Plastic hospitality: The empty signifier at the EU’s Mediterranean border

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Italy
  • Malta