A Maritime Security Framework for the Legal Dimensions of Irregular Migration by Sea

Turkey has followed an “open door” policy towards refugees from Syria since the March 2011 outbreak of the devastating civil war in Syria. This “liberal” policy has been accompanied by a “humanitarian discourse” regarding the admission and accommodation of the refugees. In such a context, it is widely claimed that Turkey has not adopted a securitization strategy in its dealings with the refugees. However, this article argues that the stated “open door” approach and its limitations have gone largely unexamined. The assertion is, here, refugees fleeing Syria have been integrated into a security framework embedding exclusionary, militarized and technologized border practices. Drawing on the critical border studies, the article deconstructs these practices and the way they are violating the principle of non-refoulement in particular and human rights of refugees in general.

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Book Reviews

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v12i2.251 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 172-179

Author(s):

Deianira Ganga ◽

B. Dilara Seker ◽

Wadim Strielkowski ◽

Tuncay Bilecen

Keyword(s):

Social Integration ◽

Irregular Migration ◽

Ethnic Economy ◽

University Of Texas ◽

Global Nature

Ambrosini, Maurizio. Irregular Migration and Invisible Welfare. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 256 pages (ISBN: 9781137314321).Cohen, Jeffrey H., and Ibrahim Sirkeci. Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011. xiv + 165 pages. (ISBN: 9780292726857). Dedeoğlu, Saniye. Migrants, Work and Social Integration: Women's Labour in the Turkish Ethnic Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 216 pages. (ISBN: 9781137371119)

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Yearly quotas and country-reserved shares in Italian immigration policy

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v5i1.57 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 41-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Paolo Cuttitta

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Immigration Policy ◽

Foreign Workers ◽

Irregular Migration ◽

Quota System ◽

Italian Immigration ◽

Migration Flows

Regular immigration to Italy is based on a quota system setting annual ceilings to legal entries. Reserved shares are granted to single countries or categories of countries. Reserved shares have been increased; they are used as an incentive to obtain the cooperation of countries of origin in stemming irregular migration flows. The total quota of regular immigration has gradually increased too. Still, it does not fully respond to the growing demand of foreign workers on the labour market, and quotas seem to be used as crypto-regularisations rather than as an instrument for regulating legal entries.

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