
Can Migration Studies be Decolonized?
Kudakwashe Vanyoro(Author)
Bristol University Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 28. April 2026
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-1-5292-4236-2 (ISBN)
Description
What does it really mean to "decolonize" migration studies? Often the term is used as a slogan, without asking whether it genuinely changes research or simply replaces one dominant framework with another.
This book explores when decolonial approaches create new openings and when they risk shutting down debate. Drawing on vivid case studies from partnerships between North and South, to fieldwork, reciprocity and participatory methods, the book offers fresh insights into how ideas of decolonization play out in practice.
This is essential reading for anyone rethinking migration research today.
This book explores when decolonial approaches create new openings and when they risk shutting down debate. Drawing on vivid case studies from partnerships between North and South, to fieldwork, reciprocity and participatory methods, the book offers fresh insights into how ideas of decolonization play out in practice.
This is essential reading for anyone rethinking migration research today.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-4236-2 (9781529242362)
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Kudakwashe Vanyoro
Can Migration Studies be Decolonized?
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Kudakwashe Vanyoro is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand and a 2024-25 A.G. Leventis Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Content
Introduction
1. On Colonialism
2. Decolonization, Decoloniality and Modernity
3. Migration and Colonialism
4. Contemporary Migration Governance
5. Institutionalizing Migration Studies
6. Rethinking Research Partnerships in Migration Studies
7. Participatory Methods and Migration Studies
8. Migration, (De)Coloniality and the Burden of Looking Forward
1. On Colonialism
2. Decolonization, Decoloniality and Modernity
3. Migration and Colonialism
4. Contemporary Migration Governance
5. Institutionalizing Migration Studies
6. Rethinking Research Partnerships in Migration Studies
7. Participatory Methods and Migration Studies
8. Migration, (De)Coloniality and the Burden of Looking Forward