The logic of migratory crisification: a conceptual proposal for analyzing contemporary discourses and practices

Introduction This article proposes the concept of migratory crisification as an analytical framework to understand how certain dynamics of human mobility are systematically framed as social, political, and media crises. While the notion of a “migration crisis” has become pervasive in public discourse, it is rarely interrogated as a socially constructed category. We argue that crisification operates as a discursive, institutional, and affective process through which migration is transformed into