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Challenges of examining the Ottoman/Turkish immigration policies
[working paper]
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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
Abstract The article demonstrates the challenges of the project, which argues that the pro-immigration policy of the Otto man/Turkish governments (1774-1989) was shaped by political concerns (concretely population and identity politics), in addition to humanitarian concerns. The pro-immigration policy, and m... view more
The article demonstrates the challenges of the project, which argues that the pro-immigration policy of the Otto man/Turkish governments (1774-1989) was shaped by political concerns (concretely population and identity politics), in addition to humanitarian concerns. The pro-immigration policy, and more specifically the open-door policy, facilitated, encouraged, compounded, and even in some cases produced immigration. In other words it functioned as a "pull factor". As a working pa-per, this article will analyse epistemological, methodological and theoretical challenges that emanate from the scope of the topic. To examine two centuries of migration covering a territory extending to three continents and including millions of migrants, as well as those they were directly or indirectly tied to, is indeed quite a challenge.... view less
Keywords
eighteenth century; nineteenth century; twentieth century; Turkey; migration; refugee; Ottoman Empire; immigration policy
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
General History
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open-door-policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
16 p.
Series
ZMO Working Papers, 28
ISSN
2191-3897
Status
Published Version; reviewed
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Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications