migration

Debates

The French Exception on the European Migration Scene

Speranta Dumitru & Ettore Recchi - 4 June 2024

The notion of mass migration to France is regularly mobilized in the country’s European election campaigns. Using...

From the Field

Securing Shelter While Facing Eviction: The Case of Syrian Migrants in Lebanon

Dima El Khouri - 16 December 2022

Dima El Khouri documents the politics of securing housing for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. She shows the complex web...

From the Field

Arrests of People Smugglers in Niger: A Criminalization of Mutual-Aid Practices in Migration Situations

Alizée Dauchy & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 July 2022

From the point of view of the Northern states, international migration from the South now has its designated...

Reviews

At the Borders of Europe

Elsa Tyszler & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 May 2022

Against the backdrop of the deaths of 27 exiled people, who drowned in the English Channel while trying to reach...

From the Field

Lawyers and Borders: Using Legal Recourse to Oppose State Discretion?

Annalisa Lendaro & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 May 2022

In the autumn of 2020, the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France, prohibited associations...

From the Field

The Professionalization of Migrant Assistance in Tunisia

Camille Cassarini & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 April 2022

In Tunisia, the management of sub-Saharan migration has in recent years become a new sector of employment. Camille...

From the Field

The Everyday Realities of Marriage Migration

Laura Odasso & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 March 2022

If unions between nationals from Global North countries and foreigners are frequent, their marriages are often met...

From the Field

A “Migration Crisis”? The Myths and Realities of France’s Immigration Figures

Camille Gourdeau & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 March 2022

Is France experiencing a “migration crisis”? Based on a statistical analysis of immigration figures, Camille Gourdeau...

From the Field

Refugee Encampment on Europe’s Borders

Marie Bassi & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 February 2022

Much media attention on the issue of migration is focused on attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea and the often...

Interviews

Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class

Garance Clément & Claire Gellereau & Hélène Steinmetz & Anne-Catherine Wagner & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 November 2021

Since the 1990s, Anne-Catherine Wagner’s research has focused on migrants from the most affluent classes in society....

Reviews

Queens, New York: A Global Microcosm

Susie J. Tanenbaum - 4 May 2021

Susie J. Tanenbaum reviews Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York,...

From the Field

The Asylum Story: Narrative Capital and International Protection

Emily Reid - 2 February 2021

Obtaining international protection relies upon an ability to successfully navigate the host country’s asylum regime....

From the Field

From Transit to Settlement. A Mexican Border Town’s Transition from a Transit Space to a Waiting Territory

Isabel Gil-Everaert - 3 March 2020

Tanapan, a border town in southern Mexico has long been a point of passage for Central American migrants bound for...

Essays

Migrants’ Occupation of Lycée Jean Quarré: The Refugee Cause and the Cause of a Neighborhood

Isabelle Coutant & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 November 2018

The flows of migrants seeking refuge in Europe since the summer of 2015 have led to temporary settlements—legal or...

From the Field

Taste of Home: A Sociocultural Exploration of Food Habits and Health Among Bangladeshi Immigrants in New York City

Fatema Kamal - 22 May 2018

Resettlement in an entirely different country may have drastic consequences for an individual’s health. This is...

From the Field

Immigrant Men and Voluntary Work in a Swiss City

Agnès Aubry - 15 May 2018

Across Europe, refugees and immigrants find themselves in uncertain civil and legal territory; precariousness...

From the Field

Dwelling—Living—Waiting: Transformations of a Refugee Reception Camp in Germany

Nina Riewe - 21 November 2017

In wealthy German cities, which have received tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Northern...

From the Field

No Lawful Status: Immigrant Youth in a State of Exclusion

Alexis Silver - 24 October 2017

When the Trump administration rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, nearly 800,000...

From the Field

Shrinking Cities in France: The Cumulative Effects of Decline

Nicolas Cauchi-Duval & Frédérique Cornuau & Mathilde Rudolph & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 October 2017

In France, different shrinking cities have followed different trajectories. They nevertheless all have certain...

From the Field

Citizen Outsider: Racism, Marginalization, and Immigration in France

Jean Beaman - 31 May 2017

As refugee crises have emerged and immigration has increased in many regions of the world, several Western...

Reviews

Trends Global, Impact Local

John Shapiro - 23 May 2017

Global wealth, immigration and capital flow have profoundly influenced local retail districts in world-class...

Reviews

Immigrants and Transnational Citizenship

Fernando Aquino - 14 February 2017

In spite of the loud fear-mongering about immigration and borders in the US and Europe, sociologists have found...

From the Field

Liberty, Community and Religion: A Hispano-Moroccan Family in Andalusia

Alain Cottereau & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 October 2016

In Europe, the relationship that migrants originating from the Arab Muslim world – whether first- or...

From the Field

Looking Inward, Across the Border

Harel Shapira - 19 April 2016

In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...

From the Field

Childhood Spent Waiting at the Gate

Adeline Perrot & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 April 2016

The recent opening of a holding area for “unaccompanied foreign minors” at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport reflects a...

From the Field

Public authorities and Roma populations in Turin

Elisabetta Rosa & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 March 2015

For the last three decades or so, European cities have had to deal with the issue of land occupation by migrant...

From the Field

Mass-Producing the World’s Factory

Stefan Al - 9 February 2015

The economic transformation of China into a global manufacturing mecca has emptied many rural areas, creating tens...

Essays

Migrant Destinies

Sylvaine Bulle & Laetitia Tura & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 January 2014

Although borders are often invisible, they govern people’s right to move freely, as well as clandestine migration...

Reviews

Migration and globalization: a tragic tale

Olivier Thomas & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 October 2013

At a time when flows of capital, goods and information are increasing, more and more material, ideological and...

Essays

Corridors of exile: a worldwide web of camps

Michel Agier & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 25 November 2010

Urban anthropologist Michel Agier describes how Europe controls migrant populations, keeping them “locked out” of...

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