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Title: Migration Studies and Colonialism
Condition: New
EAN: 9781509542949
ISBN: 9781509542949
Publisher: Polity Press
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 18/12/2020
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 398g
Language: English
Description:

The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage with colonial histories in making sense of migratory phenomena today.

This book starts from the premise that colonial histories should be central to migration studies and explores what it would mean to really take that seriously. To engage with this task, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner argue that scholars need not forge new theories but must learn from and be inspired by the wealth of literature that already exists across the world. Providing a range of inspiring and challenging perspectives on migration, the authors’ aim is to demonstrate what paying attention to colonialism, through using the tools offered by postcolonial, decolonial and related scholarship, can offer those studying international migration today.

Offering a vital intervention in the field, this important book asks scholars and students of migration to explore the histories and continuities of colonialism in order to better understand the present.


Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Author: Lucy Mayblin, Joe Turner
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Release Year: 2020

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