The road to the EU Turkey Refugee Deal
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2018-08-13
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On March 18, 2015, an agreement between the European Union and Turkey was implemented
aimed at the reduction of irregular migrant crossing to the EU. Though the EU-Turkey
readmission agreement presented a solution to the European refugee crisis, which had been at
its height in 2015, the details of the agreement were almost immediately criticized. The
agreement stated that Turkey would be a safe third country for refugees, under which terms
the EU could return migrants -who had crossed into Greece through Turkey- back to Turkey.
Amongst the opponents to the deal were several humanitarian agencies and the United
Nations who problematized the designation of Turkey as a safe third country due to the
nations troubled record with human rights. These concerns had in the past also been voiced by
the EU and individual EU member states. The apparent change in the framing of Turkey
suggests the desecuritization of Turkey. This thesis uses a frame analysis to investigate the
frames that were used to describe Turkey in Dutch discourse and uses theory-testing processtracing
to test whether a process of desecuritization can be observed in the Turkish case.
Drawing on securitization theory, the research identifies the presence of desecuritization
frames and provides evidence that shows that part of the desecuritization mechanism that was
deductively gathered from the securitization literature is present.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen