INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION IN THE TWENTY – FIRST CENTURY I | Global Education and Culture Studies

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26 Haziran 2020 / İstanbul

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION IN THE TWENTY – FIRST CENTURY

The conference on International Migration in the twenty-first Century was held at Yeditepe University in cooperation with Yeditepe University Global Education and Culture Research Application and Research Center (KEKAM) and World Academy of Local Government and Democracy Foundation (WALD). Academicians and students from our university, as well as the founding presidents of the ISTEK Foundation and Yeditepe University, Bedrettin Dalan, and Professor Doctor Canan Aykut Bingöl, served as guests. In her opening remarks, Associate Professor Gökçe Bayındır Goularas, director of the Yeditepe University Global Education and Culture Research Application and Research Center (KEKAM), thanked everyone who had helped with the conference's planning and noted that this was the center's first major event and that going forward, significant events would be held there. Bedrettin Dalan, the founding president of the ISTEK Foundation and Yeditepe University, stated in his speech that all people are ethnic and genetic close relatives and that mankind is nomads by nature. Bedrettin Dalan said, "Mankind's humanity has become much more brutal and more egoistic than our hunter-gatherer ancestors, expressing that people's shares have declined over time. He said, "We are looking for humanity in dead humanity. Dalan continued, noting that Turkey accepts 3.5 million Syrian refugees: "Turks are sharing. A Muslim is a person who sleeps while a neighbor is hungry. There will be a lot of injustice in the world if there is a lot of foreign migration. Western nations marginalize those who are not like them even as they strive for a certain level of harmony among themselves. It is referred to as western culture. They have a low-humanitarian, high-tech mindset. If these significant differences persist, a third global war will break out.” Mehmet Duman, Chairman of the WALD Board of Directors, stated that they are preparing a project for the improvement of refugees and that they will develop practices with the EU to contribute to the integration of immigrants and to deal with migration problems at the local level. International Migration in the 21st Century, where “Current Developments in the Field of Migration and Asylum Law”, “Migration and Integration”, “Syrian Refugees and Migration”, Migration, Women and Children”, Immigration Policies”, Migration and Economic Development” and “Migration and Culture” are discussed. The conference lasted two days.