Turkish Immigrants in the European Union
In October 2005, Turkey officially started the first phase of the accession process towards European Union membership. Many analysts and politicians predict this process will be long and difficult; Turkish membership may not happen before 201415, if at all.
Amongst the many tough, contested issues that will mark the accession process will be immigration and integration. Opponents highlight that many Turkish immigrants, due to cultural differences, have failed to integrate into their host societies. Yet, there are also those who claim that Turkey is a dynamic society whose growing educated population could help address the dilemmas of shrinking and aging populations faced by most EU member countries. They also argue Turkey is economically growing, and democratic with a buoyant civil society which would assist integration.
This book is an analytical and empirically based contribution to the ongoing debate, addressing questions such as
What are the demographic trends in Turkey compared to those of current EU member countries?
What is the potential scope of immigration from Turkey to the EU?
What will be the driving forces of immigration from Turkey under alternative scenarios?
How will these trends affect Turkish immigrants in Europe?
What is the integration problem of Turkish immigrants, what form does it take and what can be done about it?
This book was previously published as a special issue of Turkish Studies.
Refik Erzan is a Professor of Economics at Bogazii University
Kemal Kiri ci is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Bogazii University
Turkish Immigrants in the European Union
Determinants of Immigration and Integration
Edited by Refik Erzan and Kemal Kirici
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Contents
| Papers |
| Cem Behar |
| Refik Erzan, Umut Kuzuba & Nilfer Yildiz |
| Hubert Krieger & Bertrand Matre |
| Gamze Avci |
| Johan Wets |
| Janina Shn & Veysel zcan |
| Christiane Timmerman |
| Dirk Jacobs, Karen Phalet & Marc Swyngedouw |
The editors:
Refik Erzan is a Professor at the Department of Economics, Boazii University, Istanbul. He is also the Director of the Center for Economics and Econometrics and Deputy Director of the Center for European Studies. Erzan received his PhD in Economics from the University of Stockholm at the Institute for International Economic Studies. He served as an economist/consultant at UNCTAD and ILO in Geneva, and UNIDO in Vienna, and as a senior economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Erzan's field is international economics, particularly international trade. His policy-oriented research topics include European integration.
Kemal Kirici is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boazii University, Istanbul. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and is also the director of the Center for European Studies at the university. He received his PhD at City University in London. His areas of research interest include European integration, asylum, border control and immigration issues in the European Union, EU-Turkish relations, Middle Eastern politics, ethnic conflicts, and refugee movements. He has previously taught at universities in Britain, Switzerland and the United States.
The contributors:
Gamze Avci is a Research Fellow at the Department of Turkish Studies at Leiden University since 2003 and has served as Assistant Professor at Boazii University, Istanbul (19972002). She specializes in Turkish immigration to Western Europe and Turkey's relations with the European Union. Her work has appeared in journals like European Foreign Affairs Review, European Journal of Political Research, and European Journal of Migration and Law.
Cem Behar is Professor of Economics and Vice-President in charge of Academic Affairs (Provost), at Boazii University, Istanbul. He has a PhD in Economics and trained as an economist and demographer at the University of Paris-I (Panthon-Sorbonne) and the Institut de Dmographie de l'Universit de Paris. Behar taught at the University of Paris (Paris-I), the University of Washington (Seattle) and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Areas of special interest are population dynamics and historical demography.
Dirk Jacobs is Associate Professor of Sociology at the (Francophone) Free University of Brussels (ULB) and at the (Flemish) KUBrussel. He is a member of the Groupe d'tudes sur l'Ethnicit, le Racisme, les Migrations et l'Exclusion (GERME) of the Institut de Sociologie at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Hubert Krieger is a research manager of the Living Conditions Unit at the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, which is an EU agency that provides information for policy making, specifically at EU level. He is currently working on new development projects on the interface between living and working conditions, on a new monitoring instrument on the quality of life in an enlarged Europe and mobility between EU member states and immigration to the EU from third countries. He is an expert on industrial relations, labor law, workers' participation, employment, work organization, financial participation, worklife balance and equal opportunities. He is the author of several books and articles. He holds a PhD in social policy and labor market economics from the University of Cologne and a MSc in European social policy from University College Dublin.
Bertrand Matre is a research analyst at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin. He is a graduate of Economics in the University of La Sorbonne Paris-I in 1990. He is currently involved in a number of projects using a range of European and Irish data sets. His research interests include the distribution and packaging of household income and multidimensional approaches to poverty and social exclusion. He has published recently on these issues in the European Sociological Review and the Journal of European Social Policy.
Karen Phalet is a Research Fellow at ERCOMER (
