THE EFFECT OF GLOBALIZATION ON MIGRATION-SECURITY RELATIONSHIP

Authors : Emre ÇITAK

Pages : 95-117

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Publication Date : 2019-12-26

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The migration is a process that has created a long and lasting effects which have been sustained since the existence of humanity. However, it has started to be examined under a “security” issue especially in the post-Cold War period. The relevant concern, which started with the increase in the immigrant population within the countries and the number of individuals participating in the migration process, has become a security threat with the illegal and irregular migration. Security problems that lead to migration, stems from migration and affect immigrants are considered in this context. Migration affects individual, societal, state, regional and international security areas and thus the immigration-security relationship becomes comprehensive. Globalization, with its positive and negative outcomes, has serious impacts on migration and security as it has done in almost all other fields. With its political, economic, cultural and social dimensions, globalization has a bi-directional effect on security with its problem-forming and problem-solving characteristic while it plays a particularly encouraging, compelling and triggering role in international migration. The aim of this paper is to systematically address the process the migration-security relationship, whose foundations were laid immediately after the Cold War, has gone through within the scope of the outputs and effects of globalization. The problems at different levels of security analysis arising from migration and the impact of globalization on their occurrence, exacerbation, spread or prevention have been tried to be examined in this study.
Keywords : Migration, Security, Globalization, International Migration