Editor's note

As the United Nations takes on the ambitious task of creating a coordinated architecture that protects both refugees and migrants, it must not forget people with overlapping identities, writes Parvati Nair. Because whether driven by hunger or conflict, everyone who flees their country faces great risks in transit.

And Antoine Pecoud and Marta Esperti ask whether NGOs may hold some responsibility for the many migrant deaths in the Mediterranean.

 

Clea Chakraverty

Commissioning Editor

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Refugees or migrants? When it comes to children who cross international borders without papers, there’s no easy answer. Stoyan Nenov/Reuters

Refugee or migrant? Sometimes the line is blurred

Parvati Nair, United Nations University

There are refugees, there are migrants and then there are the millions of people who live in legal limbo because they defy easy categorisation. But everyone is just looking for a place to call home.

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