Movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies Vol. 3, Issue 2/2017 ― Turkey's Changing Migration Regime and Its Global and Regional Dynamics

The journal movements collects academic, activist and artistic output that deals with migration and border regimes. It fosters exchange between academic discourse and the movements of migration, and thus allows for political debate about our societies in motion. This issue takes as its theme the current developments of the Turkish migration and border regime in the wake of the EUropean migration policies in recent years. The contributors focus, on the one hand, on the so called EU-Turkey Deal and its implications on politics and society in Turkey and its neighborhood and, on the other hand, on the politics of migration and the living conditions of asylum seekers and migrants in Turkey. movements is published in print with transcript and online (open access) at www.movements-journal.org.

Ilker Atac is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna and part of the research group Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion (INEX) as well as founding editor of the journal movements.

Gerda Heck is lecturer in migration studies at the American University of Cairo and research fellow of the "Transit II" research project on the destabilization of the border regime.

Sabine Hess is professor of cultural anthropology at Gottingen University and a founding member of movements.

Zeynep Kasli is a doctoral candidate in near and middle eastern studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, and a member of Migration Researchers Platform in Turkey.

Philipp Ratfisch is a doctoral candidate at the University of Osnabruck, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies.

Cavidan Soykan is a dismissed lecturer in human rights specialized in refugee rights and Turkish asylum law and a member of Multeci-Der.

Bediz Yilmaz-Bayraktar is an urban sociologist and was assistant professor at the University of Mersin. She is currently a fellow at the University of Osnabruck.