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Documentaries for Empowerment and Knowledge Transfer

Yvonne Riaño — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:30:33 +0000

Are we as researchers doing enough to engage with the public and address issues of social justice? Only extracting knowledge from our research subjects and publishing it in high-impact academic journals does not seem to suffice. The impact of our work could increase by collaborating with the communities and producing

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Forum Theater as a Site for Qualitative Research

Doris Niragire Nirere — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 07:30:31 +0000

Theater of the Oppressed (TO) was developed in the 1960s by Brazilian director, activist, and later politician, Augusto Boal as a participative platform, stemming from a long tradition making theatre a part of the democratic exercise of social and political commentary and engagement. Often used in social work, it is

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Knowledge Transfer: Between Impact, Necessity, and Creativity

Nora Bardelli — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:00:19 +0000

Migration and mobility research is often undertaken with the goal of either producing evidence-based policy-making, providing a more in-depth understanding of migration and mobility to the general wider public, or creating change and having an impact on situations deemed unjust. Yet, how can scientific knowledge be transferred in meaningful ways

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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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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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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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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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