Migration, Vulnerability, and Experiences of Insecurity: Conceptualising Insecure Migration Status

This research examines the insecurities that are embedded within immigration status or lack thereof. I argue that, to improve our understanding of relationship between immigration-related insecurity and violence, we need reconceptualise how think about, measure, analyse immigration-based characteristics. proposes building an analytical category can conceptualise insecure migration include forms internalise in addition being without status, with irregular status. These often incorporate gendered dynamics. Grouping these different categories around a commonly shared experience allows us prioritise experiences persistent even as people move, cross borders, change propose this will permit more comprehensive picture migration-related harms exist across states, types, borders while allowing researchers data gatherers be attentive intersectional vulnerabilities enhance for particular categories, subgroups, populations.