In this video we discuss the distinction between forced and voluntary migration. While these terms are often used as dichotomies, in reality we see migration as a continuum of reasons to migrate between purely forced and purely voluntary.

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0:00 Intro
0:35 Defining "migrant"
1:02 What is Voluntary, what is involuntary migration?
1:52 Types of voluntary migration
2:09 Types of involuntary migration
2:19 It's not a dichotomy, it's a continuum
4:09 Are there reasonable alternatives to migration?
5:53 Conclusion

This video was produced as part of the Intercultural Learning Online Project, funded by the European Union and ILO.

Additional resources:
Heaven Crawley & Dimitris Skleparis (2018) Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44:1, 48 64, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1348224
Marta Bivand Erdal & Ceri Oeppen (2018) Forced to leave? The discursive and analytical significance of describing migration as forced and voluntary, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44:6, 981998, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1384149