While Cabot and Genova (2002) emphasize different aspects of the focus on migrant issues, they both highlight the issue of time. Currently, the European “refugee crisis” is a hot topic in the public eye and among scholars; however, the issue of legality and migration will not disappear once attention has dissolved. The dynamic system of people and legal processes will still remain. It is in time constraints that migrants themselves feel limited and ephemeral because of the deportability. On top of the multidimensional complex that is migration and legal studies, time is important as a context or else it erases the reasons for migrants (as seen in timing patterns), legislative processes, and fear of deportation. Moreover, the process of “illegalization” is essential to understanding migration issues rather than through objectification of people.

Cabot also illustrates how academics and NGO workers have the responsibilities of documenting phenomena, suggesting solutions to humanitarian crises, and ringing the warning call with migrants. The public focus on issues of philanthropy for health often is based on sensationalism, as seen through the Ebola crisis and ALS challenge. But no matter how much people decide to ignore migration and relevant issues, the general population will have to continue living besides people made invisible by laws yet made social by human need. Despite the incoherence of law, economy, and other systems humans have made, it remains imperative that we mold them better to our human qualities rather than adapting to them. Our social networks define us, and so will such people-defined phenomena and their consequences.