Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Human Mobility in Times of Crisis

This special issue looks at the ruptures, oppositions and insecurities in Western/Northern perspectives on human mobility with the overall goal to explain how the West's claim to be a norm entrepreneur for rule of law, freedom and prosperity relates to a growing rejection of an ‘other’ who is asking for refuge in this protected space in accordance with the latter's self-proclaimed rules.

Introduction

Christiane Fröhlich - A Critical View on Human Mobility in Times of Crisis

Special Issue Articles

André Bank, Christiane Fröhlich and Andrea Schneiker - The Political Dynamics of Human Mobility: Migration out of, as and into Violence

Polly Pallister-Wilkins - Humanitarian Rescue/Sovereign Capture and the Policing of Possible Responses to Violent Borders

Dawn Chatty - The Syrian Humanitarian Disaster: Understanding Perceptions and Aspirations in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey

Giovanni Bettini - Where Next? Climate Change, Migration, and the (Bio)politics of Adaptation

Delf Rothe - Gendering Resilience: Myths and Stereotypes in the Discourse on Climate-induced Migration

Henri Myrttinen - The Complex Ties that Bind: Gendered Agency and Expectations in Conflict and Climate Change-related Migration

Pinar Bilgin - Resisting Post-truth Politics, a Primer: Or, How Not to Think about Human Mobility and the Global Environment