onwards to the European Union (EU).

This volume addresses the specific experiences and trajectories of forced migrants in Turkey in the context of local and national contexts and the future of EU-Turkey relations. It presents the demographics of forced migrants, the biographies and future plans of refugees, and their interactions with civil society, states, and international agencies. A focus is on organized violence and corresponding experiences in countries of origin, during transit, and at current places.

Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative research, this book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of migration, human security, and refugee studies, as well as of sociology, political sciences, and international relations.

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.