İstanbul İçin Expat-Dostu Kamu Politikası: Söylemden Eyleme Geçme Zamanı

Year 2015, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 9 - 30, 11.08.2015

Recep Bozlağan Nail Yılmaz , Murat Daoudov Lauranne Callet-ravat

Abstract

Gelişmiş ülkelerde, ekonomik rekabet edebilirliğin güçlendirilmesi için kilit öneme sahip sayılan
araçlar içerisinde, kaliteli insan gücünün çekilmesi söylemi giderek yükselmektedir. Bu olgu bilhassa
şehir markacılığı ile yetenekleri ve yatırımcıları çekme konularına yapılan vurgular şeklinde yerel
düzeyde de görünür hale gelmekte, yerel/bölgesel yönetimler de artık bu alanda daha fazla aktif
olmaktadır. Türkiye de artan ölçüde bu söylemi, ulusal ve yerel planlar gibi siyaset belgelerinde
benimsemekte; “çekim merkezi” olma ve vasıflı iş günücü çekme hedefini vurgulamaktadır.
Bu politikanın başarısı için İstanbul kilit uygulama alanı olarak önemli rol oynamaktadır. Bu
çerçevede Türkiye göç politikasını dönüştürmekte ve modernleştirmekte, ve yabancıların veya
expatların hayat ve çalışması için uygun şartları oluşturacak çeşitli politika ve uygulamalara
olan ihtiyacı açıkça dile getirmektedir. Ancak bu yaklaşım, ister merkezî ister yerel/metropoliten
yönetim düzeyinde olsun, kamu kurumları veya kamu sektörü potikaları üzerinde etki yapacak
oranda ve expatlar için görünür olacak şekilde eylemlere henüz dönüştürülememiştir. İstanbul’da
kamu hizmetleri hakkında expatların algısını ölçmeye yönelik yazarlarca gerçekleştirilen anketin
çıktılarının analizi ile diğer kaynaklar ışığında yapılan değerlendirmeler, üst seviyedeki söyleme
rağmen, bu alanda kamu kurumlarının somut politikalarının sahada eksik olduğu kanaatini
oluşturmaktadır. Binaenaleyh makale, expat-dostu kamu politikasını geliştirmeye yönelik bazı
tavsiyeleri sunmaktadır.

Keywords

Expat, Vasıflı İş Göçü, İnsan Kaynağını Çekme, Göç Politikası, Uyum Politikası, Expat-Dostu Kamu Politikası.

İstanbul İçin Expat-Dostu Kamu Politikası: Söylemden Eyleme Geçme Zamanı

Abstract

In the developed countries there is a growing discourse about attracting human capital as one of the key tools to strengthen the economic competitiveness. This phenomenon is also visible at local level, notably through increasing focus on city branding and emphasis on attraction of talents and investors, and increased involvement of local/regional governments in this field. Turkey also steadily adopts similar discourse in its policy documents such as the national and local plans and strategy papers; these documents emphasize the goal of becoming “center of attraction” and gaining qualified labor force. Istanbul plays an important role as a major experimentation site for the success of such policy. In this framework Turkey transforms and modernizes its migration policy, and the officials call for various policies and practices that would create favorable living and working conditions for foreigners or expats. However this approach is not yet translated into concrete actions that would have tangible impact on public sector policies and institutions in Istanbul, whether central or local/metropolitan government units, and that would be visible to the expats themselves. The analysis of the findings of the survey realized by the authors in order to measure the perception of public services in Istanbul by the expats, combined with other resources, suggests that, despite the higher level discourse, public institutions lack concrete policies on the ground. The article therefore formulates several recommendations to raise the awareness of decision-makers and to develop expat-friendly public policy in Istanbul

Keywords

Expat, Qualified Labor Migration, Attraction of Human Capital, Migration Policy

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