Migration and

Intercultural Civil
Society Dialogue In
Frame of Collaboration
and Multilevel
Governance

ISTANBUL COMMERCE UNIVERSITY

Address: Örnektepe Mah. Imrahor Cad. No: 88/2 Z-42,
34445 Beyoglu, Istanbul / TURKEY
E –Mail: armando.aliu@istanbulticaret.edu.tr
Website: https://migrationandrefugees.weebly.com/ MIGRATION AND REFUGEES PROJECT 1
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 CONTENTS

I. PROJECT SUMMARY
II. OVERALL OBJECTIVES
III. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
IV. PROJECT’S AIMS
V. POTENTIAL STAKEHOLDERS
VI. SCOPE
VII. REGIONAL IMPLEMENTATION
VIII. METHODOLOGY
IX. TIMELINE
X. ANNEX I: EXPECTED RESULTS & IMPACTS
XI. ANNEX II: SHARING THE PROJECT OUTCOMES

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 PROJECT SUMMARY

One of the purposes of the project is the creation of theoretical and practical
mechanisms which will be able to ensure a controlling migration approach and
ideal governance in frame of cooperation, intercultural civil society dialogue
and multilevel governance for more effective and accurate strategies, policies
and scenarios.
In this context, the legitimacy and effectiveness in frame of national and
international migration legislation and the new legal regulations will be
structured on scientific foundations in order to examine the significant effects
of ‘authority/authorisation, collaboration and stakeholder approach’ on
controlling migration mechanism.

Keywords: Migration Legislation, Migration Policies, Intercultural Civil Society

Dialogue, Stakeholders, Collaboration, Multilevel Governance
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 PROJECT SUMMARY

Multilevel governance and collaborations are considered as an indispensable

cooperation and voluntary or strategic efforts of state, private actors and non -
profit organisations.
Functionally, multilevel governance, collaboration and intercultural civil
society dialogue work better with state actors (government, municipality and
so on) and non-state actors (private actors, civil society organisations, NGOs,
Lobby Groups and so on) equally participating in various industries.
The cooperation amongst public sector – private sector – civil society parts
has an effective role at creating strategies, determining plans and forecasting
models.

Keywords: Migration Legislation, Migration Policies, Intercultural Civil Society

Dialogue, Stakeholders, Collaboration, Multilevel Governance
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 PROJECT SUMMARY

For instance, the projects and events of the United Nations, International Organization
for Migration (UN-IOM) and the Directorate-General of the European Commission -
Migration and Home Affairs, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Interior – Directorate General
of Migration Management and Republic of Turkey Ministry for EU Affairs are the most
convenient and productive works in the context of multilevel governance, collaboration
and intercultural civil society dialogue.
Keywords: Migration Legislation, Migration Policies, Intercultural Civil Society
Dialogue, Stakeholders, Collaboration, Multilevel Governance
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 OVERALL OBJECTIVES

Overall objectives of the project are listed as such:

1. Investigating the process of involvement of civil society within state-private partnerships
and empirically comparing/ measuring the civil society based UK and German
projects/cases which are likely to be implemented in Western Balkans and Turkey;
2. Examining effective collaboration amongst public sector – private sector – civil society
with taking into account regional governance and multilevel governance;
3. In the context of judicial, sociological and political aspects of international migration and
intercultural civil society dialogue, the research will be focused on active state -private
sector-civil society networks in the Western Balkan Region and Marmara Region in Turkey.
Thereafter, a comparative analysis will be done by using the cases of South East England
Region in UK and Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria Regions in Germany.
4. Furthermore, the influence of intercultural interactions of migrants in selected regions
will be examined from the perspective of pedagogical formation, multiculturalism, multi -
lingualism dimensions of migrants education.

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 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

Specific objectives of the project are listed as follows:

Researching i) (quasi)indirect centralisation and enhancement of Political Actors
(Elites) authority/position;
ii) the public and private sphere dichotomy;
iii) political atmosphere/capacity development, political economy of interest
mediation and organisational sociology;
iv) the strategic operations of voluntary sector and non-profit organisations;
v) the heterogeneity and pluralism level of state and non-state actors;
vi) the stability and incremental improvements of institution-based platforms;

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 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

vii) the consciousness level of foundationalism, cooperationalism,

institutionalism, social responsibility and philanthropic actions/global
philanthropy;
viii) the accountability and transparency of state;
ix) the legitimacy and effectiveness of the activities/efforts of non-state actors in
the framework of (quasi)indirect centralisation process (supra) and the
participation level at local decisionmaking (Infra);
x) the nexus of voice (democratic participation) and entitlement (legal/social
rights and duties) of civic society.

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 PROJECT’S AIMS

One of the purposes of the project is the creation of theoretical

and practical mechanisms which will be able to ensure a controlling
migration approach and ideal governance in frame of cooperation,
intercultural civil society dialogue and multilevel governance for
more effective and accurate strategies, policies and scenarios.

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 PROJECT’S AIMS

The project also enables:

• Helping to control illegal migration with a proactive vision and transform
mala fide migration to bona fide migration form;
• Stabilising migration turbulence (particularly the legal/illegal migration
flows) through controlling mechanisms and good migration governance
within the framework of collaborative actions, intercultural civil society
dialogue and multilevel governance;
• Create a platform in which people share their experiences, increase equal
opportunity and active participation, enhance engagement of migrants to
diaspora events and ethnic enclaves, maximise benefits and minimise
negative effects, and enhance the humane of migration from a holistic
perspective;
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 PROJECT’S AIMS

• Enhancing communicative action amongst home, transit and host countries

and develop mechanisms for these countries to facilitate the exchange of
information, create ground for networking and ensure a communication
platform. With a specific focus to migrants-civil society dialectic,
collaborative actions, intercultural civil society dialogue and multilevel
governance will create social and competitive harmony.

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POTENTIAL STAKEHOLDERS
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMISSION, MIGRATION AND HOME AFFAIRS
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION
UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES
REPUBLIC OF TURKEY MINISTRY OF INTERIOR –
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF MIGRATION MANAGEMENT
GESIS – LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES
ISTANBUL COMMERCE UNIVERSITY
WORLD REFUGEE COUNCIL
DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL
SWIDISH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
COOPERATION AGENCY
SWISS NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

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 SCOPE

The scope of the research covers various generation of people who migrated
from Western Balkans and Turkey to the UK and Germany, students, young
etrepreneurs, people who are looking for jobs, young women who have
children and want to create small-scale works, old and invalid people, people
who have illness and need heathcare support. There will be given support to
people who are in need of help through social-entrepreneural actions and
operations that are in the context of moral values. There will be efforts to
tackle with problems of the target groups and find optimal solutions in this
respect.

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 SCOPE

One of the most crucial research targets is to extend the scope of stakeholders participation
level, substantially. In this way, active participation and collaboration amongst miscellaneous
stakeholders (e.g. CSOs, NGOs, Local Civic Groups and Commercial Institutions,
Organisations that are associated with Consumers, Women and Youth, Training and Education
Institutions, Cultural and Scientific Research Institutions, Municipality and Local Networks,
Epistemic Communities, Lobby Groups, Cooperatives, Works Councils and so forth) can be
maintained in the context of multilevel governance and intercultural civil society dialogue.

UK, Germany, Turkey and six countries of Western Balkans are nine countries that will benefit
from the proposed project. During the project’s duration, the project team will invite the
experts for in-depth interviews in order to share their experiences and enhance reciprocal
relationships.

The project outcomes will ascertain by illuminating to what extent the comparative cases in
selected three regions have convergence / divergence in frame of civil society dialogue,
collaborative actions and multilevel governance.

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 REGIONAL IMPLEMENTATION

The research will be focused on active state-private sector-civil society

networks. The companies, civil society organisations, representatives of state
actors and networks were determined for the investigation’s regional
implementation.
Throughout the research, there will be a particular focus to public sector,
private sector and civil society networks in the Western Balkans and Marmara
Region in Turkey (i.e. case studies). The industrial structure, demographic
characteristics, strong corporations’ clusters in the selected region and the
effective activities of civil society organisations in various sectors are
significant at overlapping with structural efficiency of our project’s targets.
Thereafter, a comparative analysis will be conducted by using the cases of
South East England Region in the UK and Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria
Regions in Germany.

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 REGIONAL IMPLEMENTATION

To achieve the goals of the project the following task will be performed:
Comparative Empirical Analyses of UK, Germany, Western Balkan
Countries and Turkey: The project will conduct comparative empirical
investigations to support the collaboration amongst various cities of
aforementioned three regions in order to deal with multidimensional and
multicausal aspects such as: migration and development, foreign affairs and
governance, international law and politics, macro-economics and innovation,
research and development (R&D) and networking. It is in favour of the
common interests and convergence of selected countries to compare such
data with global trends in emerging research domains to evaluate the areas
of strengths.

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 METHODOLOGY

According to the research techniques and methodology, the project’s arguments will
be methodologically tested through using positivism, case study research,
constructivist and normative approaches. In the project, the factors that will be
examined are listed as follows: i) the identification, discovery and description of
research problem; ii) the formulation of the problem precisely; iii) the identification of
research variables and inter-relations amongst them; and iv) the development of
hypotheses that will be essential for further studies.

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 METHODOLOGY

Positivism: This approach supports a quantitative methodology and generally utilises a

hypothesis approach, which is then tested empirically, as the ontological perspective dictates
that objective enquiry provides a true and predictive knowledge of external reality (Zahra &
Ryan 2005; Moutinho 2012). The goal of positivism is scientific explanation whereas the
purpose of social science is the “understanding of the meaning of social phenomena”.

Constructivism: Constructivism, broadly conceived, is the thesis that knowledge cannot be a

passive reflection of reality, but has to be more of an active construction by an agent.
Although this view has its roots in the ideas of Kant, the term was first coined by Piaget to
denote the process whereby an individual constructs its view of the world (Healy & Perry 2000;
Zahra & Ryan 2005; Moutinho 2012). In other words, constructivism is a social scientific
perspective that addresses how realities are made. This perspective presumes that people,
including researchers, construct the realities in which they participate. Constructivist inquiry
starts with the experience and asks how members construct it. To the best of their ability,
constructivists enter the phenomenon, gain multiple views of it, and locate it in its web of
connections and constraints. Constructivists acknowledge that their interpretation of the
studied phenomenon is itself a construction (Bryant & Charmaz 2007).
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 METHODOLOGY

A contemporary dispute within constructivist social science is evidenced in the systems theory
concept of autopoesis. Systems theory researchers, while acknowledging the constructivist
activity of the mind, argue that science can offer something other than just scientific
constructions. There is something more to science than science. What emerges from the
empirical process in systems theory is access to a set of self-regulating structures that are
uninfluenced by human agency – a concept similar to the idea of the self-organising and
operationally closed systems of natural science (Botterill 2001).

From ontological viewpoint, constructivism covers relativistic approach which acknowledges

the fact that knowledge is socially constructed, local, and specific. It covers multiple local and
specific “constructed” realities (Healy & Perry 2000; Riley & Love 2000). From epistemological
viewpoint, constructivism is subjectivistic (i.e. knowledge created and coproduced by
researcher and subject) and epistemologically relativistic (not relist!) as well (Botterill 2014).
From methodological viewpoint, constructivism contains a process of reconstructing multiple
realities through informed consensus. Likewise, constructivism is synthesis oriented and has a
hermeneutical/dialectical understanding in which researcher is a “passionate participant”
within the world being investigated (Healy & Perry 2000; Riley & Love 2000).
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 METHODOLOGY

The study will also engage case study research which is an empirical inquiry
that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real life context
when the boundaries between the phenomenon and context are not clearly
evident; and in which multiple sources of evidence are used (Eisenhardt 1989;
Yin 2003). Case study research will enable to justify the research arguments
and structure the practice-oriented aspects of the investigation.

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 METHODOLOGY

Eisenhardt (1989) advocates within-case analysis followed by a cross-case

pattern search or explanation building. Eisenhardt suggests that this process
is facilitated by the selection of pertinent categories, followed by a search for
within-group similarity and inter-group differences. These categories can be
those suggested by the literature or can simply be chosen by the researcher.
The major themes discovered through the cross-case analysis are then
compared with both similar and conflicting literature in an attempt to build
theoretical consistency. Eisenhardt refers to this stage as “enfolding
literature”. This process helps to build internal validity and shape the
theoretical contribution of the findings.

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THE TIMELINE

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 ANNEX I: EXPECTED RESULTS & IMPACTS
Expected Results Project Outcomes and Impacts

Edited Book: The edited book that is entitled “New Visions and Global Perspectives
in Multilevel Governance” will be submitted to Springer for publishment.
Book: The book that is entitled “International Migration and Intercultural Dialogue:
Global Governance, Democratisation and Controlling Migration” will be sent to Peter
Lang Publishing House for publishment.
Article: The article that is entitled “Tolerance, Migration and Hybrid Identities:
Normative Reasoning of Intercultural Dialogue in a Blurring Structure” was
presented in ICPESS 2016 and published by International Journal of Political Studies
Scientific / Academic (PESA).
(Article, Proceeding, Book) Article: The article that is entitled “An Examination of Migration Phenomenon in
Frame of Legislation, Policies and Scientific Investigations in Turkey ” was presented
in the 2nd International Congress of Applied Sciences (UUBK 2016) – a congress
supported by IOM and UNHCR - and published by Necmettin Erbakan University
Journal of Social Sciences.
Congress Proceeding: The paper that is entitled “Migration and Refugees’ Law and
Regulations in the EU and Western Balkans: A Comparative Migration Governance
Perspective” was accepted by 24th World Congress of Political Science (IPSA 2016
World Congress).
It is estimated that the project outcomes will comprise many scientific materials,
Economic/Commercial/Social
scientific events, website and so forth.
The project will contribute to the scientific career of Mr. Armando Aliu who is a PhD
Recruitment of Researchers and the Effects on Other Research Fellow in the Department of International Commerce and the EU Law at Istanbul
Projects Commerce University and Mr. Dorian Aliu who is writing a PhD Dissertation at
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Type of the Action
(Meeting, Workshop, Training, Website Stakeholders/ Potential Beneficiaries Time and Duration of the Action
etc.)
For Government Authorities and State Actors
Strategy and policy papers within the scope of ‘Multilevel
Strategy Paper Governance, Migration and Intercultural Civil Society Dialogue’ will Between 25-30 Months
be presented to the Directorate-General of the European
Commission - Migration and Home Affairs, UNHCR and IOM.

For Academic Staff, Students and Interested Audience

A conference entitled “Migration and Intercultural Civil Society
Conference Between 20-30 Months
Dialogue in Frame of Collaborations and Multilevel Governance”
will be organised.

For Internet Users

All data files, information packages and scientific outcomes will be
Website Between 30-36 Months
deposited to a website (virtual platform) i.e.
(http://www.migrationandrefugeesproject.org).

Migrants, Researchers and Experts in Germany

Seminar A Seminar entitled “Multilevel Governance, Migration and Between 15-36 Months
Intercultural Civil Society Dialogue” will be organised.

Academic Communities
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Strategy and Policy Papers: The project aims to produce strategy and policy
papers with the most relevant research lines in international migration,
multilevel governance, collaboration theory, intercultural civil society
dialogue, conflict management, regional development, Europeanisation and
democratisation, rule of law, migration and refugees’ law and legalisation, and
pedagogical formation in migrants and refugees integration process. To
enhance the quality of these documents, the project consortium will be
created by means of involving an international scientific network which
includes both state and non-state actors.

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2. STAGE 3. STAGE
THE RESEARCH AIMS TO GAIN THE RESEARCH AIMS TO GAIN
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL OF THE OTHER INSTITUTIONS. THE
EUROPEAN COMMISSION - PROJECT BUDGET WILL BE
MIGRATION AND HOME AFFAIRS IN INCREASED AROUND 1,2 MILLION
FRAME OF THE INSTRUMENT FOR EURO. THE DURATION OF THE
PRE-ACCESSION ASSISTANCE II PROJECT WILL BE 5 YEARS.
2014 - 2020 (IPA II).
Further Information:
https://erc.europa.eu/funding-and-grants/funding-schemes/starting-
Further Information: grants
http://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-
enlargement/instruments/overview_en

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