Securitization of migration : the case of Turkey

Abstract

Among many other things, globalization has paved the way for the promotion and acceleration of migratory movements all around the world. European states, where migrants were welcomed especially after 1960s, started to implement restricted migration policies from 1980s onwards. The Europeanization of migration policies was accompanied by the development of a securitized perception of migration where migrants were stigmatized as threats to political, internal, cultural and economic unity of their host country. The European Union not only adopts and implements policies that would produce and strengthen securitized perceptions of migration but also exports them to candidate states in the form of acquis communautaire.