scholarly journals On migration, geography, and epistemic communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell King
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
Lifestyle Migration ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration And Development

Abstract This commentary paper starts by questioning the assumption that migration means international migration, and goes on to affirm that migration studies has indeed come of age as a coherent if highly diverse research field. Several emerging epistemic communities are identified: migration and development; gender and migration; lifestyle migration; and youth and student migrations. Finally, I argue that the role of geography in the study of migration has been under-valued.

scholarly journals Unequal internationalisation and the emergence of a new epistemic community: gender and migration

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonore Kofman
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Epistemic Community ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Bibliometric Measures

Abstract In this contribution to the formation of an epistemic community and its knowledge production developed in the Paper Between fragmentation and institutionalisation: the rise of migration studies as a research field, I seek to go beyond the bibliometric analysis, and in particular explore the nature of its internationalisation, the connections authors have across the globe and the unequal valuation of differently located research. These aspects underpin networks in the formation and evolution of epistemic communities. I shall illustrate my points through an epistemic community which has grown significantly in the past two decades, but scarcely gains a mention in the Paper. Gender and migration can be placed within the much broader cluster of globalisation, and especially in more recent years, transnationalism. My analysis does not start from bibliometric measures, which I do not have, but is based on selected reviews at different stages of the emergence of this field and my own involvement in it since the early 1990s.

scholarly journals Global dynamics of international migration systems across South–South, North–North, and North–South flows, 1990–2015

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego F. Leal ◽  
Nicolas L. Harder
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Global Dynamics ◽  
Core Set ◽  
Migration Dynamics ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Systems

AbstractEvidence from 184 countries over the span of 25 years is gathered and analyzed to understand North–North, South–South, and North–South international migration flows. Conceptually, the analysis borrows from network theory and Migration Systems Theory (MST) to develop a model to characterize the structure and evolution of international migration flows. Methodologically, the Stochastic Actor-oriented Model of network dynamics is used to jointly model the three types of flows under analysis. Results show that endogenous network effects at the monadic, dyadic, and triadic levels of analysis are relevant to understand the emergence and evolution of migration flows. The findings also show that a core set of non-network covariates, suggested by MST as key drivers of migration flows, does not always explain migration dynamics in the systems under analysis in a consistent fashion; thus, suggesting the existence of important levels of heterogeneity inherent to these three types of flows. Finally, evidence related to the role of political instability and countries’ care deficits is also discussed as part of the analysis. Overall, the results highlight the importance of analyzing flows across the globe beyond typically studied migratory corridors (e.g., North–South flows) or regions (e.g., Europe).

scholarly journals Geography, Islands and Migration in an Era of Global Mobility

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-84
Author(s):  
Russell King
Keyword(s):  
Human Migration ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Migration Dynamics ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Changing Role

This paper examines the changing role of islands in the age of globalization and in an era of enhanced and diversified mobility. There are many types of islands, many metaphors of insularity, and many types of migration, so the interactions are far from simple. The ‘mobilities turn’ in migration studies recognizes the diversification in motivations and time-space regimes of human migration. After brief reviews of island studies and of migration studies, and the power of geography to capture and distil the interdisciplinarity and relationality of these two study domains, the paper explores various facets of the generally intense engagement that islands have with migration. Two particular scenarios are identified for islands and migration in the global era: the heuristic role of islands as ‘spatial laboratories’ for the study of diverse migration processes in microcosm; and the way in which, especially in the Mediterranean and near-Atlantic regions, islands have become critical locations in the geopolitics of irregular migration routes. The case of Malta is taken to illustrate some of these new insular migration dynamics.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Approaches to Refugee and Migration Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Vannini ◽  
Ricardo Gomez ◽  
Megan Carney ◽  
Katharyne Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
And Migration

We reflect on the experience of a cross-disciplinary collaboration between scholars in the fields of geography, anthropology, communication, and information studies, and suggest paths for future research on sanctuary and migration studies that are based on interdisciplinary approaches. After situating sanctuary in a wider theoretical, historical, and global context, we discuss the origins and contemporary expressions of sanctuary both within and beyond faith-based organizations. We include the role of collective action, personal stories, and artistic expressions as part of the new sanctuary movement, as well as the social and political forms of outrage that lead to rekindling protest and protection of undocumented immigrants, refugees, and other minorities and vulnerable populations. We conclude with a discussion on the urgency for interdisciplinary explorations of these kinds of new, contemporary manifestations of sanctuary, and suggest paths for further research to deepen the academic dialogue on the topic.

scholarly journals Uncertainty and Complexity: Towards Model-Based Demography

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-29
Author(s):  
Jakub Bijak
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Formal Modelling ◽  
Model Based ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Micro Foundations

AbstractThis chapter focuses on the broad methodological and philosophical underpinnings of the Bayesian model-based approach to studying migration. Starting from reflections on the uncertainty and complexity in demography and, in particular, migration studies, the focus moves to the shifting role of formal modelling, from merely describing, to predicting and explaining population processes. Of particular importance are the gaps in understanding asylum migration flows, which are some of the least predictable while at the same time most consequential forms of human mobility. The well-recognised theoretical void of demography as a discipline does not help, especially given the lack of empirical micro-foundations in formal modelling. Here, we analyse possible solutions to theoretical shortcomings of demography and migration studies from the point of view of the philosophy of science, looking at the inductive, deductive and abductive approaches to scientific reasoning. In that spirit, the final section introduces and extends a research programme of model-based demography.

scholarly journals “We Become Capable of Handling Everything”: Gender and Gulf Migration in Kerala, South India

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Kathryn Gerry
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Work Abroad

Women have a uniquely gendered experience with worker migration from Kerala, South India to the Gulf, a phenomenon which touches virtually every household in this state. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kerala, this article examines the intersections of gender and migration; I argue that migration fuels significant social change in terms of gender expectations and the role of women as economic agents. My fieldwork reveals that women work abroad due to personal circumstances and to conform to local ideas about modernity. Migrants’ wives also experience increased autonomy in their daily lives. These two categories of women, migrant women and the wives of male migrants, are attuned to others’ perceptions of their roles vis-à-vis migration. Despite occasional negative feedback, women report that they are empowered by worker migration. This project builds on scholarship examining the status of women in Kerala (Eapen and Kodoth 2003), the experiences of migrant spouses (Osella 2016), and female Christian nurses’ Gulf migration (Percot 2006). I extend this work by analyzing the personal narratives of individual women who work in the Gulf, head their own households in Kerala, and experience stigmatization because of emigration. Finally, I explored the broader implications of migration for the lifestyles and aspirations of women in Kerala.

Gender and Migration

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Syswerda
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Muslim Identities

While much of the literature about Muslim identities has tended to focus on British-born Muslims in densely populated ‘Muslim’ localities, the experiences of Muslim migrants living outside such localities have been largely overlooked. This leaves unanswered questions about the role of ‘other’ women – that is, women from diverse religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds – in shaping Muslim migrant women’s sense of self and their attitudes towards post-migration life. This chapter seeks to address this oversight by exploring the ways in which recent Muslim migrant women to Scotland construct new identities in relation to the ‘other’ women whom they encounter in their post-migration, everyday lives, including friends, neighbours and local community members. Thus, this chapter steps off from what is now a ‘relatively widespread understanding of the self as a relational achievement’ (Conradson and McKay, 2007: 167).

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