Harmonization or externalization : Asylum and irregular migration issues in EU-Turkish relations

Chaire de recherche du Canada
en droit international des migrations

Le mercredi 22 novembre 2006
De 13h à 16 h
Au 3744, Jean-Brillant
Salle 515-05

One of the difficult chapters that Turkey will be negotiating with the European Union concerns asylum and irregular migration. The acquis in these two areas have elements that have led many to argue that the EU is very much into constructing a “fortress Europe” and increasingly “externalizing” the responsibility to protect the external borders of the Union on candidate and neighboring countries. The “Accession Partnership” of early 2006, like its predecessors, expect Turkey to put into place a fully fledged asylum status determination process and hence lift the “geographical limitation” to the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees ; combat illegal migration as well as negotiate and conclude with the European Commission a “readmission agreement” and adopt the EU`s Schengen visa regulations.

Kemal Kirisci is Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, director of the European Studies Center, and a professor of international relations in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul. His areas of expertise include international relations theory, international politics, government, and society in the Middle East, Turkish foreign policy, international affairs since 1648, and refugee studies. From 1996 to 2000, he served as a member of the External Relations Advisory Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Harmonization or externalization : Asylum and irregular migration issues in EU-Turkish relations

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