Currently, two distinct bodies of scholarship address the increased volume and diversity of
global return migration since the mid-1990s. The economic sociology of return, which …

Focusing on the dynamics of irregular immigration in Southern EU Member States, this book
analyses how the phenomenon is managed at national and local levels in different legal and …

There has been an unrelenting proliferation of official discourses of “crisis” and “emergency”
over the last several years. The historical era for our concerns may be understood to …

This special issue consists of a collection of papers that aims to gain a better understanding
of the experiences, practices and politics of mobility in a geo-political context in which …

Displacement is typically approached in anthropology as an exceptional experience that is
associated with refugees and forced migration. Recent representations of a migration 'crisis' …

En Sudamérica, en el transcurso de las últimas dos décadas, el campo de las llamadas
“políticas migratorias” experimentó importantes transformaciones. El presente artículo …

This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African
migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that …

The new field of deportation studies emerged at the intersection of immigration and security
studies in the early 2000s. Focusing on deportation raises new questions about migration …

The present exercise is a provisional effort to dedicate serious critical reflection to a variety
of keywords operating within contemporary discourses of power and resistance, which …

Detention and deportation have become keystones of immigration and border enforcement
policies around the world. The United States has built a massive immigration enforcement …