TÜRKIYE’DE GÖÇ YÖNETİMİ POLİTİKA TASARISI OLARAK VATANDAŞLIK SINAVI

Yıl 2020, Cilt: 9 Sayı: 1, 161 - 178, 30.06.2020

Elçin İstif İnci

Öz

Bu makale Türkiye’nin göç yönetimi
alanında vatandaşlık sınavı uygulanması tasarısına odaklanmaktadır. Cumhuriyet
tarihinde alınan en yüksek göçü düzenlemek için yapılan düzenlemelere rağmen,
Türkiye uzun vadede daha kapsamlı ve sistematik bir yaklaşıma ihtiyaç duymaktadır.
Göçün vatandaşlığa öncülük yaptığı düşünüldüğünde, birçok ülkenin göçü ve
vatandaşlığa kabulü vatandaşlık kriterleri ve sınavları ile düzenlediği
görülmektedir. Bu çalışma için vatandaşlık sınavı örnekleri, tarih boyunca
yaygın olarak göç alan ülkeler olmaları sebebiyle Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
ve Birleşik Krallık uygulamalarından alınmıştır. İlki vatandaşlık sınavlarında
görece tecrübeli iken, ikincisi daha yeni ve detaylı bir model benimsemektedir.
Türkiye’nin neden bu düzenlemeye ihtiyacı olduğu, kendi vatandaşlık sınavı
tasarımında bu ülke örneklerinden ne ölçüde faydalanabileceği ve ne tür bir
sınavın Türkiye için daha uygun olacağı bu makalede tartışılacaktır. Türkiye
için tasarlanan sınav modeli sistematik bir biçimde verilecektir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Vatandaşlık, Vatandaşlığa kabul, Göç, Entegrasyon, Türkiye

CITIZENSHIP TEST AS A MIGRATION POLICY PROPOSAL IN TURKEY

Öz

This article focuses on proposing a
citizenship test as a tool in Turkey’s migration management policies. Despite
making new implementations to adjust and accommodate the highest level of
migration in its republican history, Turkey needs a more comprehensive and
systematic approach to the issue in the long run. As migration leads to
naturalization in most cases, many countries prefer to regulate migration and
naturalization with citizenship criteria as well as citizenship tests for their
prospective citizens. For this study, citizenship test examples are taken from
The United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) practices since they have
been among the most popular countries for immigration throughout history. While
the former has a relatively long experience in citizenship tests, the latter
supports a new and more elaborated model. To what extent does Turkey take any
of these countries as a model in the design of its own citizenship test? The
question of why Turkey needs such regulation and what kind of test would be
plausible will be discussed in this article. A proposed testing model will be
given systematically specific to the Turkish case.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Citizenship, Naturalization, Migration, Integration, Turkey

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