The Limits of an International Burdensharing Approach: Syrian Refugee Protection Crisis and its Consequences

Download

index.pdf

Date

2018-09-01

Author

Kale Lack, Başak

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

210
views

89
downloads

This article analyses the consequences of the Syrian refugee protection crisis on the development of an effective international burden-sharing approach. It argues that despite the proven necessity of developing effective burden-sharing mechanisms at the EU and international levels, the Syrian refugee protection crisis has shown that limited progress has been achieved both at the international and the regional levels. This article brings these discussions under a systematic framework to show how the Syrian refugee crisis can provide an opportunity and also a challenge for the development of an effective and durable international burdensharing approach. The primary objective of this research is to review Turkey’s experience with the Syrian refugees. The lack of commitment for international burden-sharing puts refugee-receiving countries under immense financial, political and social pressures, which have direct consequences on the humanitarian assistance that refugees can receive. Taking one such refugee hosting country, Turkey, as an example, this research investigates responses given to refugee protection at an international level

Subject Keywords

Syrian refugee protection crisis, Syrian war, Refugees, Burden-Sharing, Turkey and refugees, Refugee policy

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/75004
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/perception/issue/48951/624479

Journal

Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs

Collections

Department of International Relations, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

THE DISCOURSES OF POLITICAL LEADERS TOWARDS SYRIAN REFUGEES IN LEBANON AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DOMESTIC POLITICS Dal, Derya; Benli Altunışık, Meliha; Department of Middle East Studies (2022-2-10) A tragic result of the prolonged conflict in Syria has been the refugee crisis that affected the international community in general, and the countries sharing borders with Syria in particular. Lebanon, a neighboring state to Syria, with a small territory and complex political system, has hosted the highest number of Syrian refugees per capita. Maintaining a fragile economic, social and political structure, Lebanon is greatly impacted by the arrival of a substantial number of refugees. Consequently, the refu...
THE IMPACT OF THE EU ON ASYLUM POLICIES OF TURKEY AND JORDAN IN THE LIGHT OF THE ‘SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS’ Yasin, Şadan; Göçer Akder, Derya; Department of Middle East Studies (2021-7-14) The Syrian Refugee Crisis became to be known as such after the irregular mass refugee/migrant flow of mostly Syrians to Europe in 2015. However, the greatest challenge of receiving the Syrians fleeing the outbreak of the Syrian conflict in 2011 belonged to the neighbouring countries to Syria. The asylum foundations and policies and their compatibility with international standards in these countries have come under scrutiny following this. The ‘crisis’ brought to the light the discrepancies and deficiencies ...
The role of education on integration policies : a comparıson of Sweden, Germany and Turkey after the Syrian refugee crisis Erşekerci, Nesibe Burcu; Tür Küçükkaya, Özlem; Department of Middle East Studies (2020) This study aims to produce a comparative research on integration policies of Sweden, Germany, and Turkey that host remarkable number of Syrians after the crisis in Syria which is considered as the biggest humanitarian and refugee crisis of our time. This study mainly examines main integration areas and tools used by Sweden, Germany and Turkey to deal with unexpected number of Syrian refugees This study argues that after the Syrian crisis, despite the three countries’ distinct characteristics, and their diff...
Rethinking Asylum Policies in the EU lessons from the Syrian refugee Crisis Eralp, Yakup Atila; Yıldız, Ayselin Gözde (null; 2015-03-07) The Syrian refugee crisis at the doorstep of the EU once more demonstrated the inadequacies of the EU member states as regards their commitments to asylum and international protection. While little progress has been achieved in terms of EU’s aims to have a Common European Asylum System, it is observed that EU is more likely externalising its asylum practices towards non-member third countries in a securitized context which creates more challenges across a broad region including the EU’s immediate neighbourh...
THE DYNAMICS BEHIND REFUGEE AND ASYLUM POLICY MAKING IN TURKEY: MASS REFUGEE MOVEMENTS FROM BULGARIA AND IRAQ Bozer, Gizem; Kale Lack, Başak; Department of International Relations (2022-9-19) The study aims to analyse the factors that affected Motherland Party’s policy responses to the mass refugee flows that originated in Bulgaria and Iraq between 1988 and 1991. The research closely examines the parallels and discrepancies between the policy responses to the large-scale refugee flows from Bulgaria and Iraq, as well as the factors that led to these responses. The study uses a conceptual framework relating to the refugee response policies, which systematizes the analysis under border control, rec...

Citation Formats

B. Kale Lack, “The Limits of an International Burdensharing Approach: Syrian Refugee Protection Crisis and its Consequences,” Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs, pp. 55–84, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/75004.