Migration Studies and the Decolonial Challenge

Edited by Francis L. Collins, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, Sin Yee Koh, Senior Assistant Professor of Asian Migration, Mobility and Diaspora, Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam and Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• Contents1 Introduction to Migration Studies and the DecolonialChallenge 1Sin Yee Koh, Francis L. Collins and Brenda S. A. YeohPART I Epistemological Challenges2 Producing borders: migration control and the colonial present 21Radhika Mongia3 Enduring and emergent challenges to post/decolonisingmigration studies 38Sin Yee Koh4 Onto-epistemic resistance: on the materiality of decolonizingmigration studies 56Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez5 Are we not also scholars! An African perspective ondecolonial migration studies 74Kudakwashe Vanyoro6 Decolonizing migration studies = abolishing nation-states andtheir borders 90Nandita Sharma7 A Māori migration studies must come from below! 113Simon Barber (Kāi Tahu) and Gabriella Brayne (NgātiManiapoto Sāmoa8 ‘Don’t want to be called a climate refugee’: Indigenisingclimate mobilities 133Carol Farbotko and Taukiei Kitara9 Decolonizing refugee discourses: freedom to escape andfreedom to remain 151Sedef Arat-KoçPART II Political and Methodological Challenges10 Whiteness in migration and its study 169Sarah Kunz11 Intellectual versus institutional decolonisation in the study ofgender in Asian women’s migrations 186Anju Mary Paul12 Integration and migration: Singapore as a de-colonizing lens 201Junjia Ye13 De-centring epistemic coloniality at the research-policyinterface: migration studies and the migration state 216Francis L. Collins14 Making sense of colonial legacies: methods for linking pastand present in migration studies 235Lucy Mayblinand Joe Turner15 Post-socialist coloniality? How to address the decolonialchallenge in migration studies under the post-socialistcondition 252Anna Amelinaand Friz M. Trzeciak16 Beyond the ‘victim gaze’: reflections on methodologicalchallenges in researching un/freedom and labour migration 271Sallie Yea17 Decolonizing the figure of the “migrant”: non-binarycategorizations and intra-Asian mobilities 286Laavanya Kathiravelu18 Decentring migration scholars, centring paradoxes:autoethnography as resistance 305Sylvia Ang

‘A highly valuable collection. It makes the case that decolonializing migration studies entails not only retheorization but more importantly changes in research practice. In addition to exploring how migration studies can be decolonialized in specific ways, the chapters also show that migration studies in turn constitutes a strategic field where a range of existing fundamental categories can be rethought and reshaped.’