The contested politics of naming in Europe’s “refugee crisis”

How we label, categorize and, in turn, differentiate between those on the move, for example those who cross the Mediterranean on unseaworthy boats, has enormous implications on the kind of legal and moral obligations receiving states and societies feel towards them. This is perhaps even more salient nowadays in the context of the process of reform of the global governance of migration initiated with the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants.