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The Refugee Crisis also known as the Migrant Crisis or the Migration Crisis—depending on inadvertent or wilful muddling of these terms—refers to a period of time in 2015 and 2016 when human migration from Asia and Africa towards Europe became a hot topic of discussion. The rise of a controversial discourse began in April 2015 with the tragic sinking of five boats in the Mediterranean Sea carrying nearly 2000 individuals who had hoped to reach Europe. This incident resulted in a sharp rise in attention towards human migration, as well as an international media hype and, ultimately, a mixture of regional and national debates vis-à-vis immigration, identity and security in most of Europe. What made the Refugee and Migrant Crisis (RMC) such a phenomenon was not the sheer numbers of individuals making their way to Europe, nor the seemingly ceaseless casualty reports it generated, but first and foremost the context in which it developed. Already in 2015, sensitivities towards foreigners—especially those of Muslim faith—were heightened in most of Europe. By then, the continent was attending to the complexities of the increasing frequency of Islamist-linked terrorist attacks since 2006, the 2008 financial crisis, the Greek debt crisis of 2010, the Crimea/Ukraine crisis of 2014 and the increasing support for right-wing, nativist political parties agitating European Union politics (European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2018). As Professor Claudia Postelnicescu (2016) stated, Europe, facing the RMC, was “at a crossroad, divided between the need to remain faithful to its core democratic values and freedoms, maintaining an area of freedom and justice and the need to protect its citizens against the new terrorism and the rise of nationalistic leaders and parties that require less Europe and more power back to the nation states” (Postelnicescu 2016). No freedom, however, has since been more challenged by this migration influx than the freedom of movement within Europe’s internal borders as established by the Schengen Agreement. The Label ‘Refugee’ and its Impacts on Border Policies