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Describes integration of Turkish immigrants, their communal, organizational, and political activities, and socioeconomic characteristics; includes survey data for 33 members of the Cleveland-Akron, Ohio metropolitan area's Turkish immigrant community and historical retrospective on Turkish immigration to the US since the early 1900s.

This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies' demands from educational institutions are examined. In the last section, current policies in the international education sector, which is growing day by day as a result of increasing globalization and internationalization, are examined and future trends are tried to be revealed. In articles written by academics from different universities all over the world, the topics are presented in a comparative perspective.

Uluslararası eğitimin toplumlar üzerinde köklü ve kalıcı etkilere neden olması, toplumlar arasında sempatik ilişkiler kurulmasına ve etkileşime yol açması onu kullanışlı bir dış politika aracı yapmaktadır. Türkiye de 1950'li, 1990'lı ve 2010'lu yıllardaki aktif dış politika uygulamalarında uluslararası kamuoyunu etkilemek, kendisine müzahir kılmak, uluslararasılaşmak, çevre coğrafyasında nüfuz alanını genişletmek
amacıyla uluslararası eğitimi kamu/kültür/eğitim diplomasisi şeklinde bir yumuşak güç unsuru olarak kullanmıştır. Türkiye'nin dış politikası ve uluslararası eğitim stratejisi paralellik göstermiş, 1950'lerde Batı bloğu politikalarına endeksli, 1990'larda kültürel diplomasi ağırlıklı, 2010'larda ise kültürel diplomasiyle birlikte terör ve radikalleşmeyle mücadele, küresel etkili bölgesel güç olma, istikrarsız coğrafyaları
normalleştirme, çok taraflı ve çok katmanlı dış politikasına destek sunma, Türk dünyasında işbirliğini derinleştirme politikalarında uluslararası eğitim Türk dış politikasının en önemli gündemlerinden birisi olmuştur.

ABSTRACTAs part of on-going multidimensional foreign policy changes in recent years, there has been since 1998 a revival in Turkey's relations with Africa. Initially rather passive, after 2005 this became a massive effort to develop relations with the whole continent. However, Turkey's Africa policy is unique in Turkish foreign policy, since for the first time it is driven and complemented by the activities of civil society organisations in and about Africa. Conceptualisation of Africa in Turkish society has changed dramatically in less than a decade, and the recent Turkey–Africa Cooperation Summit should be seen as part of this trend. Turkey's opening to Africa is not a short-term inclination, but is likely to develop and deepen in coming years.

The movement of people from less developed regions of the world to the more advanced countries has been widely studied with regard to its implications for economic growth, international security and socio-political consequences in receiving countries. Turkey, critically placed in one of the most volatile regions of the world, has a very diverse and dangerous neighborhood. Thus, the country plays an important role in the migration of people from neighboring countries to Western Europe as a buffer state. Although Turkey's role as a transit country has been well documented in the literature, what is less known is that the country also receives increasing number of immigrants, both from Middle East but also more recently from Western Europe. This study is an attempt to uncover new aspects of migration concerning Turkey. First it finds that, Turkey is gradually becoming one of the new destinations of migration, as the official statistics clearly demonstrate. Secondly, the study also analyzes a survey data conducted by the authors regarding demographic characteristics, socio-cultural orientations and integration process of the foreign residents in Turkey. The results of the survey research indicate that foreigners are not subjected to any serious and widespread discrimination either by the authorities or by the communities in Turkey. Among the participants, 36.9 per cent state that they have sensed no discrimination when applying for a job or at work places. The percentage of those feeling themselves secure in Turkey is 87.7, while those feeling unsafe is only 12.3 per cent. The major difficulties the foreigners confront are unemployment, economical problems and excessive bureaucratic process especially in obtaining a work permit.

This article examines the evolving nature of national identity and its significance to geo-politics and nation-building in post-colonial African states, specifically Cameroon and Senegal. Within the current global context, previous theories and scholars failed to explain how recent changes in national identity inform the choice of geo-politics in post-colonial Cameroon and Senegal. It is against this backdrop that this article examines the extent to which changes in elite and public perception on national identity transcended national borders and spilled over to the geo-political landscape. The paper relied on a mixed-method research design that combines elements of qualitative and quantitative techniques. The mixed-method approach is anchored on comparative case study techniques. The data were largely drawn from both primary and secondary sources; the primary sources included semi-structured interviews, and public statements, while the secondary sources comprised educational curriculums, Afrobarometer, World Bank data and the Swiss Economic Globalization Index. The outcome of the analysis showed that in recent years changes in national identity have transcended national borders and spilled over to the geo-political landscape. Findings revealed the extent to which the underlying features of national identity have been indigenized, Africanized and globalized to symbolize what it means to be a Cameroonian and Senegalese Citizen. Comparatively, it was established that Senegal has assumed a more dynamic image and position in geo-politics than Cameroon. Nonetheless, Cameroon's and Senegal's recent dynamic and versatile image accounts for the new type of national identity theorized in this paper as a form of strategic identity. The paper also highlighted the challenges and significance of strategic identity to issues of growth, nation and peace-building.