The reception of asylum seekers in Italy has become an increasingly contentious issue:
many actors, public and private, are involved at various levels of government, and …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionise the way states and international
organisations seek to manage international migration. AI is gradually going to be used to …

This paper takes stock of the emerging literature on the governance and framing of both
migration and asylum as 'crises'. This study carries forward this line of thinking by showing …

Cities claim an ever-larger role in migration governance, often by means of progressive
policies that “decouple” the local from the national. The literature on this “local turn” has …

ABSTRACT The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) was
adopted in 2018 under the auspices of the United Nations. In a context in which the global …

This paper argues in favour of a radical de-centring of our understanding of international
migration governance that privileges the viewpoints of origin and transit countries, non-state …

External migration has become a site for extensive EU activity, not least in the years
following the start of the migration 'crisis' in 2015–2016. It has also become a testing ground …

Informality has attracted significant attention in migration studies, yet a fresh look is needed
given the succession of world crises over the past 15 years and the increasing use of …

This special issue argues for a more complex understanding of migration policy 'beyond
Fortress Europe'. It advocates a twofold approach that (1) historicizes the domestic contexts …

In this Special issue, we focus on temporary migrants as an important and often overlooked
demographic in urban areas around the world. We demonstrate through empirical evidence …