In the editorial, “A Crisis of Humanitarianism: Refugees at the Gates of Europe,” Marianna Fotaki elegantly highlights the changing dynamics of governmental policy toward refugees, forced migrants into Europe and the move away from the principles of humanitarianism.1 The perceived threats to economy, securi...

The article examines the politicisation of immigration in Europe during so-called migration crisis. Based on original media data, it traces national election campaigns ...

Recourse to a purported ideal of societal homogeneity has become common in the context of the refugee reception crisis – not only in Japan, as Leppold et al report, but also throughout Europe. Calls for societal homogeneity in Europe originate from populist movements as well as from some governments. Often, they go along with reduced social support for refugees and asylum seekers, for example i...

Security and mobility have become a seemingly inseparable concept in the recent European geopolitical landscape. While historically deeply rooted social, economic legal aspects of migration been extensively studied, current emphasis on emergency management, which has radically shaping law-making law-enforcement dynamics, rather underexplored. Taking stock challenges emerging view adjusting enfo...

6.3 The need for a paradigm shift in research and analysis of the medical brain drain 36 6.4 Migrants' remittances and health outcomes in remittance-receiving households 37 6. The view put forward by a number of influential sources is that sub-Sahara Africa is experiencing a health crisis in human resources and that this crisis is defeating efforts at international, regional and country levels ...

Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. Such movement of population in the Indo-Bangladesh context is generating a range of destabilising socio-political, economic, ethnic and communal tensions in India. It has embittered Indo-Bangladesh ...

Migration emerged as a security issue in a context marked both by the geopolitical dislocation associated with the end of the Cold War and also by wider social and political shifts associated with ‘globalization’. As such, current debates surrounding migration and security reflect changes both in the nature of migration, as well as in the nature of thinking about migration. While it was previou...