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Taken together these essays reveal both synergies and contradictions between and within immigration and welfare policies. Several common themes emerge. Firstly, while access to the welfare state is an important signifier of membership, in practice claiming certain state benefits is accompanied by suspicion, surveillance and stigma. The good citizen is a worker citizen. Secondly, the importance of the welfare state in putting the nation into the nation-state: the normative national community imagined as the rightful subject of welfare states is racialised and classed. Thirdly, deservingness functions in both welfare states and immigration regimes to prioritise victimhood rather than rights and redistribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current outcomes of immigration enforcement policies and apparatuses call for rethinking the ethics behind our understanding of community belonging, human rights and just society. The ethics at work are often presented as emotions creating particular affective atmosphere that permit the ongoing implementation of enforcing migration. This Special Issue tackles emotions as processes of organizing that are mobilized in support of certain ethics. In the context of immigration enforcement, these emotions are not self-explanatory, but they can justify the potential for violence and even deem it necessary. The emotions or affects of enforcers (as opposed to migrants) have been less addressed, and this Special Issue aims to be a novel collection. The articles pay particular attention to racism and to the understanding of institutional racism within state structures. They reveal the ways in which emotions are instrumental to the operations of state bureaucracy within the repressive migration apparatus and point to the ethics that allows individuals to conform state structures of oppression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the use of metaphors to discuss the refugee crisis in Europe as of 2016. Topics include the significant increase in the number of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa in Europe, Europe's strategies to manage the crisis, the relationship between media coverage, policy, and public opinion, and the factors that contributed to the refugee crisis. These factors include war, poverty, and environmental degradation. Also discussed are immigrants' impact on the European economy, press coverage of the issue in Great Britain, and the comparison of immigrants as outsiders.

This article focuses on the issue of trafficking, as well as public concern over prostitution/sex work, immigration, and the abuse and exploitation it frequently involves. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime in November 2000 which aims to promote interstate cooperation in the combating of transnational organised crime and to eliminate safe havens for its perpetrators. Its three additional protocols include the smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons, and trafficking in firearms. The proliferation of irregular migration and the abuse of migrant workers are attributed by European governments to traffickers. It points out the de-politicisation of anti-trafficking interventions is a form of anti-politics.