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Categorising Migrants: Standards, complexities, and politics Launch of Issue 11 of the Anti-Trafficking Review 'Irregular Migrants, Refugees or Trafficked Persons?' Guest Editors: Claus K. Meyer and Sebastian Boll Editor: Borislav Gerasimov International migration has become a 'mega trend' of our times, with more than 260 million migrants living outside their country of origin in 2017. Some people move in search of better livelihood opportunities, others flee conflict, environmental degradation or natural disasters, and yet others are deceived or coerced into exploitative work. At the same time, the categories developed by the international community for people on the move - such as smuggled migrants, refugees, or trafficked persons - are increasingly inadequate to capture today's complex migration flows. Yet the label that a person is given by authorities can mean the difference between assistance and protection, or arrest and deportation. This special issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review examines migratory categories, their use among authorities and humanitarian actors, and-most importantly - the impact they have on migrants themselves. View the new issue at www.antitraffickingreview.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/discussion/forced-migration-discussion-list-posting-guidelines Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/refugeestudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/refugeestudiescentre ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FORCED-MIGRATION list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=FORCED-MIGRATION&A=1