European Union and migration: The case of Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey

In the research, the procces of the European Union, a candidate, a new member and a negotiating country?s migration experiences are compared (Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey). The results of this study are thought to be very important for Turkey, which is already negotiating for EU membership, in that it presents the difficulties Turkey is facing on the way to EU membership. As for the methodology, after the theoretical descriptions which define the borders of the subject are done, economic, politic-legality and social dimensions of international migration are examined. Looked from this point of view, in this study, it is foreseen that becoming an EU member can be a solution to primarily migration ?issues? and ethnic conflicts. In the evaluation of the findings which seem to support this hypothesis, the changes seen in the immigration and emigration dynamics of Bulgaria after it was admitted to EU are accepted as valuable data which determine the motivation of this study.