Abstract The article discusses figurative use of expressions from the domains INVASION and HOUSE in media discourse on European migrant crisis. conceptual metaphors MIGRATION AS AN COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE, which are inextricably related segments real migration, have strong rhetorical power serve as a means promoting antimigrant ideologies. aim this paper is to identify instances deliberate aforem...

The diagnosis of a migration crisis has prompted multiple processes of rebordering in Europe and beyond. These include the build-up of physical barriers like walls and fences, the tightening of asylum regimes, the expansion of biometric databases and the enrolment of authoritarian regimes in controlling Europe’s borders. These developments have prompted a revival of the image of the ‘fortress’ ...

Crisis intervention, as it has evolved over the last five decades, has clearly demonstrated its effectiveness as a tool to reduce human distress. Nevertheless, as with any effort to alter human behavior, there are risks associated with crisis intervention. One such risk is that of premature intervention. Premature intervention may not only waste valuable intervention resources, but may serve to...

This paper discusses the European Commission’s proposal for a New Pact on Migration and Asylum, emphasizes that current gridlock of Union (EU) in field asylum is rooted status quo problem: EU’s approach to characterized by static policy core lack institutional capacity building. problem limits sustainable internal solutions EU its member states shifts weight onto external dimension migration as...