Can Migration Studies Be Decolonized?

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4236-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Decolonization and Social Worlds

What does it really mean to ‘decolonize’ migration studies? Often the term is used as a slogan, without asking whether it genuinely changes research or simply replaces one dominant framework with another.

This book explores when decolonial approaches create new openings and when they risk shutting down debate. Drawing on vivid case studies from partnerships between North and South, to fieldwork, reciprocity, and participatory methods, the book offers fresh insights into how ideas of decolonization play out in practice.

This is essential reading for anyone rethinking migration research today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanyoro, Kudakwashe

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. On Colonialism

2. Decolonization, Decoloniality and Modernity

3. Migration and Colonialism

4. Contemporary Migration Governance

5. Institutionalizing Migration Studies

6. Rethinking Research Partnerships in Migration Studies

7. Participatory Methods and Migration Studies

8. Migration, (De)Coloniality and the Burden of Looking Forward

Über Autor(innen)

Vanyoro, Kudakwashe
Kudakwashe Vanyoro is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand and a 2024-25 A.G. Leventis Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge.