
Migration Studies and Colonialism
Lucy Mayblin(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2020
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-5095-4293-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"In this book, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner offer a thorough-going critique of the analytical and political blindspots that plague migration studies when posited from the unexamined Eurocentric standpoint of formerly imperial nation-states.? This book provides a synoptic overview of how postcolonial and decolonial critiques are utterly necessary to adequately comprehend cross-border, intercontinental human mobility in our global society, and makes an impassioned appeal to situate the contemporary politics of migration, citizenship, and race within the enduring legacies of colonialism."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 "
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5095-4293-2 (9781509542932)
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Person
Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield.
Joe Turner is Lecturer in Politics at the University of York.
Content
Foreword
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