Challenging “Migration Governance” in the Middle East and Turkey: Dynamic Power Relations, Contested Interventions, and Individual Strategies

Abstract

rigid interventions, and an explicit political reform agenda ​through which transnational actors – generally from “developed” countries – can pass their normativities, with little regard to local contexts. ​These judgements contribute in concealing power dynamics that underlie the governance of migration. Furthermore, they fail to question who has the ultimate decision-making power and legitimacy to determine the ground rules of what constitutes good governance.