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Turks in Europe: Migration Flows, Migrant Stocks and Demographic Structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2013

Heinz Fassmann  and
Ahmet İçduygu
Heinz Fassmann
Affiliation:
Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, c/o Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-1010 Wien, Postgasse 7, Austria. E-mail: heinz.fassmann@univie.ac.at
Ahmet İçduygu
Affiliation:
Koc University, Sariyer-Istanbul, Department of International Relations, c/o Migrations Research Program, Koc University Sariyer-Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail: AICDUYGU@ku.edu.tr
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Abstract

Presented here is an overview of migration flows and demographic structures of Turks in Europe over the past 50 years. Large-scale labour migration from Turkey to Europe occurred between 1961 and 1974. After that, it gave way to family migration, which today has more or less ended. Recently, there is slightly more emigration than immigration from the European point of view. Thus, stable migrant stocks developed in the receiving countries, especially Germany, Austria, France, and the Netherlands. The migrant stocks lag in many respects behind developments in the receiving countries, yet nonetheless they slowly but surely adapt to these. Despite their low status and feelings of exclusion, most Turkish immigrants are content with their lot and do not plan to leave their new homes in Europe.

Type
Focus: Turkey and Europe
Information
European Review , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 2013 , pp. 349 - 361
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2013 

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