Researching the researcher
Producing Emotionally-Sensed Knowledge in Migration Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2149386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Genova (0000-0003-1366-268X, University of Nottingham, corresponding author), Elisabetta Zontini (0000-0002-6011-788X, University of Nottingham) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1499-1522 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2023.2263084 |
| OpenAlex | W4387373541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 46 |
Reflexivity has been central to recent debates in migration studies, focusing on how migration scholarship can become more equitable, inclusive, and attuned to the power dynamics inherent in research processes. In this article, we advance these debates by demonstrating the role of emotions as crucial tools for knowledge production. Drawing on feminist qualitative research, we introduce our emotionally-sensed approach to account for the role of emotions across the different, yet inter-related, stages of the research process. More specifically, we operationalise the processes of constructing, generating and producing emotionally-sensed knowledge and illustrate them with examples from our ethnographic research on the impact of Brexit on EU migrants in the UK. The paper makes the case for emotionally-sensed knowledge as part of the reflexive turn in migration studies and provides strategies to more consistently incorporate researchers' emotions in processes of knowledge production
Epistemology · Ethnography · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Political science · Power (physics · Process (computing · Reflexivity · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
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The Managed Heart
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Tracing the circulation of emotions in Swiss migration enforcement
Knowledge production, reflexivity, and the use of categories in migration studies
Feeling race
‘Detention is morally exhausting’
Migration studies
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New directions in migration studies
Integration
Against ‘immigrant integration’
Revisiting geographies of temporalities
After the reflexive turn in migration studies
And then came Brexit
Working with emotion
Producing emotionally sensed knowledge? Reflexivity and emotions in researching responses to death
Emotions and Research
Power, difference and mobility
The place of emotions in academic research
Embodied research in migration studies
We are of the connections
Challenging the discipline of migration
Introduction
Situated Knowledges
Reflections on the Role of Emotion in Feminist Research
Researching sensitive topics
Doing sensitive research
Biographical Entanglements, Self-Reflexivity, and Transnational Knowledge Production
Emotional Labor in Critical Ethnographic Work
Social Relationships and Emotions
Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change
With a Heavy Heart
Putting Emotion and Reflexivity to Work in Researching Migration
Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis
Methodological nationalism and beyond
A plea for the 'de-migranticization' of research on migration and integration
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |