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Race, Rootedness and the Geographies of Sanctuary During the Pandemic

08.02.2023 , in ((Racism in International Migration)) , ((Keine Kommentare))

During a crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, there seems to be an instinctive turn towards sanctuary and roots. In 2020, repatriation flights and exceptions from travel restrictions allowed particular categories of travelers to return home. But our ideas about sanctuary are also restrictive, implicitly leaning on often racialized assumptions about ...

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From Objects to Subjects: Expanding Reflexivity in Migration Studies

01.07.2022 , in ((Reflexive Migration Studies)) , ((Keine Kommentare))

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 mechanisms that prevent the perspectives of scholars with their own ‘migranticization’ experiences to be adequately represented in knowledge ...

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