Jacopo Anderlini (University of Genoa) interviews Didem Danış (University of Galatasaray) on the current trends and aspects of migration in Turkey. The episode addresses the role of the country as a transit and buffer zone in the EU migratory management, and also as a country of destination, highlighting the composition of asylum seekers’ and refugees’ presence. Based on her fieldwork in Istanbul, Didem Danış depict the complex relations between NGOs – that she calls “pro-governamental organisations” –, state institutions, local authorities, members of the ruling party AKP and self-organised migrants’ networks.
References:
Danış, D., and D. Nazlı. 2019. ‘A Faithful Alliance Between the Civil Society and the State: Actors and Mechanisms of Accommodating Syrian Refugees in Istanbul’. International Migration 57 (2): 143–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12495;
Sert, D.Ş. and Danış, D. (2020), Framing Syrians in Turkey: State
Control and No Crisis Discourse. Int Migr.
https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12753