This article investigates refugee categorisations in humanitarian admission programmes. Official selection categories and the way they are enacted at the frontline have significant implications for refugees’ unequal (im)mobility and (in)security as they determine who can safely and legally travel to Europe. Based on original ethnographic data, the analysis examines how different political actors mobilise humanitarian and security ‘orders of worth’ to justify how selection categories prioritise some refugees’ security and mobility over others’ in times of perceived crisis. Contrasting Germany’s admission programmes from Lebanon (2013–2015) to those from Turkey (2016–) demonstrates a shift from an overall humanitarian, to a combination of humanitarian and state security orders of worth. The focus on categorisation and justification practices advances a grounded understanding of how inequalities in refugees’ (in)security and (im)mobility emerge and shift in the course of changing crisis definitions.

本文调查了人道主义接纳计划中的难民分类。官方选择类别及其在前线制定的方式对难民的不平等（不）流动性和（不）安全性具有重大影响，因为它们决定了谁可以安全合法地前往欧洲。基于原始人种学数据，该分析检验了不同的政治行为者如何动员人道主义和安全“价值秩序”，以证明在感知到的危机时期，选择类别如何将某些难民的安全和流动性优先于其他人的安全和流动性。对比德国从黎巴嫩（2013-2015）到土耳其（2016-）的录取计划，表明了从整体人道主义到人道主义和国家安全价值组合的转变。