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27 Eur. J. on Crim. Pol'y & Rsch. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/eurjcpr27 and id is 1 raw text is: European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research (2021) 27:1-4 https:Ildoi.org/l 0.1007/si 0610-021-09484-5 To Other and Vilify: Manufacturing Migration as Crime Gabriella Sanchez1 Published online: 17 April 2021 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2021 This special issue of the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research brings together empirical analyses into the criminalisation of practices related to migration and its implications on human rights. Drawing from the experiences of male and female migrants, civil society, ordinary citizens, brokers and smuggling facilitators and their encounters with law enforcement, this collection reduces this gap and raises questions concerning the way criminal law and policy around the world shapes migrant people's access to justice. Over the last decade, there has been a proliferation of literature problematising the ways in which migration law and criminal law have increasingly come together. Authors have specifically examined how legislation, policy and decision-making concerning migration enforcement and border controls have progressively designated as criminal those lacking access to legal, safe and orderly migration, and their efforts to reach destinations elsewhere, build their lives, and thrive. This body of work has been pivotal at highlighting the dynamics of migration and the increasing patterns of criminalisation migrants face (Bhatia et al., 2020). In many instances, it has also been an important tool when advocating for the rights and protection of people on the migration pathway and their entanglements with the law by showing how they often face additional burdens that shape the ways in which they are subjected to pro- cesses of differentiation and exclusion (Bosworth, 2019: 81). However, this literature has also had a tendency to emphasise specific notions or percep- tions about migration. It has often left aside a central social process at its core: the con- struction of race and citizenship, a troubling disconnect when considering that those who become the target of enforcement and control are quite often racialised men and women of colour. Workplace raids, midnight searches, city ordinances and changes in social services legislation are only some of the acts that are consistently used against specific, racialised groups to perpetuate their oppression and subordination (Gross-Wyrtzen & Gazzotti, 2020; Sanchez & Romero, 2010; Tyszler, 2020). Tendencies in migration research do not end there: some migrant trajectories or des- tinations are discussed more frequently than others, often reinforcing their construc- tion in mainstream discourse as problematic (e.g., the transits of migrants are depicted as uni-directional, seeking solely to reach destinations in the global north or posing security threats to its stability) (van Houtum & Bueno Lacy, 2020). Literature has also E Gabriella Sanchez gasa@diis.dk Migration and Global Order Unit, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark Springer

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