What is semi-legality, and why does it offer a viable alternative to the legality–illegality binary
divide? Semi-legality, as a heuristic device, is useful to frame the various “in-between” …

The past 10 years have seen an increase in legislation pertaining to marriage migration in
Europe. Such attention betrays various concerns and anxieties that intersect not only with …

Traditionally, family migration was conceptualized as a separate form of migration from
labour migration. Increasingly socio‐economic criteria (labour market participation …

In 2011, al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, was killed in Pakistan and the US president,
Barack Obama, concluded a decade of global 'war against terror'. In light of this, it seems …

Studying the im/mobility trajectories of West Africans in the EU, this book presents a new
approach to West African migrants in Europe. It argues that a migration lens is not …

While research provides numerous insights about the fear and insecurity that Latino
immigrants experience at the hands of the police, much less is known about the experiences …

Applying insights from newer anthropological kinship studies, this article suggests that the
current Danish immigration regime is based on and legitimized by a certain kind of 'kinship …

Since restrictions on commonwealth labour immigration to Britain in the 1960s, marriage has
been the dominant form of migration between Pakistan and the UK. Most transnational …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between January 2012 and June 2013 in eight
civil registry offices in Brussels, this article explores how assumptions about intimacy …

Within and Beyond Citizenship brings together cutting-edge research in sociology and
social anthropology on the relationship between immigration status, rights and belonging in …