Autonomy of Asylum? The autonomy of migration undoing the refugee crisis script

In this special issue, we interrogate this proliferation of crises and crisis formations from the specific critical vantage point of the autonomy of migration. As the broad conceptual rubric for a heterogeneous field of critical inquiry and debate, pursued since the late 1990s largely by activist-scholars and scholar-activists primarily (but not exclusively) in the European context and explicitly challenging the overly deterministic rhetorical emphasis on control and exclusion that tended to be recapitulated even by critiques of the dominant discourse of an emergent “Fortress Europe,” the autonomy of migration has supplied a framework for advancing perspectives that foreground the subjectivity of migrant mobilities.