Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality. This book
examines these processes and outlines how the figure of the" crimmigrant other" has …

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 paper introduces a collection of articles that share ethnographic perspectives on the
intersections between deportation, anxiety and justice. As a form of expulsion regulating …

This article proposes the term Departheid to capture the systemic oppression and spatial
management of illegalized migrants in Western liberal states. As a concept, Departheid aims …

The practices and mechanisms states use to forcibly move deportees across borders and
sometimes vast distances have been curiously neglected by scholars. To remedy this …

As the world rapidly becomes a different place for migrants and non-migrants alike, this
article asks whether transnational migration scholars have an adequate conceptual toolkit to …

This paper analyses migrant disappearances in connection to EU bordering practices and
techniques. Drawing on fieldwork in various localities at Greek borderlands, I argue that …

Since 2005 around 60,000 asylum seekers, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, have entered
Israel by crossing the border from Egypt. Notwithstanding the Jewish history of persecution …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among 'undocumented'Zimbabwean migrants in
Botswana, this paper examines the complex strategies 'undocumented'migrants employ to …