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From Objects to Subjects: Expanding Reflexivity in Migration Studies

Christine Lang — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:49:16 +0000

Reflexive approaches in migration studies have revealed the problems of traditional constructions of the objects of migration research. Much less attention has been paid to the subjects doing the research and the mechanisms that prevent the perspectives of scholars with their own ‘migranticization’ experiences to be adequately represented in knowledge

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What’s Sex Got to Do With It? Migration Studies Meets Sexualities

Calogero Giametta — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:30:36 +0000

Migration research has historically conceived migrants as heterosexual, and rendered gender and sexual identity invisible. It is only recently that the intersection of queer and migration studies has produced critical knowledge about the heteronormative structures that govern immigration institutions. Queer migration studies emphasize the theorization of queer migration histories and

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The Complicity of Culturalist Knowledge Production

Stefan Manser-Egli — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:30:57 +0000

‘Respecting the values of the constitution’ is one of the most recent requirements in Swiss integration law. In the last decades, academic voices reproducing narratives of ‘cultural distance’ have contributed to the emergence of the requirement and the conception of integration more broadly. Culturalist integration imaginaries have shaped and continue

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Immigrant Researching versus Immigration Research

Rama Srinivasan — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:30:14 +0000

Integration policies are often perceived in academic works as gatekeeping instruments but, while they can certainly be deployed as such, this framing does not fully represent the variety of immigrant perspectives in my study. My own positionality as an immigrant, applicant for a spousal visa, and a researcher prompted lines

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A Reflexive Perspective on Privileged Migration Studies. What’s the Point?

Sophie Cranston — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:30:16 +0000

In political and popular discourse, migration is alternately portrayed as a problem to be managed or a danger to be fought. Consequently, the term appears to carry with it a set of social and political issues. Drawing on reflexive migration studies, it seems therefore appropriate to question how some mobile

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Academic Engagement for Refugees’ Inclusion Beyond Good Intentions

Halleh Ghorashi — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 08:12:40 +0000

Since 2015, the study of refugee inclusion has become a booming business. However, research and policies are still quite disconnected from refugees’ lives. Reflective infrastructures can help refugees, other societal actors, and researchers collaborate on knowledge co-creation projects that address refugees’ and migrants’ real-life challenges and question taken-for-granted assumptions. Spaces

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Why Mobility Matters to Social Policy

Cecilia Bruzelius — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:30:42 +0000

Over the recent years, there has been growing attention to cross-national migration in social policy research. Yet migration is often seen as external to the development of welfare systems. Moreover, the relationship between mobility and social policy at different scales has been largely overlooked, despite the salience of mobility and

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Migration and Methodological Amnesia

Ipek Demir — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 09:37:50 +0000

The seminal article by Wimmer and Glick Schiller laid the foundations of what came to be known as critical and reflexive migration studies scholarship. The article rightfully challenged methodological nationalism. I argue, however, that without overcoming what I call ‘methodological amnesia,’ migration studies will not be able to challenge methodological

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Twenty Years of ‘Reflexive’ Migration Studies: Introduction to the Blog Series

Janine Dahinden — Tue, 31 May 2022 08:32:34 +0000

Research about migration has arguably been dominated by a western-, and nation-state-centered perspective. In response, reflexive debates on knowledge production have addressed methodological nationalism and colonial legacies, but also androcentrism, heteronormativity and other problematic features in scientific approaches to human mobility. This blog series aims to take stock of the

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