Border policies
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, authorities deployed a myriad of “exceptional” measures that severely impacted the possibilities of human movement. States restricted, controlled and monitored people on the move at various social and spatial scales. The emerging “regime of (im)mobility” turned out to be highly differential and
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During a crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, there seems to be an instinctive turn towards sanctuary and roots. In 2020, repatriation flights and exceptions from travel restrictions allowed particular categories of travelers to return home. But our ideas about sanctuary are also restrictive, implicitly leaning on often racialized assumptions about
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Over 23 migrants or more fleeing war zones in sub-Saharan Africa were crushed to death in the Spanish enclave of Melilla by the security forces, who should have protected them – accusations the Spanish government denies. How are we to interpret the responsibility of Spain, as well as the EU
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The study of racism in international migration has been thus far ignored, as some claim that the letter of the law is now race-neutral, and others that racism should not be looked at because it has no biological foundation. Moreover, one strand of the academic debate has recently argued that
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International student refugees – students from countries outside the EU who were studying in Ukraine at the time when the war broke out, fled the same war as Ukrainian citizens. On arrival in Germany, however, they encountered differential treatment compared to Ukrainian refugees. Indeed, these third-country nationals have not been
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