Skilled Labour Emigration From Turkey

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Demir Karanfil, Mehtap

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This thesis explores the factors shaping skilled workers’ emigration decisions from Turkey. It draws on qualitative research that collected primary data from 44 semi-structured interviews conducted with university graduates that either emigrated or were planning to emigrate at the time of the research, between April-May 2018. The interviewees prefer to migrate to countries where they thought they would be able to practice their basic rights and liberties. European Countries, specifically the Netherlands and England, also Canada are the most preferred places of destination. Job application is the most frequently used means of trying to start a new life abroad, followed by higher education applications, and visa applications of several kinds. This research emphasizes the interconnectivities between economic and political power and the resulting conditions underpinning emigration decisions in modern societies. Political conditions figure as important factors shaping emigration decisions from Turkey. The interviewees’ perceptions about the practices of basic rights and liberties, the rule of law, religious conservatism and the quality of the education services feature as prominent grounds for emigration. Significantly, the thesis finds that skilled workers are prepared to live in more modest economic living conditions than they are accustomed to in Turkey. Findings in this thesis are compatible with those from comparative international research on skilled labour emigration which draw attention to the rising importance of political conditions.

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Emigration; Skilled Labour Emigration; Governance; Protection of Basic Rights and Liberties

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/98182

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M. Demir Karanfil, “Skilled Labour Emigration From Turkey,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.