Turkey

Expanding Protection Options? Flexible Approaches to Status for Displaced Syrians, Venezuelans, and Ukrainians

Flexible protections for displaced Syrians, Venezuelans, and Ukrainians show temporary status can work at scale, but durable solutions remain elusive for millions.

Ukrainian adults and children arrive at a train station in Hungary

The World’s Leading Refugee Host, Turkey Has a Complex Migration History

The world's top refugee host, Turkey has navigated a complex migration history, while occasionally wielding its role as EU buffer for political leverage.

Rollback of 'Golden Passports' Shows Their Elusive Shine

Citizenship by investment programs offer wealthy individuals fast-track citizenship, but risks, corruption scandals, and legal challenges are eroding their appeal.

The World Is Witnessing a Rapid Proliferation of Border Walls

The number of border walls has grown sixfold since the Cold War. Research shows they serve mainly as political symbols, failing to stop migration, raising costs, and deepening instability.

A construction crew works on a wall the U.S.-Mexico border.

Pushing Borders Outward: The state of asylum globally five years after the EU-Turkey Deal

Marking the launch of an initiative led by MPI and the Robert Bosch Stiftung, this event considers the extent to which externalization strategies such as the EU-Turkey agreement or deals with Libya and now-rescinded U.S. agreements to send asylum seekers to Central America have become the dominant strategies deployed by countries of asylum and how these policies have affected both asylum seekers and host and transit countries.

The EU-Turkey Deal, Five Years On: A Frayed and Controversial but Enduring Blueprint

Five years after the EU-Turkey deal reshaped European migration policy, the agreement has become a contested template for outsourcing border control.

Migrants arrive in Greece on a crowded boat from Turkey.

A Bridge to Firmer Ground: Learning from International Experiences to Support Pathways to Solutions in the Syrian Refugee Context

This report draws on international cases to highlight models that could expand Syrian refugees’ access to protection, social safety nets, and education.

Greece Struggles to Balance Competing Migration Demands

The Greek government promised "strict but fair" migration reforms, but asylum backlogs grew, conditions in refugee camps deteriorated, and reports of unlawful pushbacks mounted.

Amid an Unfolding Humanitarian Crisis in Syria, the European Union Faces the Perils of Devolving Migration Management to Turkey

Turkey's 2020 decision to wave asylum seekers across its territory towards Greece exposed the European Union's reliance on bilateral migration deals to manage Syrian displacement.

A Tightening Grip Abroad: Authoritarian Regimes Target Their Emigrant and Diaspora Communities

Authoritarian governments increasingly use surveillance, extradition, and violence to suppress the dissent of their diasporas abroad.