Demographic Anxiety in Turkey

Sefa Secen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nazareth University, Rochester, NY. Secen received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University in July 2022. He completed a two-year postdoc at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University. He primarily studies party policies and public attitudes toward refugees with a focus on the social construction of threat and security perceptions. Secen’s research has been published in journals and media outlets, including the Journal of Global Security Studies, Politics, Groups, and Identities, European Politics and Society, Turkish Studies, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, Forced Migration Review, the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, TIME, the Washington Post, and the Conversation. Serhun Al received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Utah in 2015. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. He was a visiting scholar at Ohio State University during the 2022-23 academic year. His research interests include politics of identity, nationalism and ethnic conflict, and security studies within the context of modern Turkey and the Kurdish Middle East. He is the author of Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey (Routledge, 2019) and the co-editor of Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East (Palgrave, 2018). His articles have been published in journals such as Ethnopolitics, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Nationalities Papers, Globalizations, Journal of International Relations and Development, Turkish Studies, and Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresAbout the AuthorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Introduction: Migration and the Age of Demographic Anxiety2. Theoretical Frameworks and Methodology3. Reconfiguring the Nation: Transformations in Identity and Turkish Nationalism from Atatürk to Erdoğan4. History of Migration in Turkey5. From the Arab Spring to the Refugee Influx: Repositioning Turkey in the New Middle East6. EU-Turkey Relations in the Refugee Crisis7. Arabs In, Turks Out: Emigrations from Erdoğan's Turkey8. Refugees, Far Right and New Electoral Dynamics9. Conclusion: The Age of Demographic Anxiety in Turkey and BeyondBibliographyIndex