Migration research, coloniality and epistemic injustice

Landström, K ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7681-0857 and Crawley, H, 2024. Migration research, coloniality and epistemic injustice. In: Crawley, H and Teye, JK, eds., The Palgrave handbook of South–South migration and inequality. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 83-104. ISBN 9783031398131

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Abstract

In this chapter, we take stock of existing critiques of contemporary migration research and bring these debates into contact with ongoing debates among decolonial scholars and in feminist social epistemology. We illustrate how the ethical and epistemic concerns voiced by migration scholars in regard to the socio-epistemic functioning of their field can be understood using the conceptual apparatus that has been developed around the notions of epistemic injustice and oppression. In so doing, we illustrate the relevance and usefulness of both feminist social epistemology and of decolonial theory for theorising the socio-epistemic challenges that migration scholars face. The conceptual framework of epistemic injustice and oppression not only offers clarity in what is at stake within migration studies both ethically and epistemically, but also elucidates moral and epistemic reasons for why these issues should be addressed. This framework both calls attention to issues of undue epistemic marginalisation, and centres these issues as a core concern as migration scholars critically reflect upon the knowledge production and dissemination practices of their field. Understanding the processes through which this happens, rather than just the epistemic outcomes, can help us to identify ways to address the structural inequalities with which the production of migration knowledge is often associated.

Item Type:	Chapter in book
Creators:	Landström, K. and Crawley, H.
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:	Cham, Switzerland
Date:	2024
ISBN:	9783031398131
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/978-3-031-39814-8_5 DOI 1849274 Other
Rights:	© 2024 The Author(s) This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	29 May 2024 10:52
Last Modified:	29 May 2024 10:52
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/51482

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