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Shifting Responsibilities ‘Down’, ‘Up’ and ‘Out’: A Multi-Level Governance Approach to Understanding Turkey’s Refugee Policy

Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Orman Sk
Nişantepe Mahallesi, Çekmeköy, İstanbul 34794

Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü ve Jean Monnet Charm Kürsüsü sizleri Prof. Dr. Rabia Karakaya Polat'ın konuk olacağı "Shifting Responsibilities ‘Down’, ‘Up’ and ‘Out’: A Multi-Level Governance Approach to Understanding Turkey’s Refugee Policy" adlı etkinliğine davet ediyor. Etkinlik 14 Ocak 2021 tarihinde 18:00-20:00 saatleri arasında Zoom üzerinden çevrimiçi bir şekilde gerçekleşecektir. 

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Shifting Responsibilities ‘Down’, ‘Up’ and ‘Out’: A Multi-Level Governance Approach to Understanding Turkey’s Refugee Policy

Rabia Karakaya Polat (Işık University) & Vivien Lowndes (University of Birmingham)

This research investigates local government responses to the Syrian refugee situation in Turkey, situating the analysis within a multi-level governance (MLG) approach. We explore how municipalities in Turkey have coped with the arrival of 3.6 million Syrians within a few years amid limited resources, ambiguous legal framework and changing national policy. A MLG approach enables us to analyse the negotiation of authority between different levels of governance, namely the international level (including the European Union), the national government and elected municipalities as well as horizontal actors such as NGOs. Turkey’s highly centralised political system, combined with the current political context, has restricted the capacity of local actors to develop their own refugee policies. Nevertheless, our research discovers local variation and creative policy responses, which can be explained at least in part by the ways in which municipalities relate to actors at other governance levels, both formally and via informal networks. The MLG approach helps explain how capacity is being generated at the local level through the involvement of NGOs and international funders and agencies, working alongside municipal actors in an environment where the nation state is reluctant to empower local government with funds, powers and legal safeguards. The value of the MLG framework to migration studies also lies in its recognition that nation states are increasingly shifting responsibilities for migration ‘up’ towards international and supranational institutions, ‘out’ towards non-public actors, and ‘down’ towards local level authorities (Caponio and Jones-Correa, 2018). Our research elaborates this proposition in relation to the case of Turkey.

Rabia Karakaya Polat

Rabia Karakaya Polat is a professor of politics at the Department of International Relations at Işık University in Istanbul. Previously, Prof. Rabia Karakaya Polay was an international visiting fellow at the Center for Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the University of Essex (2017-2018). She completed her Phd at De Montfort University in the United Kingdom, focusing on the implications of the Internet on political participation at the local level. Since her PhD studies, her research has focused on three streams: political implications of technology (particularly the Internet), critical security studies and more recently critical discourse analysis.
Her research has been funded by Işık University Research Fund, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Tubitak) and the British Academy. Currently, Prof. Karakaya Polat is a British Academy Newton Advanced Fellow working with Prof. Vivien Lowndes from the Institute of Local Government Studies (INLOGOV) at the University of Birmingham. Their research focuses on local repsonses to Syrian refugees in Turkey.
She published numerous articles in journals such as Security Dialogue, South European Society and Politics, Citizenship Studies, Parliamentary Affairs and Government Information Quarterly. Her most recent article, published in Critical Discourse Studies, analyses the ruling AKP’s discourse on Syrian refugees in Turkey.