23 Following Turkish border practices

Beste İşleyen

DOI: 10.4324/9781003108016-26

Introduction

My ongoing research focusses on everyday policing of irregular migration in Turkey at European Union (EU) borders. Started in 2015 when border crossings from Turkey into the EU reached a peak, this project was driven by an empirical puzzle, which informed the methodological choices that I have made at later stages of research. Despite the rich scholarship on the topic of irregular migration and asylum in Turkey, particularly within the context of Turkey–EU relations, the daily governance of Turkish borders was and is still largely underexplored. This constitutes an empirical gap in our knowledge about the mundane and concrete ways in which borders ...

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