Different evocations of “crisis” create distinct categories that in turn evoke certain social
reactions. After 2008 Greece became the epicentre of the “financial crisis”; since 2015 with …

“The refugee crisis in Europe is fabricated,” Prem Kumar Rajaram writes in the opening post
of this series. It is certainly true that the framing of current events in terms of crisis and …

Commencing with some recent examples drawn from Anglophone media, this introductory
article reflects on the multiple ways in which crisis and migration have been interconnected …

This is the first article in our series on refugees. Attempts to address the current crisis often
seek to make distinctions between 'refugees' and 'migrants' and between refugees/migrants …

Much has been said in 2015–2016 and beyond about the so-called Refugee Crisis—that is,
yet another pan-European “crisis” caused by the sudden massive asylumseeker flow from …

Since at least the end of the Cold War, there has been a striking return to viewing migration
as a security issue, within both Western policy and our scholarly inquiry. However, it is clear …

Migrant protest has proliferated worldwide in the last two decades, explicitly posing
questions of identity, rights, and equality in a globalized world. Nonetheless, such …

Recent migration 'crises' raise important geopolitical questions. Who is 'the migrant'that
contemporary politics are fixated on? How are answers to 'who counts as a …

Throughout the world, political mobilizations by refugees, irregularized migrants, and
solidarity activists have emerged, demanding and enacting the right to move and to stay …

When talking of migration, we are confronted with limitations of thought on who or what our
proper subject is, how to configure relations and how to engage with conventional …