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Migrants as knowledge producers
Yonas Tadesse, a Hadiya returnee migrant, wrote a self-history and reflection of his migration experiences in a Tanzanian detention facility. Published as a book, his story highlights the need to centre migrants as knowledge producers in migration studies.
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Decolonising gender and migration research through collaborative thinking and practice
A two-day virtual workshop brought together researchers working on gender from across MIDEQ to explore key concepts on gender, migration and inequality as well as approaches to collaborating across Northern and Southern institutions in ways that decentre and decolonise research on gender and migration.
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Coloniality, migration research and epistemic injustice
This blog introduces one part of these debates, namely recent critiques of Eurocentrism in migration research, and discusses it in relation to recent scholarship in feminist philosophy.
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The peripheries as territories of potencies
Perceptions of peripheries and those who live in them are often defined by negative stereotypes and stigma. These perceptions shape public policies and opinions, yet they do not accurately reflect the experiences of people living in the peripheries. This blog argues that in order to understand these communities, we must recognise their voices to shape their own narratives.
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