From The Guest Editor

It is an interesting coincidence that the “Revisiting Migration in International Relations” special issue of the Uluslararası İlişkiler journal was published in 2021. Not only does 2021 mark the 70th anniversary of 1951 Geneva Convention, which identified the status of refugees, but it is also the 60th anniversary of the Turkey-German labour force agreement in 1961 as well as the 10th anniversary of the first arrival of Syrian refugees in Turkey in 2011. The number of Syrians fleeing their country now exceeds 6.6 million, and Turkey has been hosting the largest number of refugees in the world since 2014. Moreover, the effects of this phenomenon on Europe and the world, as well as global efforts to address this challenge have opened new paths both for academic literature and the international relations field to expand its inquiries. This development has also strikingly revealed the limits and dearth of secondary literature on migration.