International migration challenges the organizational and conceptual boundaries constructed by states. Moreover, this phenomenon challenges popular notions of "us" and "them." In the 2000s, socioeconomic uncertainty has provided a new basis for exclusion and hostility amidst a rising tide of nationalism, racism and xenophobia. In today's Europe, changing boundaries between West and East, rising security concerns, economical problems, ambivalences in cultural and political spheres, all have affected how migrants are perceived by host societies. This work analyzed international migration and...