This article proposes the methodological framework of visual narrative analysis through the
study of images and narratives. We are interested in the appeal of political storytelling. In …

The material violence of borders and border control has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a
'border spectacle'(De Genova, 2002)–a nodal spectacularized meeting point between the …

This article focuses on ways in which refugee-led community organisations (RCOs) carve
out a space of influence through civic activism in the migration architectures of receiving …

What happens when violence disappears? What is left in the backwash of crisis? Who
attends to the emotional, material and ideational detritus of closing borders? Like many, we …

Critical peace and conflict scholars argue that to understand fully conflict dynamics and
possibilities for peace research should incorporate 'the local'. Yet this important conceptual …

Digital visual technologies have become an important tool of humanitarian governance.
They allow the monitoring of crises from afar, making it possible to detect human rights …

This book explores European student migration from the perspectives of Eastern European
students moving to Western Europe for study. Whilst most research on student migration in …

As early as the 1980s, the narrative has been redefined by sociologists and communication
theorists as a way to constitute social identity; however, to date, it has not been specified …

The end of a long-standing autocratic regime in The Gambia renewed EUrope's geopolitical
interest in the externalisation of (return) migration management to the West African country …

Despite the imperative to pay attention to the words we use as a routine dimension of
research, the methodological and pedagogical tools illustrating how to work on our own use …