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Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective (MARS) is a Horizon Europe project funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Staff Exchange (MSCA-SE) programme. The project runs from 1 February 2024 to 30 January 2028 with a total budget of €1,564,000.

The project is coordinated by Lund University (Sweden) and brings together an extensive international consortium consisting of 9 beneficiary institutions and 17 partner organizations from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.

MARS addresses a critical gap in migration studies by shifting the analytical focus from Western liberal democracies to non-Western migration regimes. According to the World Migration Report, in 2020, 12 of the top 20 migrant-receiving countries worldwide were located outside the Western world, yet dominant academic literature continues to conceptualize migration primarily through Western-centric frameworks.

In response to this imbalance, MARS examines the structures, dynamics, and governance practices of non-Western migration regimes through a multilevel and comparative perspective. The project aims to deepen scientific understanding of how migration is governed at global, regional, and national levels and to translate this knowledge into evidence-based policy processes.

Designed as a research and mobility programme, MARS integrates field-based empirical research, academic secondments, and comparative analyses, contributing to a more inclusive and globally grounded reassessment of migration governance.

Marmara University participates in MARS as a Beneficiary Partner and serves as the National Coordinator for Türkiye, with a total project share of €266,800. The university plays an active role in researcher exchanges, field research, national coordination, and dissemination activities. Within the framework of the project: 3 researcher-months are carried out as outgoing secondments from Marmara University. 8 researcher-months are hosted at Marmara University as incoming secondments.