The recent crisis in Evros brought back to the fore the issue of immigration and Turkey’s role in its instrumentalization. The EU-Turkey Statement has not had the expected outcomes. Rather it showed that prevention policies and the outsourcing of migration management strengthens transit countries such as Turkey, without resulting in a a steady reduction in […]
This policy brief provides an outline of the prospects for and challenges to integration of international protection beneficiaries and applicants in mainland Greece, based on emerging research findings. It focuses on three policy areas, which are key to social and economic integration: (1) labour market; (2) healthcare and social welfare services; and (3) education and training. Structural factors, such as […]
The second issue of 2016 of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies is available online now. This issue includes a wide variety of articles on a number of relevant themes, including Syrian refugees in Turkey, by Ayselin Yıldız & Elif Uzgören. Other timely pieces on Turkey are contributed by Ayhan Kaya, who wrote on The Alevi-Bektashi order in Turkey: […]
Triandafyllidou, A. and Dimitriadi, A. (2014) ‘Deterrence and Protection in the EU’s Migration Policy’, 49, 4, pp. 146-163 (December 2014), first published online in September 2014, The International Spectator, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2014.956280 EU migration and asylum policy is facing tough challenges at the southern borders of the Union as migration and asylum pressures rise, fuelled by political instability and […]
