Tightening the conceptual lens in migration research

This brief note deals directly with what is interpreted as John Mollenkorpf’s epistemological, comparative and regional critique to conceptual thinking in migration studies. The paper is devoted to meta-conceptual thinking. From an analytical point of view, there are three main lines of thought that inspired the author to define a geography of concepts and the need of Weberian approach. First, the distinction between the discussion of a conceptual agenda and the meanings of concepts; second, the definition of what the contextual dependence of concepts may entail; and third, the introduction of a multiscale approach. This conceptual talk is today more necessary than ever, even more so considering the era of great semantic confusion in which we live, where realities and virtuality merge, where evidence sometimes loses its function as an indicator of reality, with so many strategic narratives full of intentions and emotions in migration debates

Conceptual framework · Confusion · Epistemology · Linguistics · Merge (version control) · Narrative · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Philosophy · Psychology