“Managing” Irregular Labor Migrants in Turkey

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2015-06-01

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Rittersberger, Helga İda

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The aim of this article is to consider the socio-political construction of irregularity and to discuss how this serves the development of policies and strategies for ‘the management of migration’ and migrant labor. This paper will first provide a short overview of Turkey’s rapid transformation into a country of immigration. Parallel to this, a discussion of the important legal amendments that have been enacted regarding the subject will be introduced. A specific emphasis will be given to measures introduced ‘to combat’ irregular foreign labor migration. An elaboration of the interconnectedness of illegality and irregularity will permit a deconstruction of the concept of irregular foreign labor. The article will attempt to reconsider the dimensions of agency for the migrants themselves and their potential for turning into social movements and/or forming alliances with other social movements, migrant associations, NGOs and labor unions. Addressing the potential of migrants as holders of agency and noting the fact that they are not criminals but part of the labor market, provides an important starting point to reconsider ‘irregularity’ and its relation to labor and human rights

Subject Keywords

Irregular labor migrants, Migration management, Social construction of irregularity, Autonomy of migrants, Turkey, Düzensiz göçmen işçiler, Göç yönetimi, Düzensizliğin toplumsal inşası, Göçmen otonomisi, Türkiye

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/74387
http://gam.gov.tr/files/sayi1-3.pdf

Journal

Göç Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Department of Sociology, Article

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H. İ. Rittersberger, ““Managing” Irregular Labor Migrants in Turkey,” Göç Araştırmaları Dergisi, pp. 80–107, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/74387.