Migration Studies and Colonialism
Author: Lucy Mayblin & Joe Turner
Publisher: Polity
Year of Publication: 2021
Print Length: 256 pages
Genre: Academic / Scholarly Book
Topic: Migration, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; Modernity, Modernism, Modern; Racism, Imperialism, Sovereignty, Citizenship, Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum, Asylum & Refugee System, Security, Borders, Gender, Sexuality, Mobility & Immobility, Movement of People and Ideas, Freedom to Move and to Stay
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Gurminder K. Bhambra
1. Introduction
2. Time and Space: Migration and Modernity
3. ‘Race’ and 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
8. Conclusion
References
Index
Lucy Mayblin is a Political Sociologist whose research focuses on asylum, human rights, policy-making, and the legacies of colonialism. She holds a first class degree from the University of Birmingham and Distinctions at Masters level from the Universities of Birmingham (European Studies) and Warwick (Social Research Methods) as well as a PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick. She is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of Sheffield.
Source: https://www.international.ucla.edu/migration/event/14187
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Joe Turner is Senior Lecturer in Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of York. His research focuses on the organisation of violence in Northern liberal states, specifically how border regimes reproduce structural, epistemic and bio-physical violence. He explores how post metropoles like Britain function as postcolonial states, and how border regimes in such spaces are structured by imperial and colonial histories and hierarchies of human value. He is interested in how the knowledge and practice of borders, citizenship and mobility form a central role in colonial/global systems of international politics.
Source: https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/people/academicstaff/turnerjoe/
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