Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
Challenging ideas
On Turkish politics and International affairs

Author

Judith Zijlstra

University of Amsterdam
Judith Zijlstra
Stuck on the Way to Europe? Iranian Transit Migration to Turkey
October 1, 2014
This article discusses Turkey’s increasing role as a country of immigration by using the case study of Iranian migration to Turkey. While Turkey predominantly functions as a transit country for Iranians on their way to the West, this article will focus on a small group of Iranian migrants who went to Turkey with the purpose of transit but eventually settled down in the country. At the same time, the article investigates the concepts of “transit” and “settlement” among a growing group of Iranian students who entered Turkish universities in recent years. In which ways can these students be compared to other Iranian migrants in Turkey? And to what extent are Turkey’s institutions for higher education becoming an easy channel for migrants looking for ways to leave their home country?

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