Globalization, Security, and Migration: The Case of Turkey

The idea that intense processes of globalization force us to rethink state-centric approach to issue of in post-Cold War era is gaining currency in both academic and public discourse. The world is no longer marked by sense of certainty, trust, and modernity is supposed to provide in societal and international relations. From ethnic and religious cleansing to environmental hazards, a funda mental shift has occurred in meaning and actors of relations. And what Anthony Giddens terms ontological uncertainty/insecurity is becoming a constitutive element of life in post-Cold War era.1 At a time when writing involves not only interstate relations but also (and more important) identity, body, and ecology and when the greater dangers and contingencies are global in character, there is a need to go beyond state-centric approach and analyze critically link between globalization and security.2 If processes of globalization have potential to make issue of a complex, complicated, and multidimen sional one whose ambiguous nature cannot be captured within limits of interstate relations, we argue that attention should be paid to exploring various ways in which link between globalization and is con structed historically and discursively.3 In this essay, we attempt to do so by focusing on as one of significant sites at which effects of globalization in framing secu rity relations can be seen clearly. To extent that migration is both a result of global change, and a powerful force for further change in mi grant-sending and receiving societies,4 it constitutes a crucial site at which one can see how processes of globalization make discourse of much more complex and multilayered. In other words, we could argue more specifically that regimes of nation-states (largely framed by state-centric logic of Cold War) are becoming problem atic and ineffective as flows in a globalizing world are becom ing multilayered and not easily controlled by nation-states. Also in this context, can be seen as integral to discourse of with regard to ways in which nation-states tend to deal with flows as a security threat.5 383