“…Our contribution distances itself from push-andpull conceptualizations of migration, instead offering a more agential-led perspective. In so doing, the article is embedded within literature from within critical migration research (Hess/ Tsianos, 2010;Tsianos/Karakayali, 2010), the autonomy of migration approach (De Genova, 2017;Scheel, 2015;Binder/Ege/Färber, 2011;Mezzadra 2010;Bojadzijev/ Karakayali, 2007), and border regime approaches (Fradejas-García/Polese/Bhimji, 2021; Rass/Wolff, 2018).…”