Racism in/Through Migration Studies

Author(s) : Faten Khazaei

Source : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03337-6_9

Abstract:

Many scholars have been critical of the role Migration Studies play in the problematisation of ‘migrants’. This chapter is concerned with this political problem and links it to the rare and only recent attention to race and racism within Migration Studies. I argue that to avoid the risk of contributing, however unwillingly, to the upholding of a racial order of things, we need to tackle the issues of racism explicitly. Some lessons learned from Critical Race Studies and Postcolonial Studies would be discussed to give examples of the ways in which that literature has tackled similar concerns of Migration Studies for decades, without taking the risk of contributing to the European neocolonial and racist governance of immigration.