The aim of the article was to analyse the changing motives for migration of selected collocutors throughout their life-courses. Regarding family migration it was found, for example, that statistical models of migration fail to take into account the diversification of contemporary family life and problematically link the rights of a migrant spouse to his/her partner. Furthermore, so-called 'economic migrants' were found to have various motives for migration that were often not framed in economic terms. It could be that such migration is a response to increasing restrictiveness of contemporary migration policies contributing to increasing insecurity and vulnerability of third-country nationals in the EU. It was argued that official statistical categorisations of migration render invisible migrants' actual lived experience.
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