In this work, I analyze the im/mobility of West African migrants in and towards the European Union and try to illustrate irregular migrant’s reality in a nuanced and differentiated way. Current discussions on quota and ...

Eind 2010 ontstaan er in de Arabische wereld protesten tegen de regimes in verschillende landen. Dit is het begin van de Arabische Lente. In 2011 breiden de protesten zich uit en in sommige landen leidt dit zelfs tot een ...

This master’s thesis seeks to understand the parallels between migration industry literature regarding migration brokers and its relevance within international football. With the internationalization of many sports industries, ...

Many news reports and statistics on mobile phone ownership in Africa show us that there is a rapidly growing number of people that have a mobile phone in mainly urban, but also rural areas. Many research has already been ...

In the context of the European Union’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, this thesis gains insights into the emergence and development of non-European, ‘unwanted’ migrants’ imaginaries of freedom, security and justice ...

In 2014 an inhabitant of the island Kiribati asked for asylum in New Zealand because of the rising sea level. His request was refused, but the request made him the first ‘official’ climate refugee (NOS, 2017). The concept ...

In contemporary global value chains, flows of mobilities of people and products continuously criss-cross one other. Engaging with the ‘mobilities turn’ and networked conceptualisations of value chains, this research empirically ...

This thesis further develops Berry’s conceptual acculturation model (2001) by examining which factors affect the identification process of Syrian refugees with the Dutch society. On the basis of a qualitative interpretive ...

This bachelor thesis is focused on the migration trajectories of academic migrants and refugees into the European Union. The European border regime makes a distinction between different migrants based on their specific set ...