Reflexivities in Migration Studies Blog
Deadline 31.10.2025
As migration scholars, we analyse, problematize and critique discourses, narratives and imaginaries about migration, as produced by states, civil society, migrants and other actors. But when it comes to our own imaginaries and visions as researchers,...
Podcast news! {expert}Janine Dahinden|||{/expert}, co-director of the Standing Committee "Reflexivities in Migration Studies", discusses together with Manos Dias-Abey the question of how people become ‘migrants’. Episode 3 of the MMB podcast ‘ Migration...
07.07.2022
by {expert}Christine Lang|||{/expert} Reflexive approaches in migration studies have revealed the problems of traditional constructions of the objects of migration research. Much less attention has been paid to the subjects doing the research and the...
14.06.2022
by Sophie Cranston and Karine Duplan In political and popular discourse, migration is alternately portrayed as a problem to be managed or a danger to be fought. Consequently, the term appears to carry with it a set of social and political issues....
21.06.2022
by {expert}Stefan Manser-Egli|||{/expert} ‘Respecting the values of the constitution’ is one of the most recent requirements in Swiss integration law. In the last decades, academic voices reproducing narratives of ‘cultural distance’ have contributed to...
23.06.2022
by Calogero Giametta Migration research has historically conceived migrants as heterosexual, and rendered gender and sexual identity invisible. It is only recently that the intersection of queer and migration studies has produced critical knowledge...
16.06.2022
by Rama Srinivasan Integration policies are often perceived in academic works as gatekeeping instruments but, while they can certainly be deployed as such, this framing does not fully represent the variety of immigrant perspectives in my study. My own...
07.06.2022
by {expert}Halleh Ghorashi|||{/expert} Since 2015, the study of refugee inclusion has become a booming business. However, research and policies are still quite disconnected from refugees’ lives. Reflective infrastructures can help refugees, other...
by Cecilia Bruzelius and Isabel Shutes Over the recent years, there has been growing attention to cross-national migration in social policy research. Yet migration is often seen as external to the development of welfare systems. Moreover, the...
02.06.2022
by Ipek Demir The seminal article by Wimmer and Glick Schiller laid the foundations of what came to be known as critical and reflexive migration studies scholarship. The article rightfully challenged methodological nationalism. I argue, however, that...