Social Cash Transfer in Turkey

Ceren Ark-Yıldırım is Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science and Public Administration of Istanbul University, Turkey. Her research focuses on migration, cash transfer programs, and urban governance, and has appeared in journals such as Turkish Studies and South European Policy and Politics. Marc Smyrl is Associate Professor in the department of Political Science at the University of Montpellier, France, where he directs the MA program in International Cooperation and Development. His research on comparative social policy has appeared in journals such as Governance and the Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law.

• 1. Introduction: Citizens, Markets, and Turkey.- 2. Origins and Consequences of Market Citizenship.- 3. The Turkish Context.- 4. Cash Transfer with Turkish Characteristics: Two Local Examples.- 5. Cash Transfer and Humanitarian Assistance.- 6. The Consequences of Ambiguity: Designing and Implementing the ESSN.- 7. Does Cash Transfer Promote Market Citizenship?.