Decentering the Study of Migration Governance in the Mediterranean

Zardo, Federica; Wolff, Sarah

doi:10.1080/14650045.2021.1978944

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“…Another special issue on Migration in Geopolitics seeks to advance epistemologies of displacement by decentering migration governance in the Mediterranean and exploring the applicability of a decentering approach to migration studies generally (Zardo and Wolff, 2022a). This decentering approach requires thinking outside the conventional analytic frameworks and allowing overlooked or ignored perspectives to emerge while focusing on agentic methods and experiences of migrants to move beyond the established understandings of the time-space geographies of migration.…”

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“…The continued increase of human displacement highlights multiple political crises globally, from the ongoing but largely ignored crisis in Afghanistan to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (Lizotte et al, 2022; Moisio, 2022; Murphy, 2022) and the massive displacements caused by climate-related and other environmental disasters (Lunstrum and Bose, 2022)—such as the recent floods in Pakistan that left nearly 1700 dead and displaced over 30 million people. There has also been extensive scholarship, particularly in the last year, attending to migration, border control, and the role of states and non-governmental institutions in the management and control of human mobility and resettlement (Lemaire et al, 2021; Myadar and Dempsey, 2022; Savio Vammen et al, 2022; Strauss, 2022; Zardo and Wolff, 2022a). The edited handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration assembles an extensive collection migration research among geographies from various perspectives (Mitchell et al, 2019).…”

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Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics

Fluri

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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This report provides an overview of contemporary scholarship on the geopolitics and political geographies of migration. There has also been an extensive amount of scholarship, including several special issues focused on migration, borders, and displacement from state and non-state institutional management to the everyday experiences of individual migrants. The political geographies and geopolitics of human displacement in this report are organized into the following thematic categories: state and institutional management, institutionalized suspicion of migrant populations, border management techniques and technologies, and re-centering migrant experiences.

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Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics

Fluri

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…As such, decentring can take various forms with different implications for scholarship. Imported from its counterpart in International Relations (IR), which calls for diversifying and decentring the study of global affairs (Tickner and Waever 2009;Nayak and Selbin 2010;Acharya 2014;Hurrell 2017;Tickner and Smith 2020), this debate also emerged in European scholarship, criticising Eurocentrism in its various forms (Hobson 2012;Sabaratnam 2013) and arguing for a 'Decentring Agenda' for EU External Action Studies, geared towards finding tools to overcome the identified Euro-, EU-and broader Western centrism in scholarship and practice (Fisher Onar andNicolaïdis 2013, 2021;Huber and Kamel 2018;Lecocq 2018, 2021;Huber and Paciello 2020;Wolff et al 2022;Zardo and Wolff 2022).…”

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Critical and Problem-Solving Perspectives on Decentring EU External Action Studies

Lecocq,

Keukeleire

2023

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This article proposes a decentring approach for EU External Action Studies as a debate that is ‘disrupting’ the mainstream in European Studies. It theoretically contributes to the decentring debate in three ways. First, by identifying decentring as a meta-theoretical current of thinking, the article helps define the decentring debate as an area of theorising which can accommodate scholars from various backgrounds and bring them together around a common commitment to overcome Euro- and Western centrism in scholarship (and practice). Second, the article states the wider relevance of taking a decentring approach, which entails normative and instrumental benefits for scholarship, teaching and practice. By doing so, the article underscores the ethical imperative of disrupting a field of study on the one hand, but also the usefulness and even the necessity of disruption as a problem-solving approach to the benefit of a field’s mainstream centre on the other. Third, the article shows how the decentring debate accommodates both critical and problem-solving theorising, and proposes potential theoretical anchors in existing bodies of work. Finally, it discusses the inherent paradox that follows from critical and problem-solving approaches to decentring specifically and disruptive theorising more broadly.

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Migration Research, Coloniality and Epistemic Injustice

Landström,

Crawley

2023

The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality

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In this chapter, we take stock of existing critiques of contemporary migration research and bring these debates into contact with ongoing debates among decolonial scholars and in feminist social epistemology. We illustrate how the ethical and epistemic concerns voiced by migration scholars in regard to the socio-epistemic functioning of their field can be understood using the conceptual apparatus that has been developed around the notions of epistemic injustice and oppression. In so doing, we illustrate the relevance and usefulness of both feminist social epistemology and of decolonial theory for theorising the socio-epistemic challenges that migration scholars face. The conceptual framework of epistemic injustice and oppression not only offers clarity in what is at stake within migration studies both ethically and epistemically, but also elucidates moral and epistemic reasons for why these issues should be addressed. This framework both calls attention to issues of undue epistemic marginalisation, and centres these issues as a core concern as migration scholars critically reflect upon the knowledge production and dissemination practices of their field. Understanding the processes through which this happens, rather than just the epistemic outcomes, can help us to identify ways to address the structural inequalities with which the production of migration knowledge is often associated.

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Decentering the Study of Migration Governance in the Mediterranean

Cited by 17 publications

References 78 publications

Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics

Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics

Critical and Problem-Solving Perspectives on Decentring EU External Action Studies

Migration Research, Coloniality and Epistemic Injustice

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