Editorial. Migration and migration studies in late neoliberal times

Abstract

We are witnessing an “ostentatiously inhuman” (ostentatamente disumana) (Ferrajoli 2018) politics directed against migrant women and men in every part of the world, particularly in the more affluent countries. These countries were formerly referred to as developed countries, thus using a term that failed to cover over the colonialist rhetoric used against less developed ones. The same rhetoric resurfaces today, as shown by those countries that have recently joined the network of global(ised) development. This politics makes no distinctions based on age, religious orientation, economic, social, and political motivations of migration. We are facing a “war against migrations” (Palidda 2018) in the name of “security”, which gives way to an extremely worrying condition.