The tale of ‘good’ migrants and ‘dangerous’ refugees

The "good migrant" reaffirms the self-perpetuated superiority of the Western country where she is living, working, or simply dwelling.

Meanwhile, the “foreigners” trying to cross borders into the “European Fortress” are finding the bar raised.

Because we are racialized as white, people don’t immediately assume we are migrants or refugees.

When we step outside academia, we step back into the structures in which we are considered “other”.

The region is, thus, simultaneously othered and implicated in further othering in migration discourses.