EuMIGS organizes an online Lecture Series on the topic of De-Centering Migration: Approaches from the Global South. The lectures are open to everyone but are primarily intended for master students.
Lectures take place on Mondays from 11:15 to 12:00 between 13 October and 15 December 2025. The lectures are followed by online seminar sessions reserved for students participating in a course offered jointly by several EuMIGS partner institutes.
Zoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/66422989249?pwd=c1HArY4LICFOUfDWHOYjp9KHMNEhsj.1
Description of the Lecture Series:
The process of critical reflection that migration studies have been undergoing for a few years now calls for a greater commitment to de-centering the scholarly gaze and the ways in which knowledge is produced. This process is guided by postcolonial and decolonial critiques of Western (and even Westernising) and Eurocentric character of migration research, as well as the hegemony of the global North both in the focus of research and spaces in which contributions to this field are produced (Grosfoguel et al., 2015). From this paradigm, the coloniality of knowledge (Quijano, 1999) is criticised and either the inclusion of a greater diversity of knowledge, especially the peripheral (Višic and Cosic, 2020) and subalternized (Spivak, 1985), or a refocusing of academic interest on the Global South (Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, 2020) is called for. This includes a departure from the pervasiveness of methodological nationalism (Wimmer and Glick Schiller 2002) and ethnicity-centred epistemologies (Dahinden 2016) in migration studies. This directs the study of mobility from migration as a ‘disruptor’ of the bounded homogenous nation state (Anderson 2019) to transnational understandings of mobility and the global systems that engenders them, as well as de-centred, re-scaled, and de-migranticised understandings of governance, policy, and other objects of analysis.
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