Abstract:

Immigration, which is called as the human dimension of globalization, has a large impact on the culture, economy and politics of the states. With globalization, the wave of migration throughout the world has intensi�ied; the number of legal and illegal immigration and seeking refugees has reached large points as well as has come to include more countries. One of most important of the problems that has faced by European Union, which started in order to achieve a common economic policy after the Second World War and began gradually moving towards a political formation, is immigration toward Union’s territories from outside. Turkey, which is regarded as a country that stands at the intersection of migration in both historical as well as geographical location, could not build a comprehensive immigration policy until the 2000s. In this study, the progress of the European Union and Turkey’s immigration policies will be discussed in the light of the historical background. Nevertheless, the underlying causes of the conditions behind Turkey’s failure to prepare a national migration strategy that can generate the required policies by examining the longterm development will be discussed, despite the EU’s impact on Turkey’s full membership process

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