ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concept of crisis and the European migration crisis as a case. The concept of crisis is much used in political language, in media stories, and even in everyday conversation/speech. The migration crisis has been, from the outset, clearly an institutional crisis. This is the common understanding of the crisis. The European migration crisis was arguably not an institutional crisis until supranational co-operation floundered, and several Member States staked out their own course of action, which put new and heavier burdens on other Member States. The migration crisis has seen different consequences across the European Union, with the Member States at the external border facing the strongest consequences. The complexity of migration attests to the possibility that several kinds of expertise could be at work in the handling of a migration crisis, be it moral, technical, or problem-solving.
