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International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) Annual Conference, Tunis, Tunisia, 25 - 29 June 2018, pp.1-24
The administrative resilience thinking has recently attracted remarkable attention on both theoretical and practical accounts in the discipline of public administration. Finding its roots in the notion of resilience, which has a decades-long past in positive sciences-related fields such as ecology, psychology, and biology, administrative resilience has widely been accepted as the long- awaited concept that would generate a brand new beginning for the progress of public administration. This means that from its onset, administrative resilience thinking has been put faith in terms of helping the public administration overcome its present deadlock, mainly caused in the hands of the Governance approach, through providing the desperately needed fresh air to the discipline. Hence, it has recently become commonplace to encounter the intense use of administrative resilience in rising degrees particularly in handling harsh policy challenges such as natural disasters, epidemic diseases, terrorist attacks and economic crises. Moving from this path, the main objective of this study is to examine the recent institutional reform of the migration policy in Turkey, which is basically outlined by the shift from ‘migration policy’ to ‘migration management policy’ in related policy papers, from the standpoint of administrative resilience thinking. In this respect, the emergence of the Directorate General of Migration Management as the primary institutional product of this reform process in 2013 will account for the institutional focal point of this study.