Migration Studies and Colonialism
1. Auflage Dezember 2020
256 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage with colonial histories in making sense of migratory phenomena today.
This book starts from the premise that colonial histories should be central to migration studies and explores what it would mean to really take that seriously. To engage with this task, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner argue that scholars need not forge new theories but must learn from and be inspired by the wealth of literature that already exists across the world. Providing a range of inspiring and challenging perspectives on migration, the authors' aim is to demonstrate what paying attention to colonialism, through using the tools offered by postcolonial, decolonial and related scholarship, can offer those studying international migration today. Offering a vital intervention in the field, this important book asks scholars and students of migration to explore the histories and continuities of colonialism in order to better understand the present.
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The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage with colonial histories in making sense of migratory phenomena today.
This book starts from the premise that colonial histories should be central to migration studies and explores what it would mean to really take that seriously. To engage with this task, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner argue that scholars need not forge new theories but must learn from and be inspired by the wealth of literature that already exists across the world. Providing a range of inspiring and challenging perspectives on migration, the authors' aim is to demonstrate what paying attention to colonialism, through using the tools offered by postcolonial, decolonial and related scholarship, can offer those studying international migration today. Offering a vital intervention in the field, this important book asks scholars and students of migration to explore the histories and continuities of colonialism in order to better understand the present.
1. Introduction
2. Time and Space: Migration and Modernity
3. 'Race' & Racism in International Migration
4. Putting sovereignty, citizenship and migration in dialogue with past and present colonialisms
5. Deconstructing Forced Migration, Rethinking Asylum
6. Towards a Colonial Account of Security and Borders
7. Gender, Sexuality, Colonialism... and Migration
9. Conclusion
References
Nicholas De Genova, University of Houston
"This book is sorely needed. If your students -- or you yourself -- need to navigate the complex terrain of global violence, expropriation and the movement of people over a very long period, let them read this."
Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London
"The book is a sharp and salutary read."
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Joe Turner is Lecturer in Politics at the University of York.
