Chair

On 18 March 2016, the European Council and Turkey reached an agreement that aimed to stop the flow of irregular migration via Turkey to Europe as a response to the European migrant crisis. Since then, migration has become one of the key issue areas where EU-Turkey cooperation continues. While different actors on both sides are discussing about freezing the relations, those who still believe in Turkey being a part of Europe are seeking ways to maintain ties, presenting the cooperation on migration with a possible spill-over effect to other areas. At the same time, there is an unprecedented interest in migration studies in Turkey that has become the host of the largest refugee community in the world. Whereas most research as well as policy focus seem to be directed towards this rather single aspect of migration and mobility within European-Turkish migratory system, i.e., the managing of refugee flows; there is a tendency to overlook migration and mobility within Europe from a larger framework, e.g., intra-EU mobility, Erasmus exchange, new trends of citizenship acquisition, life-style migration, etc.  Within this context, the aim of the Jean Monnet Chair of Migration and Mobility within Europe, CHARM is to understand the ways in which European integration has reflected developments in the governance of migration and mobility within the continent. Given the nature of the relationship between the two, presenting a systematic study and public understanding of these developments can act as a stimulus to analytically reflect upon the current and future migration and mobility policies of not only the EU, but Turkey as well. Accordingly, CHARM aims to provide a knowledge, networking and discussion platformfor students, researchers, academics, civil society representatives, policymakers, and other professional and specialized agencies who are working on any area of migration and mobility in relation to European migratory system.