The use of the categories 'refugee'and 'migrant'to differentiate between those on the move
and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of their claims to international protection has featured …

Through a critical examination of European immigration policy and using the case of Afghan
asylum seekers in the European continent, this article argues that the politics of labelling …

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 …

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 …

What processes transform (im) mobile individuals into 'migrants' and geographic movements
across political‐territorial borders into 'migration'? Addressing this question, the article …

It has often been noted that a weakness of migration studies is the tendency to take policy
categories as a starting point for research (Lindley 2014, 8). This weakness is even more …

Migration has become a highly divisive, polarizing issue. This article contributes to the
understanding of this polarization by looking at interpretations of migration during critical …

Reclaiming migration critically assesses the EU's migration policy by presenting the unheard
voices of the so-called migrant crisis. It undertakes an extensive analysis of a counter …

How we label, categorize and, in turn, differentiate between those on the move, for example
those who cross the Mediterranean on unseaworthy boats, has enormous implications on …

Conventional approaches to questions of unauthorized or unwanted migration often treat
policy as a self-evident response to a prior social and economic problem (Schloenhardt …