International Migration Research

Constructions, Omissions and the Promises of Interdisciplinarity

Bibliographic Data

ID19897341
AuthorsEwa Morawska (corresponding author), Ewa T Morawska
EditorsMichael Bommes
Year2017
Pages304
Publication date2017-03-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueInternational Migration Research (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315251998
OpenAlexW4241673817
Open LibraryOL33640157M
ISBN9781315251998
LanguageEN
Citations received33

The centrality of international migration as a process articulating major transformations of contemporary societies offers an opportunity to make it the shared component of the theoretical and research agendas of the social science disciplines. In this volume a multidisciplinary team of authors presents a stocktaking account of current research on international migration in order to lay the ground for such an interdisciplinary collaboration. The first part of the book scrutinizes the theoretical concepts and interpretative frameworks that inform migration research and their impact on empirical studies in selected disciplines. The next two sections examine the epistemological premises underlying migration research in different fields of the social sciences and the challenges of 'informed translations' between these approaches. The final section considers the interdependency between the academic study of migration and the social and political contexts in which it is embedded. The book invites researchers to address the challenges raised by the empowerment of migration research, offering ways of communicating across different specializations and guiding readers towards a meaningful interdisciplinarity

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