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During the past year, it has become common to speak of “the migrant crisis,” or “the refugee crisis”. Scholars and intellectuals have critically questioned whether the rhetoric of “crisis” comes from the fact that many feel a “threat” to Europe’s Christian “civilization”, deriving from the fear that a large amount of the people arriving are not “white” but “Muslim”, representing a possible “terrorist” threat. Closely linked is the more general fear of insufficient – also emotional – capacities to absorb these migrants into our societies. In this context, historians can play a fundamental role in analyzing, explaining, and questioning migration as a phenomena and process, for instance, by engaging in a history of knowledge as well as using an intersectional approach. This helps to analyze different actors at the junctures of varieties of categorical differences such as race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, and religion, which allows for an epistemic enlargement of current analyses on inclusion/exclusion and inequalities in European societies.