How can migration studies respond to the decolonial challenge? International and interdisciplinary, this timely book directly confronts issues of ongoing colonialism and a re-evaluation of migration studies epistemic, institutional and intellectual foundations. The book proposes postcolonial frameworks for conceptualising and researching migration while considering the scope and potential for decolonisation of the field.
Contributors highlight the deep and enduring links between migration studies and colonialism, confronting the spectres of enslavement, Indigenous dispossession and worldwide indenture. They address the fields relationship with borders and governance, outlining critical issues such as power dynamics, the concept of othering and territoriality, alongside a nuanced examination of the notions of the migrant and the refugee. The book ultimately emphasises the transformative influence of emerging critical and radical traditions within contemporary migration studies.
This is a valuable resource for scholars and students of migration studies across the social sciences and addresses the state of the field in a time of intellectual decolonisation.
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A highly valuable collection. It makes the case that decolonializing migration studies entails not only retheorization but more importantly changes in research practice. In addition to exploring how migration studies can be decolonialized in specific ways, the chapters also show that migration studies in turn constitutes a strategic field where a range of existing fundamental categories can be rethought and reshaped. -- Xiang Biao, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany Migration Studies and the Decolonial Challenge deftly brings together perspectives on decolonisation from multiple countries, weaving together arguments about how colonisation and coloniality persists but is also resisted. The chapters offer an invaluable contribution to migration research. -- Parvati Raghuram, The Open University, UK Recognizing that efforts to decolonize scholarship vary considerably across historical and political contexts, the contributors to this volume offer an inter-disciplinary, diverse, and powerful set of tools, grounded in local experiences, to move the decolonial project forward. Their approach serves not only as a model for future migration scholarship but for other social science disciplines. -- Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College and the Global (De)Centre, USA
Contents
1 Introduction to Migration Studies and the Decolonial
Challenge 1
Sin Yee Koh, Francis L. Collins and Brenda S. A. Yeoh
PART I Epistemological Challenges
2 Producing borders: migration control and the colonial present 21
Radhika Mongia
3 Enduring and emergent challenges to post/decolonising
migration studies 38
Sin Yee Koh
4 Onto-epistemic resistance: on the materiality of decolonizing
migration studies 56
Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
5 Are we not also scholars! An African perspective on
decolonial migration studies 74
Kudakwashe Vanyoro
6 Decolonizing migration studies = abolishing nation-states and
their borders 90
Nandita Sharma
7 A Mori migration studies must come from below! 113
Simon Barber (Ki Tahu) and Gabriella Brayne (Ngti
Maniapoto Smoa
8 Dont want to be called a climate refugee: Indigenising
climate mobilities 133
Carol Farbotko and Taukiei Kitara
9 Decolonizing refugee discourses: freedom to escape and
freedom to remain 151
Sedef Arat-Koç
PART II Political and Methodological Challenges
10 Whiteness in migration and its study 169
Sarah Kunz
11 Intellectual versus institutional decolonisation in the study of
gender in Asian womens migrations 186
Anju Mary Paul
12 Integration and migration: Singapore as a de-colonizing lens 201
Junjia Ye
13 De-centring epistemic coloniality at the research-policy
interface: migration studies and the migration state 216
Francis L. Collins
14 Making sense of colonial legacies: methods for linking past
and present in migration studies 235
Lucy Mayblinand Joe Turner
15 Post-socialist coloniality? How to address the decolonial
challenge in migration studies under the post-socialist
condition 252
Anna Amelinaand Friz M. Trzeciak
16 Beyond the victim gaze: reflections on methodological
challenges in researching un/freedom and labour migration 271
Sallie Yea
17 Decolonizing the figure of the migrant: non-binary
categorizations and intra-Asian mobilities 286
Laavanya Kathiravelu
18 Decentring migration scholars, centring paradoxes:
autoethnography as resistance 305
Sylvia Ang
Edited by Francis L. Collins, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, Sin Yee Koh, Senior Assistant Professor of Asian Migration, Mobility and Diaspora, Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam and Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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