Migration Studies and Colonialism - Softcover

Mayblin, Lucy; Turner, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509542949 ISBN 13: 9781509542949

Verlag: Polity, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield.
Joe Turner is Lecturer in Politics at the University of York.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1509542949
• ISBN 13: 9781509542949
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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