Border Crossings Between Georgia and Turkey: the Sarp Land Border Gate

dc.contributor.author Toktaş, Şule
dc.contributor.author Çelik, Nihat
dc.date.accessioned 2019-06-27T08:01:33Z
dc.date.available 2019-06-27T08:01:33Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.department Fakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü en_US
dc.description.abstract The Sarp land border gate between Turkey and Georgia has become Turkey's gateway to the East in recent years. With a large number of individuals crossing every day it is also a labour gate where irregular Georgian immigrants cross the border for work in Turkey. In general border policies are constructed and reconstructed in a dynamic process in which economic security ethnopolitical geopolitical and cultural paradigms interact. The aim of this paper is to observe the complementary and conflicting relationship and negotiation process between economic and security paradigms in particular with a focus on the perceptions of the officers of the border administration and state bureaucracy at the local level. To this end field research was carried out consisting of interviews with Turkish state officials responsible for immigration and border crossing in the Sarp gate region. The article sheds light on the interaction between various agencies actors and stakeholders in border policymaking at the regional level. It also elaborates on the profiles both of incoming immigrants employed as irregular workers and of deportees. The results of the qualitative study show that the dominance of the economic paradigm that underlies the main framework of Georgia-Turkey relations overrides security concerns between the two countries thus necessitating a more flexible implementation of laws. The field research illustrates that implementation of laws and regulations at the local level varies and while some groups of irregular immigrants are allowed to work others are not and what is more are deported. en_US]
dc.identifier.citationcount 5
dc.identifier.doi 10.1080/14650045.2016.1219998 en_US
dc.identifier.endpage 406
dc.identifier.issn 1465-0045 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1557-3028 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1465-0045
dc.identifier.issn 1557-3028
dc.identifier.issue 2
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-84983507707 en_US
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 383 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/402
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2016.1219998
dc.identifier.volume 22 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000399732700008 en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality Q1
dc.institutionauthor Toktaş, Şule en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd en_US
dc.relation.journal Geopolitics en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 6
dc.title Border Crossings Between Georgia and Turkey: the Sarp Land Border Gate en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.wos.citedbyCount 6
dspace.entity.type Publication

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