Köken devletler ve köken devlet politikaları: Türkiye devleti ile Fransa ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nde yaşayan göçmenler arası ilişkiler

In this dissertation I focus on home state's emigrant engagement policies, and the implications of policy changes on emigrants' transnational political practices, as well as home state-emigrant society relations. By using the case of Turkey, I analyze the continuities and changes in the emigrant policies following the critical rupture in early 2000s, when the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government's new approach was solidified with an extensive report presented to the Turkish Grand National Assembly. I discuss the impact of home state policies on emigrant agency by considering their interactions with host state policies. I look at two different host country cases of France and the United States and explore how policies have been implemented and what have been the outcomes on Turkish state's relations with the emigrant communities in these two countries. The aim is to discuss how the two sets of inquiry on cross-border practices in the social sciences literature may complement each other: first one dealing with top-down processes of home states that are reconfiguring their institutional settings and conceptions of membership on non-resident citizens, and second looking into the practices, identities, discourses of emigrants that transcend international borders. The argument of this dissertation is that the implementation of home state emigrant policies has an impact on how the emigrants foster transnational political practices. Looking at the history of Turkish state's emigrant policies, I argue that in the post-2000 period the transition from territorial conception of citizenship from an extra-territorial one had a clear impact on how the home state-emigrant society relations have been constructed. However, the implementation of the state's policy agendas has not been isolated from the ideological factors and messy politics; they contained a set of contestations and negotiations between the state and society actors that are politically loaded.