Standing Committees Blogs
05.11.2024
by Lori Wilkinson , PhD, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada This blog is based on a presentation I gave at the 3 rd Annual Meth@Mig Workshop in Mannheim in April 2024. Research Ethics Boards wield...
22.07.2024
by {expert}|4329|2|{/expert} Besides serving as a melting pot with residents from 170 nations and 43 percent of its population having a migration background, Mannheim was also the host city for migration researchers from all around the world on April...
Transnational families are families whose members are dispersed across two or more countries and who share a sense of collective familyhood across borders (Bryceson and Vuorela 2002). Doing family across borders is a growing form of family that has...
Around one year ago, I set out for my fieldwork in Jamaica . My PhD project seeks to understand how the Chinese community in Jamaica experiences and understands love. I see love both as an analytical category through which to catch a glimpse of...
Among the many biases crippling migration studies, one of the most common is the ‘mobility bias’. This, as theorized by Kerilyn Schewel in a seminal article published in 2020 , refers to the disregard of immobility dynamics, including the drivers,...
2022/07/08
by {expert}Justyna Salamońska|485|2|{/expert} How to research stories of people on the move? How to track their mobility in real-time? How to learn about realised and unrealised mobility plans? In this blog entry, I will focus on methods to research...
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...