The effects of migrants on international trade: an empiricial analysis of tur- kish migrants in mena countries

There are different kinds of views about international migration movements on countries’ economics. Some of views supported that migrant, affected on emigrant countries’ economies negatively, other views supported that migrant affected on emigrant countries’ economies positively. However; accepted opinion is that the migrants, who have advantages of the knowledge of both homeland and where they live, affect the movements of international trade between the country they emigrated and the country where they live. Thus, there are studies in support of this situation in national and international literatures. However, this studies intended to regions and countries which occur mobilities of foreign trade intensely. In in this study differently from other studies tried to investigate situation of potential markets by selecting MENA regions which involve to as some of Middle East and North Africa countries in the some of books and in addition to some Central Asia countries. In this study, according to Labour of Social and Security Ministry of data in 2014 twenty countries are determined that are situated the highest Turkish immigrants and whether immigrants affect foreign trade between, if ıt effects, in related to a direction effect a study had been n gotten. In this study, extended gravity model which based on panel data set in the period of 2004 – 2013 has been used. And also, the effect of the number of immigrants has been studied by modeling foreign trade in general and its components separately. According to the results of the study, It has been found that the migration to these countries from turkey have a positive effect on Turkey imports