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Turkey, Migration and the EU, ISBN 978-3-937816-94-4, Hamburg University Press, Hamburg, Pp A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Paçacı Elitok, Seçil; Straubhaar, Thomas Book Part Conclusion Provided in Cooperation with: Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) Suggested Citation: Paçacı Elitok, Seçil; Straubhaar, Thomas (2012) : Conclusion, In: Paçacı Elitok, Seçil; Straubhaar, Thomas (Ed.): Turkey, migration and the EU, ISBN 978-3-937816-94-4, Hamburg University Press, Hamburg, pp. 259-270 This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/61474 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. 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Available open access in the Internet at: Hamburg University Press – http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de PURL: http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/HamburgUP/HWWI5_Elitok_Migration Archive Server of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek – http://deposit.d-nb.de ISBN 978-3-937816-94-4 (printed version) ISSN 1865-7974 (printed version) © 2012 Hamburg University Press, publishing house of the Hamburg State and University Library Carl von Ossietzky, Germany The contents are available under the terms of an open content licence of the type Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Germany (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)“(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/de). In essence, this licence allows to freely use the content, but not change it and only for non commercial purposes and only under the condition of the usual rules of citation. This publication contains figures. 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Printing house: Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ew-gmbh.de Cover design: Benjamin Guzinski, Hamburg Cover illustration: “Migrant”, courtesy of Alessandro Gatto Table of Contents List of Figures 7 List of Tables 8 Acknowledgement 9 Introduction 11 Seçil Paçacı Elitok and Thomas Straubhaar Demography and Migration in Transition: Reflections on EU-Turkey Relations 19 Ahmet İçduygu and Ayşem Biriz Karaçay Turkey’s “Critical Europeanization”: Evidence from Turkey’s Immigration Policies 39 Juliette Tolay Turkey’s New Draft Law on Asylum: What to Make of It? 63 Kemal Kirişçi Is Migration Feminized? 85 A Gender- and Ethnicity-Based Review of the Literature on Irregular Migration to Turkey Gülay Toksöz and Çağla Ünlütürk Ulutaş Turkey in the New Migration Era: Migrants between Regularity and Irregularity 113 Sema Erder and Selmin Kaşka Causes and Consequences of the Downturn in Financial Remittances to Turkey: A Descriptive Approach 133 Giulia Bettin, Seçil Paçacı Elitok and Thomas Straubhaar Table of Contents Bordering the EU: Istanbul as a Hotspot for Transnational Migration 167 Barbara Pusch Emigration of Highly Qualified Turks 199 A Critical Review of the Societal Discourses and Social Scientific Research Yaşar Aydın Continuity and Change: Immigration Policies in Germany from the Sixties to the Present 229 Mehmet Okyayuz Conclusion 259 Seçil Paçacı Elitok and Thomas Straubhaar List of Abbreviations 271 International Workshop on Migration Potentials from and to Turkey 273 Contributors 275 Conclusion Seçil Paçacı Elitok and Thomas Straubhaar Turkey is an important actor in terms of migratory regimes and migration man- agement, as it stands at the junctions of Europe, Asia and Africa. Due to its geo- political significance and closeness both to the EU Area and MENA (Middle East and North Africa), Turkey became the nexus of emigration, immigration and transit migration. Turkey has been a country of emigration for the last fifty years since World War II. The movement of Turkish guest-workers to Western Europe and especially to Germany has been in the focus of interest. However, other countries of destination have become more important, as Turk- ish firms have expanded their activities in the neighboring countries. In recent times, another phenomenon has become apparent. More and more, Turkey has also become a country of immigration. Especially migrants from MENA have moved to Turkey with its improving standard of living (in comparison to the region) and the increasing chances of getting a job (especially in informal sec- tors). Furthermore, however, some of the immigrants see Turkey as a transit country of their long journey to (Western) Europe. This is of special impor- tance for the EU, since the transit movement via Turkey directly affects the immigration control system from Turkey to the EU due to the common Turk- ish-EU border. In the context of Turkey’s accession to the EU, the issue of “potential mi- gration” from Turkey and its impact upon European labor markets became one of the concerns of the EU, considering Turkey’s growing population and young labor force. In the light of the discussion about the deepening of the EU instead of enlargement, the relations between Turkey and the EU followed a stagnat- ing pattern in the post-Lisbon Treaty period. Since the second half of 2008, un- der the influence of conservative leaders of Europe, such as Merkel and Sarkozy, relations between Turkey and the EU almost came to a standstill. Cur- 260 Seçil Paçacı Elitok and Thomas Straubhaar rently, privileged partnership as an alternative form to Turkey’s membership is among the most controversial issues in the current agenda of EU. Fears Among the fears of the EU with regard to Turkey’s membership, three points, which are elaborated below, play the most significant role. Firstly, due to the demographics of Turkey, the numbers of seats at the European Parliament will decrease, which is not for the sake of current members. Secondly, in terms of living standard and GDP per capita, Turkey is below the European average and considered as an outlier not fitting into the economic standards. Finally, due to the Muslim identity of Turkey, there are concerns about the disharmony between the Christian values of Europe and cultural impacts of Islam. Too many The EU’s demographic trend is characterized by low fertility rates and longev- ity. Thus, in demographic terms, Europe is facing the problems of an aging and shrinking population in addition to the low labor force participation rates. Demographic trends show that West Europe will mostly rely on the foreign labor force in the future. Münz et al. (2007)1 underline the logical necessity of migration and postulate that on average a net flow of slightly less than one and half million labor migrants per year would be required to keep Europe’s economically active population at constant levels. With regard to the future migration potential from Turkey to Ger- many, the demographic development might become crucial. In the mid-2000s, the size of the population was 82 million in Germany and 70 million in Turkey. In the last decade, the population grew by 0.1 in Germany and by 1.5 in Turkey. In the mid-2000s, 20 % of the total population in Germany was over 65 years of age. In Turkey, this ratio remained only at 6 %. Consequently, the population development might lead to an excess supply of labor in Turkey, while in Ger- many it might lead to an excess demand for labor. Taken together that will stimulate incentives to migrate from Turkey to Germany. In comparison to Germany, Turkey’s population is increasing; however, this trend will be stabi- lized as well in the long run. 1 Münz/Straubhaar/Vadean, F./Vadean, N. (2007). Conclusion 261 Too Poor2 Another crucial factor in determining the causes of migration is the contrast in the average standard of living among different countries. The choice of indi- viduals to emigrate based on their increased income earning potentials does not follow a linear function, but instead a logarithmic one. This means that there is a stronger propensity for an individual to choose to migrate in the case of larger income gaps, which becomes weaker in the case of smaller income gaps. The propensity for an individual to emigrate may occur long before income generation between the host country and the country of origin have equalized be- cause of a saturation point of migration. Thus, the speed of change is important. It makes a big difference whether the income gap is declining rapidly or not.
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