Foreign Policy and Migration: Migration Issue and its Effects on Politics Cover Image

Dış Politika ve Göç: Göç Olgusu ve Dış Politikaya Etkileri
Foreign Policy and Migration: Migration Issue and its Effects on Politics

Author(s): Fatih Tuna
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Migration; Foreign Policy; International Migration;

Summary/Abstract: Although migration has a dynamic structure, it is a complex social phenomenon with various inputs. In the phenomenon of migration, where space and time are the determining factors, economic, cultural, social and political reasons are among the basic inputs of migration. In addition, large-scale international migrations that have emerged in recent years have begun to be closely related to the formation of foreign policy. The nature of migrations began to change and the increasing numbers caused states to begin to evaluate the phenomenon of migration as a crisis. Therefore, the dramatic effects of foreign policies on international migration trends have begun to emerge. Also, mass migrations were sometimes used as a foreign policy tool. After the Second World War, it is the period when Western states started to try to solve immigration and immigration-related problems through legal means and accordingly developed their foreign policies. The statement “everyone has the right to seek and enjoy asylum in other countries under persecution” as stated in Article 14 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has formed the basis of the documents determining the international refugee regime that will emerge from this date on. States against international migration events II. Following the World War II active foreign policy made the phenomenon of migration a global phenomenon. In this study, the relationship between migration and foreign policy is discussed, and it is emphasized how migration, which has become a global problem, is evaluated as a foreign policy tool for countries.

  • Issue Year: 9/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 287-294
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Turkish