This book presents a study of labour migration from Turkey to the West during the official recruitment period of 1960-1974. For the first time, this migration movement is considered within its historical context.

The author analyses the impact of migratory movements to and from Turkey before 1960 on the migration process, as well as Turkey’s own modernisation-Westernisation policies in the Republican era and the historical dimensions of relations between Turkey and the West in the postwar years.

Last but not least, the study shows why, and under what circumstances, the guest worker system was introduced in Western Europe. The author makes use of extensive sources and draws on both historiography and social science of migration.

This title is published in the IMISCOE-AUP Book Series. In co-operation with the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) the IMISCOE Network has created five IMISCOE book series.

Labour Migration from Turkey to Western Europe is the first ever study of the labour migration from Turkey to the West that makes use of all available sources, that draws on both historiography and social sciences of migration, that adopts a multidisciplinary approach, and that covers the whole migration process and addresses the characteristics of migrants.

The IMISCOE-AUP Book Series are part of IMISCOE which is an EU funded Network of Excellence in the Sixth Framework Programme

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Ahmet Akgündüz is a social scientist attached to the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at the University of Amsterdam

research

Urban Policy

Social inclusion & integration