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Item Long waited brothers or unwelcome guests: the logic of reception mechanisms of a receiving state: Turkey and its asylum seekers in 1989 and 1991(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.) Çatır, Gül.; Eder, Mine,This thesis scrutinizes the impact of the nation-state in shaping the immigration and asylum flows. It sees the state as the primary agent in determining the reception contexts that await the immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees in a host state. Furthermore, the reception conditions come into being as a result of the interplay between foreign policy, domestic politics, and ethno-national considerations of the receiving state. It argues that the explanation of immigration and asylum practices of the nation-state by reserving the greatest weight to identity politics remains incomplete. That is, the reception contexts of the nation-state in each population flow are an outcome of various dynamics. Hence the reception contexts should be addressed individually in each and every immigration and asylum case. It follows that the ethnic national, liberal national and cosmopolitan premises, as ideal type constructs denoting partiality and impartiality of the state practices vis-à-vis the immigrant and refugee groups, could be encountered in state practices and discourses, yet they would not be dominating because of the interaction between the foreign policy, domestic politics and ethnic considerations. This study tries to demonstrate this argument by using two case studies of mass influx of refugees, one from Bulgaria in 1989 and the other from Iraq in 1991, in the reception setting of Turkey, which is generally regarded as governed by an overemphasis on ethnicity and identity when it comes to its immigration and asylum policies. In this regard, this thesis maintains that the case studies, selected on the basis of ethnic differentiation of the newcomers, reflected the reception practices of the Turkish state as a resultant of foreign and domestic politics as well as ethnicity considerations.Item The impact of foreign nationals on state policy: refugees and asylum seekers, European Court of Human Rights case law and Turkish asylum law(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.) Yılmaz, Gökçen.; Kirişçi, Kemal,This thesis addresses the question of how an individual who is foreign and in a vulnerable position can affect state policy. Considering recent developments as preparation of a draft asylum law and increasing European Court of Human Rights judgments in refugees' cases against Turkey, this question attracts attention in context of Turkey. In line with this question, the aim of this thesis is to understand how an individual refugee, who is part of the most vulnerable group in the society in economic, political or social terms, can have impact on Turkish state asylum policy. This thesis is based on the central argument that ECtHR judgments have been effective in shaping the draft asylum law of Turkey. Since ECtHR procedures proceed through individual petition, the thesis also argues that even an individual refugee can have influence on state policy even if this effect is mediated by other actors. At this point, involvement of third parties into relation between individual refugee and state is of utmost significance. Moreover, ECtHR’s inclusion of individuals by virtue of right to individual petition is crucial as well. However, refugees' lack of action capacity restrains them from exploiting those legal opportunities. From this perspective; NGOs, activists, and lawyers come to front as mediators not only between state and individual but also between ECtHR and applicant refugee. Focus on ECtHR judgments as significant effects on draft asylum law brings about questioning refugees* access to the Court. Therefore, this thesis analyzes both the content of the draft law in comparison with judgments of the Court and the actual application process. Accordingly, major contribution of the thesis is analysis of Court judgments’ effect on domestic legislation from the lenses of individual level of analysis. In other words, ECtHR judgments' effect is analyzed as a mediated effect of individual on state outcome.