CrisisMigRef – The Database on Crisis and Migration

Academic literature addressing crises related to migration and (im)mobility has flourished in the last years, especially following the so-called 2015 ‘migration crisis’ and the COVID-19 pandemic. As a service to the academic community, the nccr – on the move has created the CrisisMigRef database on the Zotero platform, which is publicly available and constantly updated, that gathers the most relevant crisis references related to migration and (im)mobility published in English.

The database includes theoretical and conceptual literature on crises as well as scholarship focusing on specific crises, such as, but not limited to, the COVID-19 pandemic, events framed as ‘migration crises’, economic crises and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

References are pre-classified according to the approach(es), scale(s), and the type(s) of crisis they examine, as well as their focus of analysis. References can thus be found in more than one category, and are also tagged with more information on the specific crisis they address, their geographical scope, the time period analyzed, and their disciplinary orientation.

As the Climig database run at the University of Neuchâtel already gathers references on migration, the environment and climate change, the number of entries regarding environmental crises in the CrisisMigRef database is limited.

You will find here the CrisisMigRef database.

The database is planned as a collaborative tool, and you have the possibility to suggest references which should be included. Please send relevant references in a Zotero compatible format (e.g. RIS, BibTeX, etc.) to CrisisMigRef

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