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Development as a determinant of non-migration: case of Turkey

Focusing on the related literature over the questions of ‘why do people migrate’ and ‘why do they not migrate’, this article intends to analyse non-migration in Turkey and evaluate the influence of the country’s development on people’s decreasing aspirations of migrating abroad. While debating these questions and their answers, this article examines the assumptions in the literature that there is need for a careful assessment of development–migration linkage, which tackles the threshold of development in the countries of origin that leads to non-migration as well as migration. The aims of this study were threefold: first, it looks at an under-studied issue of the relationship between development and non-migration; second, it approaches this relationship from a comprehensive and analytical perspective; and third, it focuses on the persistent empirical importance of development as a determinant of non-migration in Turkey with its rising implications for Turkey’s affairs with the European Union at the background.