Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung

A few hours after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria on December 8, 2024, a debate dominated in many European countries: Syrians now had no reason or right to stay in the country, should return to rebuild their country and repatriation and...

In the context of an increasingly restrictive migration regime, questions of participation and agency for individuals with precarious legal status have become particularly urgent. This article examines how different actors relationally enable,...

In recent years, the question of the agency of refugees has become a prevalent topic in forced migration research. However, I identify two gaps in theory and empirical research that I aim to address in this article. Firstly, although empirical...

What does it mean – theoretically, methodologically and ethically – to focus on forced migrants’ agency and care? In this paper, we consider these different dimensions of centering the agency and care of forced migrants and of moving beyond...

Refugee camps are regulated, vulnerability-producing spaces shaped by power asymmetries and institutional control. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in German shelters, this article examines how institutional mistrust, structural...

This contribution introduces the concept of un-returnability into migration and refugee studies. Drawing on ethnographic research with long-term tolerated residents (persons who are under temporary suspension of deportation) in Germany, it examines...

This special issue focuses on the relationship between vulnerability and agency in the context of forced migration. In this introduction, we firstly outline the praxeological and application-oriented perspective, and we situate the key terms —...

The mixed-method study InclusiveRE investigates the arrival and inclusion of resettled refugees in Germany. Our theoretical framework refers to inclusion as the structural facilitation of equal participation and critique of intersectional...