Florian Trauner holds a Jean Monnet Chair at the Brussels School of Governance of the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He also co-directs the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research …

In an era when people have more information at their fingertips than ever before,“facts”
seem to have lost their gravitas. As easy as it is in the digital age to share and broadcast …

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research &
Innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 101004945. The information in this …

This book engages with politics and political discourse that relate to and qualify immigration
in Europe. It brings together empirical analysis of immigration both topically and …

When people consider whether to move to and live in a different place, they are guided by
evaluations and narratives that inform their decision (Bennour, Manatschal, and Ruedin …

Migration has been one of the pivotal matters of contention at the European level over the
last decade. Interrelated issues like the functioning of the Common European Asylum …

This report examines the way in which narratives on migration circulate in France across
communicative and coordinative spheres (Schmidt 2008). It focuses on three events: the …

In today's public and political discourses, European and other Western destinations are
often described as being 'flooded'and 'invaded'by 'bogus' asylum-seekers and irregular …

Migration is one of today's most visible policy agendas. Across Europe, the combination of
increasingly polarised political environments and 2015's so-called 'refugee crisis' has …

Migration research has evolved rapidly as an interdisciplinary research field over the last
three to four decades. Until the 1980s, studies of migration were relatively scarce and …