Abstract:

The ongoing Syrian issue, which culminated in March 2015 and still continues, has led to an influx of refugees into European countries – exacerbating the current European migration crisis. In this immigration problem, it is seen that Greece's national immigration policy has changed compared to its previous policies with the perspective of securitization. Greece determines a different immigration and integration policy against the influx of immigration from the Aegean Sea. Measures implemented by Greece to manage the crisis, such as camp points, immigration registration, border control and fence construction in the Evros region, are seen as an attempt to quickly address refugee flows. The main question of the study; Have Greece's immigration and integration policies changed with the refugee crisis after 2015? What is the recent national integration of Greece? What is Greece's recent national immigration policy? What is Greece's new (from 2020) National Integration Policy in the context of migration and security? In the study, in the conceptual framework, security and migration, refugee etc. with Greek bibliography. concepts will be defined, and the securitization approach envisaged by the Copenhagen School will be mentioned in the theoretical framework. In the immigration-based securitization approach, Greece's Immigration and Refugee phenomenon will be discussed. The main point to be emphasized in the context of the study is that the national migration and integration policies have changed with the securitization of the term migration by Greece. On the other hand, it is one of the important issues discussed in the study that Greece revised its immigration policies in the context of Europeanization in its desire to integrate its national borders and national security with the European Union. In this study, it is aimed to explain the perception of securitization on the migration policy of Lesbos, Moria Camp, and Greece's migration policy after the 2015 refugee crisis, which happened at the first stops of the migrations coming from the Aegean Sea in Greece. The aim of the study is to show the authorities the recent migration perception of Greece with the research examined within the framework of securitization.

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