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Decentring knowledge
Decentring knowledge production
Many assumptions are made about migration worldwide. Discourse and narrative relating to migration is often pernicious, erroneous and uses stock concepts. It is also based on partial knowledge filtered through the knowledge regimes of the Global North and the media of the Global North. This blog seeks to lay bare the normative assumptions in research and discourse about migration and to open up a stream of work whereby the causes and effects of these discourses and inequalities in knowledge production relating to migration and development in the South and in the North, can be interrogated.
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Decentring knowledge
Migration in West Africa
This open access Regional Reader examines the dynamics and impacts of international migration within and from West Africa.
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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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Q&A: South-South migration has long been overlooked. Why?
The New Humanitarian explores the importance of decolonising the narrative of migration with MIDEQ Co-Director Professor Joseph Teye.
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