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    Mass Migration Governance And Openness Toward Refugees: Comparing Germany And Turkey
    (INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, 2024-01-22) Erden, Yigit; Ozcurumez, Saime
    This study seeks answers to the question: 'Under what conditions do communities with migration experience in refugee-receiving states become more open toward accepting more refugees and why?'. The research seeks answers to this question by examining the attitudes of individuals (N = 37) from Turkey who have been living in Germany for at least a year and who have sufficient familiarity with the characteristics of governance of mass migration in both countries. The findings suggest that the respondents are more pessimistic about the consequences of Turkey accepting more refugees in the future, while they are optimistic about the outcomes of the arrival of more refugees in Germany. This study posits that receiving communities' perceptions about the host state's regulatory and institutional capacity in managing mass migration and integration of refugees shape their attitudes toward the possibility of the influx of more refugees over time. The findings indicate that efficient mass migration governance in a receiving state is identified through four characteristics: (i) admission of educated refugees, (ii) proper refugee registration procedures, (iii) systematic integration processes, and (iv) effective monitoring and law enforcement mechanisms. The study concludes that local communities view public authorities as the key actors in managing the consequences of mass migration and establishing and sustaining good mass migration governance at the receiving state level is likely to facilitate positive attitudes towards accepting more refugees.
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    Thinking Citizenship Through The Lived Experiences Of Highly Skilled Migrants In Budapest
    (INTERSECTIONS-EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIETY AND POLITICS, 2024-11-11) Gioftsios, Pinar Dilan Sonmez; Ozcurumez, Saime
    This study aims to understand and explain the concept of citizenship by analyzing the lived experiences of highly skilled migrants, reflecting on their everyday transnational lives in the urban setting of Budapest. Based on discourse analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews conducted in Budapest in the fall of 2022, the research thinks through lived citizenship experiences to explore how and why these experiences matter for understanding subjective citizenship. This study suggests that the concept of lived citizenship embodies a complex narrative of everyday socio-economic, socio-cultural, and emotional experiences that go beyond what the legal status depicts. Citizenship experiences of highly skilled migrants involve a process of negotiating cultural and moral cosmopolitanism with constructive patriotism in everyday lives in the urban context. The research broadens the thinking on the foundation, manifestations, and operationalization of lived citizenship as experiences of belonging and coexistence, presenting a unique contribution to the production of knowledge about highly skilled migration in Hungary. This article proposes that citizenship entails complex relational dimensions and involves a life-long learning process with continual meaning-making through life experiences that transcends the consequences of individuals' legal status within a given nation-state.