Ngos and the Eu Regarding the Management of Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Abstract

Based on the assumption that there are different approaches to the activities of non-governmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) implementing migrant and refugee policies, the author attempts to answer the following questions:-What impact can NGOs have on EU Member States and on migrants and refugees?-Can long-term and sustained experience in emergencies have such an impact?-Does the work of the NGO within the Fund, along with international agencies and the Red Cross, affect EU policy and relations with Turkey in this policy area? The article is divided into three parts. In the first, non-state actors (NGOs) are analyzed within the framework of theoretical studies on migration and humanitarian strategy. The second one deals with the EU's relations with Turkey through the aforementioned lenses. Third, empirical funding data provided by ECHO to non-governmental organizations is used to evaluate arrangements and developments. The data is used to evaluate future prospects. The article notes that the events of the last decade have called into question the values and practices of the EU. It is shown that European NGOs seek to play an executive role in the implementation of EU humanitarian projects for Syrian refugee camps in Turkey. The author concludes that non-state actors remain important but controversial actors in the implementation of EU policy. NGOs have different approaches and their ideological and political differences are reflected in their relationship with political power. The author emphasizes the increasing critical attitude towards the lack of EU solidarity, especially in matters of emergency management interventions carried out by non-state SAR operations. Thirdly, the author points out that, in parallel with practices that typically replace states and the EU, NGOs support a consolidated partnership with ECHO. The growing role of non-state actors in managing sensitive global crises such as migration and refugees has been demonstrated. The risk for the EU is the loss of the chance to manage the crisis as a laboratory and a model of functional coordination that can be implemented and secured in the rest of the world system.

Non‐governmental/civil society organisations and the European Union‐externalisation of migration management in Tunisia and Egypt

“…Similarly, migration-related activities in countries of transit and origin can be delegated to IOs (Lavenex, 2016;Wunderlich, 2012) and NGOs/CSOs. More specifically, the EU and its member states have identified NGOs/CSOs in the Southern Mediterranean neighbourhoodespecially the more professionalised and westernised ones (Bürkner & Scott, 2018)-"as natural partners" (Bürkner, 2018, p. 180) in the process of region-building of which the externalisation of migration control is a part: European "funding instruments for migration-related projects in third countries [show] a strong geographical focus on […] the southern Mediterranean" (Den Hertog, 2016, p. 1), and "[i]n many cases, […] the recipients are actually NGOs" (El Qadim, 2019, p. 353; see also Irrera, 2019).…”