The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people
have been deported since 1997–twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There …

The expansive understanding of borders and boundaries in recent scholarship has enriched
border studies, but it has also obscured what a border is. This set of interventions is …

This article provides a review of the literature on the International Organization for Migration
(IOM) and serves as an introduction to the JEMS special issue devoted to this organisation …

ABSTRACT Polymorphic borders. Territory, Politics, Governance. Conceptualizing the
respatialization, rescaling and mobilization of border work is a central problem in current …

This article argues that vehicles, roads and routes merit a much more central place in
theorizations of migration politics. This argument is developed in terms of three theses. First …

Deportation, understood as the physical removal of someone against their will from the
territory of one state to that of another, has moved to the forefront of academic and policy …

Objectives This study summarised evidence on the prevalence of interpersonal, community
and state physical violence against people in insecure migration status. Methods We …

Discussions of chaos and crisis feature prominently in contemporary literature on the nation-
state, globalization, security, and neoliberalism. In scholarship, policy, and public discourse …

This paper critically examines the political geography of asylum accommodation in the UK,
arguing that in the regulation of housing and support services we witness the depoliticisation …

This first report on Geographies of Migration primarily centers on refugees. I first summarize
some of the debates about categories scholars use to describe people who move across …