H. Deniz Genc

This study builds on an analytical framework of access to healthcare and, using notes from interviews conducted with 110 migrants of different categories, it discusses the fit between migrant patients and Turkish health services. There is an overall mediocre fit between migrant patients and the Turkish healthcare system, which varies for different migrant groups, and is influenced by the dimensions of awareness, availability, affordability, and accommodation. Migrants’ social capital and socio-economic statuses affect the degree of fit, while irregularities in their legal statuses do not necessarily create a misfit. The existence of many private healthcare institutions offering various services to patients with different incomes and operating in informal ways has improved accessibility, availability, affordability, and accommodation and thus affects the fit positively. Therefore, the health reforms that paved the way for privatization …

Building on a multi-sited transnational ethnography of Central Asian migrant workers in Moscow and Istanbul, legal ethnographers Urinboyev and Eraliev compare Russian and Turkish migration regimes by focusing on Central Asian migrants' experiences of agency, struggles, alliances, negotiations and interactions in arenas including migrants' internal lifeworlds and social networks, migrant labor markets, documentation and legalization practices, shadow economies and street institutions. It adopts a bottom-up approach to compare two non-western migration regimes through the lived experiences of migrants via explorations of their agency and the outcomes of migration policy outputs on the ground. However, the Russian and Turkish migration regimes differ on the ground in terms of migrants' experiences, perceptions, struggles, alliances and interactions in different migration arenas.[Extracted from the article …

By focusing on the question of actorness first, this chapter builds on the textual analysis of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) sections of European Commission Progress Reports on Turkey and it examines Turkish perspectives on European Union (EU) actorness by presenting a thorough discussion on Turkey’s alignment with EU’s CFSP. As the analysis reveals, contradictory to the asymmetrical relationship between the EU and Turkey, Turkey’s alignment with the Union’s foreign policy remained only selective, meaning that Turkey was deliberately not aligning with all common positions, sanctions and statements. In this respect, the analysis sketches a link between Turkey’s alignment to CFSP and EU actorness, and it argues the reasons for low level of alignment in Turkey. Lastly, it is highlighted in this chapter that Turkey could have played a critical role in strengthening and projecting a common …

By building on available literature and interview notes with the NGOs working mainly on refugees and irregular migrants, this study examines the experiences of civil society in Turkey in the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the main findings is that NGOs responded quite early and with agility to the sufferings of people before the state entered into the field and implemented its own rules and methods to deal with the crisis. The study also reveals that the pandemic affected the focus of the NGOs, their services, finances, and working methods in the field. The organizations we examined adapted to a new online working environment which increased demand for their services and aggravated difficulties in assuring clients access to needed healthcare services. The study finds that relations with the local and central governments remain difficult, and during the pandemic, the NGOs were compelled to act …

Bu araştırma, Türkiye’de bulunuş nedenleri üzerinden grupladığı yabancıların sağlık hizmetlerine erişim süreçlerini incelemiştir. Son yıllarda yapılan araştırmalar, Türkiye’ye yönelen yabancıların sayısında ciddi bir artış olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Ülkede bulunan yabancılar oldukça heterojen bir yapı arz etmektedirler ve sağlık hizmetlerine erişim Türkiye’de bulundukları süre içinde en temel ihtiyaçlarından biri olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Türkiye’deki yabancıların sağlık hizmetlerine erişimleri konusuna, çok az sayıda araştırma, yabancıların yasal statüleri (düzenli/düzensiz olmaları) ve/veya sağlık sigortaları çerçevesinde çok dar bir bakış açısı ile değinmektedir. Sağlık Bakanlığı’nın 2011 yılında oluşturduğu ‘uluslararası hasta’ kavramsallaştırması karmaşa sebep olmakta, sağlık turizmi için Türkiye’de bulunan sağlık turistlerini ve ülkede tatillerini geçirirken tedavi olan turistleri kapsamaktadır. Bu tanımın dışında kalan yabancı uyruklu hastalar takip edilmemekte, bu hastaların sağlık hizmetlerine erişim süreçleri hakkında bilgi toplanmamaktadır. Türkiye’deki yabancıları, Türkiye’de bulunuş nedenleri ve göç süreçlerinin üzerinden altı başlık altında (öğrenciler, emekliler, gelin ve damatlar, düzenli çalışanlar, düzensiz göçmenler ve sığınmacılar) toplayan bu keşfedici araştırmanın kapsamı, oldukça heterojen bir yapı arz eden Türkiye’deki yabancıların sağlık hizmetlerine erişim süreçlerinde tabi oldukları farklı yasal prosedürlerin bütüncül bir şekilde araştırılarak ortaya konmasını, bu süreçlerde karşılaştıkları ana problemlerin belirlenmesini, Türkiye’de var olan ‘uluslararası hasta’ kavramsallaştırmasının tartışılmasını, sağlık sisteminin yabancılarla ilgili …