Migrants, Irregular Migrants, or (Irregular) Migrants?
Response to the ATR Debate Proposition: ‘It is important and necessary to make clear distinctions between (irregular) migrants, refugees and trafficked persons.’ Upon first reading this issue’s debate proposition, I was struck by its structure rather than its content. Its content is subject to li...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Anti-Trafficking Review |
| Online Access: | https://antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/354 |
| Summary: | Response to the ATR Debate Proposition: ‘It is important and necessary to make clear distinctions between (irregular) migrants, refugees and trafficked persons.’
Upon first reading this issue’s debate proposition, I was struck by its structure rather than its content. Its content is subject to lively discussions among scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers, as attested to by other contributions in this issue of the journal. Its curious structure, though, raises issues that merit articulation. In what follows, I briefly problematise the bracketing of the word ‘irregular’ in the debate proposition. What the brackets do is prompt an additional question: migrants, irregular migrants, or (irregular) migrants? |
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| ISSN: | 2286-7511 2287-0113 |