Introduction: Migration Discourses in Times of Crisis

As a wide-reaching and shared experience, a crisis may have different shapes and affect different aspects and members of society. During a crisis, norms are suspended, and the current system of rules is modified such in a way that normality is not anymore normal: everything is open to reconsideration under a new, different light. However, what constitutes a crisis, what is addressed as a crisis, is not an ideologically neutral question. Crises are both directly experienced and discursively constructed phenomena.