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In the last 15 years a remarkable number of people working in the cultural field moved from Turkey to Berlin. Their motivations are various, but what can be analyzed is how those cul-tural agents arrive in Berlin. Visual artists are put in the focus of this research. It is their pre-carious situation that exposes struggles of identity and connected to this institutional failure. Considering political tensions, how can migration theories detangle the variables that make a living together possible? Based on empirical material that was collected in conversations with Turkish cultural agents in Germany and German cultural agents who live in Turkey the attempt was made to identify the power relations between the artist from another country and cultural institutions in Berlin.
The deal concluded in March 2016 between Turkey and the European Union to manage the refugee movements from Turkey to the Greek islands attracted cri-ticism from various quarters. This thesis examines the legal and political back-grounds of the agreement and advances understanding of why it was so urgent-ly needed.
Based on related legal texts, press reports and interviews conducted with EU officials, I evaluated the agreement itself as well as its implementation until Sep-tember 2016. The findings from the research show that legal and ethical reser-vations are indeed justified. I concluded that the agreement may alleviate symp-toms of the current refugee crisis, yet a real European migration policy was mo-re needed than ever.