Over the past forty years, countries in the Global North have increasingly restricted their
migration policies to reduce the arrival of migrants. As part of this, development aid has …

This paper examines how young West African migrant men decide to enrol in the IOM's
voluntary return programme in Morocco and make sense of their return while they wait for it …

This essay analyzes how race politics and immigration politics intersect in present-day
Morocco, entangling various actors across multiple scales, from the continental to the …

This special issue argues for a more complex understanding of migration policy 'beyond
Fortress Europe'. It advocates a twofold approach that (1) historicizes the domestic contexts …

This article investigates the social life of excision at the Southern Spanish border. Scholars
have documented how excision expands the border project, and how it uses the law to make …

In Morocco, the implementation of the 'Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration'
programmes (AVRR) run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) counts on the …

ABSTRACT In 2018, the International Organization for Migration stated that 'migration has
nearly become synonymous with urbanization, given the dominance of the city as the …

ABSTRACT In September 2013, King Mohammed VI announced sweeping reforms to
Morocco's migration policy that promised to break with decades of repressive border control …

What role does race play in the construction of illegality in the face of pervasive border
control? Sociologists and anthropologists of migration have apprehended illegality as a …

In its efforts to control the mobility and whereabouts of its refugee populations, Turkey
enforces registration requirements for refugees, tying refugee rights to continuing residency …