Migrants caught between tides and politics in the Mediterranean: an imperative for search and rescue at sea?

Federica Zamatto, Stefano Argenziano, Jovana Arsenijevic, et al.
14 September, 2017

Search and rescue (SAR), Sea travel, Irregular migration

Harrowing Journeys - Children and youth on the move across the Mediterranean Sea, at risk of trafficking and exploitation

12 September, 2017

Young migrants and refugees set out to escape harm or secure better futures – and face staggering risks in the process. For children and youth on the move via the Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe

Irregular migration, Trafficking, Exploitation, Safe migration, Children, Child migration

Fatal Journeys Volume 3 Part 1: Improving Data on Missing Migrants

12 September, 2017

Since 2014, more than 22,500 migrant deaths and disappearances have been recorded by the International Organization for Migration globally.

Migrants death

Irregular Afghan Migration to Europe: At the Margins, Looking In

Angeliki Dimitriadi
12 August, 2017

This book examines the issue of irregular transit Migration to the EU by presenting the case of the Afghans.

Transit, Irregular migration, Migratory journey

The shifting boundaries of (un)documentedness: a Gendered understanding of migrants’ Employmentbased legalization pathways in Italy

Paola Bonizzoni
1 August, 2017

The paper provides a qualitative exploration of the experiences of migrants who have engaged in the last Employment-based amnesties in Italy.

Undocumented, Gender, Women, Migration policy, Irregular migration, Care and domestic work, Work-based legalization

Migration diplomacy in the Global South: cooperation, coercion and issue linkage in Gaddafi’s Libya

Gerasimos Tsourapas
28 July, 2017

Despite a recent resurgence in research on the politics of Migration, foreign Policy analysts have yet to approach cross-border population Mobility as a distinct field of inquiry.

Issue linkage, Migration diplomacy, Leverage, Refugee, Cooperation, Coercion, Transit migration

Human Security and Shared Responsibility to Fight Transnational Crimes: Resolution 2240 (2015) of the United Nations Security Council on Smuggling of Migrants and Human Tracfficking Off the Coast of Libya

Vassilis P. Tzevelekos
7 July, 2017

The paper discusses United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution 2240 (2015).

human Security, shared responsibility, transnational Crime, resolution 2240 (2015), Security council, Smuggling of migrants, Human Tracfficking, Human Rights, state responsibility

Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘Migration Crisis’

Heaven Crawley, Dimitris Skleparis
6 July, 2017

The use of the categories ‘Refugee’ and ‘migrant’ to differentiate between those on the move and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of their claims to international Protection has featured strongly duri

Mixed migration, Migrant flows, Crisis, Categorical fetishism

The Mediterranean and its migrants: porous Policy for a porous border

Claire Spencer
1 July, 2017

The Mediterranean Sea has traditionally been seen as a transit route rather than a border zone, yet the upsurge in Migration from the Mediterranean's southern shores into Europe in recent year

EU Migration Policy

Actual Patterns of Migration flows: The Challenge of Migration and Asylum in Contemporary Europe

Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
1 July, 2017

Catherine Wihtol de Wenden analyses the implications of the Refugee and Migration Crisis for the EU.

Children, Unaccompanied, International Mobility, Restricted rights

White innocence in the Black Mediterranean: hospitality and the erasure of history

Ida Danewid
2 June, 2017

Themes of loss, grief, and vulnerability have come to occupy an increasingly central position in contemporary poststructuralist and feminist theory.

Migrant deaths, Ethics, mourning, Colonial amnesia, Race, Judith Butler

A Free Ride on the Wave of Terror? The Securitisation of Migration in the EU and its Discursive Consequences

Emilía Anna Ward (Supervisor: Silja Bara Ómarsdóttir)
1 June, 2017

This essay analyses the concept of the securitisation of migration in the EU in light of the ongoing European migrant crisis and recent wave of terrorist attacks across Europe.

terrorism, Securitization, Politics, Public attitudes, Security, Schengen Agreement and Convention

Migrexit and its Consequences for the European Union

Nikolaos Zahariadis
25 May, 2017

Does the influx of hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants in recent years spell trouble for the European Union (EU) as we know it?

Irregular migration, Trouble, Consequences

Deaths at the borders database: evidence of deceased migrants’ bodies found along the southern external borders of the European Union

Tamara Last, Giorgia Mirto, Orçun Ulusoy, Ignacio Urquijo, Joke Harteb, Authors, Nefeli Bamia, Marta Pérez Péreza, Flor Macias Delgado, Amélie Tapella, Alexandra Michalaki, Eirini Michalitsia, Efi Latsoudi, Naya Tselepi, Marios Chatziprokopiou and Thomas Spijkerboer
22 May, 2017

Irregular migrants and asylum seekers have died and continue to die attempting to cross the external borders of the EU without authorisation, seeking to enter the territories of its Member States.

Irregular migration, Borders, Migrants death, Registration, Gibraltar

Skilful Survivals: Irregular Migration to the Gulf

Philippe Fargues, Nasra M. Shah
13 May, 2017

The overall objective of this volume is to advance existing knowledge about irregular migration to the Gulf, a subject about which huge research gaps remain.

Irregular migration, Labour migration

Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys and Experiences

Vicki Squire, Angeliki Dimitriadi, Nina Perkowski, Maria Pisani, Dallal Stevens, Nick Vaughan-Williams
4 May, 2017

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of EU policies in addressing the so-called European migration or refugee ‘crisis’ in 2015 and 2016.

Irregular migration, Cross-Mediterranean flow, Migrant deaths, EU Migration Policy

Is Europe really the dream? Contingent paths among sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco

Dorte Thorsen
1 May, 2017

This article explores migrant existences in the border zones around Europe.

Migrant's pathways, Irregular migration, Migration routes

The Legal Grounds of Irregular Migration: A Global Game Approach

Claire Naiditch, Radu Vranceanu
1 May, 2017

This paper analyses the relationship between regular and irregular Migration taking into account the Migration network effect and the network creation mechanism.

Global games, Irregular migration, Migration policy, Networks

What Does It Mean to Disrupt the Business Models of People Smugglers?

Luigi Achilli, Gabriella Sanchez
1 April, 2017

Despite the scaling-up of EU surveillance, enforcement measures and patrolling operations aimed at border security, the flow of irregular migrants towards Europe shows little sign of abating.

Irregular migration, Human Smuggling, EU Migration Policy

Struggles over Human Rights in local government – the case of access to education for undocumented youth in Malmö, Sweden

Anna Lundberga, Michael Strangea
1 April, 2017

The present article elaborates on struggles over the inclusion and exclusion of undocumented Children and young people in the Swedish school system.

Children, Human Rights, Local government, Urban, Malmö, Hannah Arendt, Education, Undocumented, Youth, Irregular migration, Undocumented children