Migration Studies and Colonialism
Migration Studies and Colonialism The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage with colonial histories in making sense…
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Migration Studies and Colonialism
The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. 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 this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders.
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 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.