Futures of Migration

https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/11/visualizing-europes-refugee-crisis/?utm_content=buffer4a610&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

2015 has seen the biggest refugee crisis in Europe. In 2014 the number of people displaced by conflict and persecution increased by 8.3 million, reaching a total of 59.5 million, with 6.47 million internally displaced in Syria and Afghanistan (OCHA 2015). Yet, despite this well known calamity, Europe and the world were unprepared for the refugee crisis in 2015 (Carnegie Europe 2015). How come? What is to come? And how do international migration flows relate to internal migration flows (e.g. in China ((thx David Tyfield!))) What does looking at borders with a mobilities and futures perspective reveal?

Great Blog on

https://mobilitiesresearch.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/the-marketization-of-mobility-some-thoughts-on-value-movement-and-classification/

THE MARKETIZATION OF MOBILITY: SOME THOUGHTS ON VALUE, MOVEMENT AND CLASSIFICATION

February 7, 2016 · by mobilitieslab · in Guest Post. ·

‘We often pull up skulls and bones in our nets.’ (Lampedusa fisherman to BBC reporter, April, 2015)

Imogen Tyler, professor of Sociology at Lancaster, discusses her research on stigma and migration. In the context of the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe, Tyler warns against ‘the intensive proliferation of legal instruments to (re)distribute mobility along market lines’.

Mobility Futures

Imogen Tyler, professor of Sociology at Lancaster, discusses her research on stigma and migration. In the context of the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe, Tyler warns against ‘the intensive proliferation of legal instruments to (re)distribute mobility along market lines’.