Although more than 800,000 displaced people arrived in Greece by sea in 2015, fewer than
5 percent applied for asylum in this first country of arrival. Instead, they either traveled …

More children than ever are crossing international borders alone to seek asylum worldwide.
In the past decade, over a half million children have fled from Central America to the United …

A growing body of literature has argued that the distinction between forced and voluntary
migration can be, in practice, unclear. This literature points out that each individual migrant …

Forced migration refers to the forcibly induced movement of people, for example, when
migrants are forced to flee to escape conflict or persecution or become trafficked. The …

This article explores why certain spaces of refuge continue to be excised from global maps
of forced migration. It first reviews why this exclusion happens, before synthesising work on …

This article details the perspectives of individuals within Eritrea towards migrants who have
left the country. In part, it corroborates the work of other authors on the topic of migration in …

This article explores the ways in which migrant workers establish particular relations to the
state in shifting environments of criminalization and stigmatization that change the …

This article contributes to the anthropological discussion on precariousness and labor
precarity, with regard to temporality, potentiality, and subjectivity, by examining how asylum …

Media reports and social science literature on Senegalese migrants in Brazil have focused
on market experiences of the camelôs (street vendors) and the economic function of the …

What are the costs of attempting to migrate internationally for work but being deterred by
unexpected changes in states' policies? Building on recent insights into involuntary …