Contributor or Barrier: Role of the Kurdish Diaspora in Turkey’s European Union Accession Process
Contributor or Barrier: Role of the Kurdish Diaspora in Turkey’s European Union Accession Process

Author(s): Sevin Gülfer Sağnıç
Subject(s): Politics, Evaluation research, Migration Studies, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: migration; Turkey; EU accession; Kurdish diaspora;
Summary/Abstract: “The momentous events around the world increasingly involve international migration” (Castles & Miller, 1998, p. 5).Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller explain the character of the international as a part of a “transnational revolution that is reshaping societies and politics around the globe” (Castles & Miller, 1998, p. 5). Diaspora communities which form as the direct result of the international migration process constitute a driving force for restructuring world politics. Trans-national activities of diaspora members change the meaning of local and global; and conflicts no longer stay in their national border but reach the international arena.

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