Migration studies and the decolonial challenge / 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).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collins, Francis L., editor.

Koh, Sin Yee, editor.

Yeoh, Brenda S. A., editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Decolonizing research series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"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 conceptualizing and researching migration while considering the scope and potential for decolonization 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 field's 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 decolonization"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction to migration studies and the decolonial challenge / Sin Yee Koh, Francis L. Collins and Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Part I: Epistemological challenges

2. Producing borders: Migration control and the colonial present / Radhika Mongia

3. Enduring and emergent challenges to post/decolonising migration studies / Sin Yee Koh

4. Onto-epistemic resistance: On the materiality of decolonizing migration studies / Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez

5. Are we not also scholars! An African perspective on decolonial migration studies / Kudakwashe Vanyoro

6. Decolonizing migration studies = abolishing nation-states and their borders / Nandita Sharma

7. A Māori migration studies must come from below! / Simon Barber (Kāi Tahu) and Gabriella Brayne (Ngāti Maniapoto Sāmoa)

8. 'Don't want to be called a climate refugee': Indigenising climate mobilities / Carol Farbotko and Taukiei Kitara

9. Decolonizing refugee discourses: Freedom to escape and freedom to remain / Sedef Arat-Koç

Part II: Political and methodological challenges

10. Whiteness in migration and its study / Sarah Kunz

11. Intellectual versus institutional decolonisation in the study of gender in Asian women's migrations / Anju Mary Paul

12. Integration and migration: Singapore as a de-colonizing lens / Junjia Ye

13. De-centring epistemic coloniality at the research-policy interface: Migration studies and the migration state / Francis L. Collins

14. Making sense of colonial legacies: Methods for linking past and present in migration studies / Lucy Mayblinand Joe Turner

15. Post-socialist coloniality? How to address the decolonial challenge in migration studies under the post-socialist condition / Anna Amelinaand Friz M. Trzeciak

16. Beyond the 'victim gaze': Reflections on methodological challenges in researching un/freedom and labour migration / Sallie Yea

17. Decolonizing the figure of the "migrant": Non-binary categorizations and intra-asian mobilities / Laavanya Kathiravelu

18. Decentring migration scholars, centring paradoxes: Autoethnography as resistance / Sylvia Ang.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035328307 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.