In the years following the 2008 financial crisis, on-demand delivery platforms have become an increasingly common feature of urban economies across the globe. Noted for their use of hyper-outsourced, “lean” business models ...

Nowadays, the debate in the EU evolves about whether to let migrants enter at all or not and about how these migrants should be divided across EU member states. Seemingly, the migrant is thrown back and forth, whereby the ...

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, ...

In our globalizing world images of cross-border relationships are getting more and more common and important. Transnational spaces are being shaped and they in turn can create contrasting attitudes towards migration. Getting ...

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 ...

Building on the mobility turn in social science, which emphasised the study of the movements of people, objects and ideas, this study aims to explore the journeys of West African migrants en route towards and within the ...

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 ...

This Master Thesis is about how informality and cosmopolitanism are entangled in the everyday life of people who share a specific place, in this case, an African restaurant in The Netherlands. The mainstream definition of ...

In these globalizing times of the 21st century, we can speak of a refugee crisis of historic proportions. An increasing number of migrants is coming from West-Africa to Europe searching for a better or safer life. European ...