Causes and Consequences of the Downturn in Financial Remittances to Turkey: A Descriptive Approach

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This book is produced as part of the Marie Curie Research Training Network on "Transnationality of Migrants", TOM, which is funded by the European Commission through the Human Resources and Mobility action of its Sixth Framework (MRTN-CT-2006) under grant agreement No. 035873. The views expressed in this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.We would like to thank the contributors for their valuable efforts to make the completion of this edited volume possible. We are very grateful to (ex-) Senior Programme Officer Anna Pietka at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) for supporting us. We would like to thank Daria Braun and Dr. Yaşar Aydın for helping at the earlier workshop organization.We appreciated the collaboration of our partners, the TurkeiEuropaZentrum (TEZ) and the Transatlantic Academy.We would also like to tender our thanks to Alessandro Gatto who was so kind to share his award-winning cartoon entitled "Migrant" as the front page of our book.We are very grateful to all of our colleagues at Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) and the University of Hamburg who provided encouragement. Special thanks to Elzbieta Linke for her invaluable efforts in the publishing process of this book.und-integration/projekte/migration-und-integration/tuerkei-und-migration.html.