Domestic Politics in Cyprus: : Grounds for Migrant Voices

In a comparative analysis of the two de facto states of the island—the Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, this paper describes the domestic political life on the island and explores how the issue of migration is treated in its domestic politics. It is argued here that neither side receives very high scores in regards to their policies towards immigrants, i.e., members of one community living in the territory controlled by the other, which has rather discouraging implications for the future in terms of a settlement of the Cyprus problem, a conflict between two communities that have historically perceived the opposing side as the ‘other’.