China's Global Influence and Migration

This research examines the role of smartphones in refugees’ journeys. It traces the risks and possibilities afforded by smartphones for facilitating information, communication, and migration flows in the digital passage to Europe. For the Syrian and Iraqi refugee respondents in this France-based qualitative study, sma…

Abstract The term “externalization” is used by a range of migration scholars, policy makers and the media to describe the extension of border and migration controls beyond the so-called ‘migrant receiving nations’ in the Global North and into neighboring countries or sending states in the Global South. It refers to a…

• AYŞEN EZGİ ÜSTÜBİCİ ÖNAY

Interpretations of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) mostly agree that it is a policy opening that offers some remedies for China's economic and security challenges, as well as reflects China's increasing regional and global ambitions. This paper argues that the multiple drivers characterizing the BRI result from the…

• VEYSEL TEKDAL

Abstract This article examines the case of Syrian refugees as seasonal migrant workers in Turkey and critically discusses the working and living conditions fostering their relative vulnerability compared to other workers. Syrian refugees are subject to discriminatory practices in terms of lower wages, longer working h…

• DENİZ PELEK

Over the last decade, the precarity of refugees and temporary migrants and its associated ambiguities is an increasing focus of scholarly inquiry and policy debate. In particular, the Syrian conflict since 2011 has led to dramatic refugee crises especially in terms of the number of people displaced into neighbouring c…

• ASLI CEYLAN ÖNER

En évitant de s'en tenir à des catégories assignatrices trop rigides, compte tenu de la fluidité et de la fragilité des statuts, l'article s'efforce de caractériser la fonction de la métropole d'Istanbul dans le système actuel des migrations, mobilités et circulations internationales. Plusieurs figures sont ainsi succ…

Due to its particular border situation and historical past, Antakya (in south-central Turkey) has, in contrast to most cities in Turkey, been successful in protecting important components of its diachronically composed multiculturalism. In light of such qualities Antakya is able to permit a diachronic analysis of diff…

• FULYA DOĞRUEL

2013 yılı sonrası Çin Avrupa ile olan ticaret rotası üzerinde Tek Kuşak Tek Yol projesi başlatmıştır. Tarihi İpek Yolu sınırları üzerinde bulunan bu koridor Çin ve Avrupa’yı kara yolu, demiryolu ve limanlar vasıtası ile daha hızlı bir ulaşım ağı ile bağlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu aynı zamanda taşıma maliyetlerinde öneml…

• AHMET SALİH İKİZ

Abstract The article reviews how and to what extent the EU–Turkey Statement of 18 March 2016 has affected the modus operandi of migrant smugglers in the Aegean region and migrants’ decisions to interact with them for irregular crossings from Turkey to Greece. It draws on field research, including 46 in‐depth interview…

• AYSELİN GÖZDE YILDIZ OĞUZALP

ÖZET 1978’de başlayan “Reform ve Dışa açılma” politikasının kırkıncı yılını geride bırakan Çin, dünya ekonomisinin motor gücü haline gelmiştir. Çin Devlet Başkan Xi Jinping’in 2013 yılında başlattığı “Kuşak ve Yol Girişimi”nin, dünya nüfusunun en az üçte ikisini ve 70 civarında ülkeyi etkilemesi beklenmektedir. Girişi…

• ZEKERİYYA AKDAĞ

Ulus ötesi Belediye Ağları, işbirliğini kolaylaştıran politika aktörleri olarak uluslararası ilişkilerde yerini almıştır. Kentlerin, küreselleşme ve yerelleşme politikalarına eşlik eden gelişmelerle küresel politika alanında etkinliğini artırması kentler-arası işbirliklerini anlatan bir yapı olarak bu ağların önemini…

With the impact of globalization, increasing flows of social, economic and political relations have begun to redefine the state borders which causes the rising of new border identities. By this redefinition process, European Union (EU)'s external wall forming the boundaries with the neighbourhood countries have also b…