Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplinary backgrounds working in Europe, North and South America, South Asia and the Middle East, this volume explores the question of how to ensure that migration research feeds back into improving the lives of migrants. It emphasises the necessarily interdisciplinary and cross-boundary nature of migration research, offering methodological recommendations to anyone studying or working in the field, and showing how migration studies can usefully affect real contexts by better exploring the potential that exists for both bridging academic disciplines and building links with work that occurs beyond strictly academic forums.
Organised around the themes of methodological considerations and interdisciplinary approaches, the experiences of migrants as researchers and interaction between practitioners, policy-makers and academics, Migration Across Boundaries discusses the realities of the discourses that surround international migration, examining the proper role of academia in bringing together a range of stakeholders to formulate dialogic approaches to understanding migration.
An international and interdisciplinary contribution to our understanding of how research in migration can be brought to bear on the experiences of migrants and linked to the work of activists, artists and policy-makers, this book will appeal not only to scholars and students of migration across the social sciences, but also to those working in the fields of migrant advocacy and activism.
Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction, Parvati Nair and Tendayi Bloom; On the border: framing migration interconnectivity between states and societies as diaspora or transnationalism? A response formulated through interdisciplinary lenses, Valeria Bello; Method in the chaos: non-linearity, ephemerality and refugee identity, Suda Perera; Composing theories of justice in an unjust world: using a methodology of interdisciplinary iterative analysis to examine the UK policy of destitution of refused asylum seekers, Tendayi Bloom; Paris 19: mobility, memory and migration, Andrés Borda-González, David Kendall, Abbas Nokhasteh and Moustafa Traoré; Sketches from the margins of marginalized communities: lessons in survival, resilience and resistance acquired from Palestinian refugees, John Halaka; Citizenship narrated: a cross-disciplinary study of family migration and storytelling, Rikke Wagner; Interdisciplinarity at work: ethnopsychiatry, migration and the global subject, Francesco Vacchiano; Cities as lived spaces: making sense of everyday migrant sociability in academic discourses on migration and cities, Megha Amrith; Still photography and moving subjects: migration in the frame of hospitality, Parvati Nair; Index.
