Volume 34 (2016), Edition 1

The change in migration and refugee policy which has since 2015 occurred as a reaction to the large influx, oscillates between shielding and opening. This article attempts to provide some common ground on what has become a highly polarized debate by...

This article examines the interlinkages and ambiguities between the power practices of European migration politics, the changing modes of spatial control, and the resulting dynamics of violence (i.e. extra-territorialization, transit zones, and...

Governments often walk a fine line between measures designed to decrease the ‘spontaneous’ influx of asylum seekers and their attempts to avoid credibility losses as human rights advocates. Recent developments in Australia and Canada show that...

The article examines the public discourse in Austria on issues of (potentially) radicalized Muslims in Europe and associated security perceptions. The main question is how recent terrorist attacks in Paris conducted by radical Islamists and the...

Most refugees flee from violent conflict. Upon arriving in other countries, they often remain in limbo for years. In spite of this, the conceptual nexus between violent conflict and forced migration has been widely neglected both in research and...

This article highlights key challenges for displaced populations, starting from a lack of an over-arching expanded definition and research framework to analyse and theoretically address the “mixed migrations” phenomenon from a conflict analysis...

In Oceania, the resettlement of communities due to the effects of climate change is increasingly being considered, although numbers of actual relocations and of affected people are currently still small. Planned relocation is a specific form of...