Migration - Changing Concepts, Critical Approaches

Recent debates on migration have demonstrated the important role of concepts in academic and political discourse.
The contributions to this collection revisit established analytical categories in the study of migration such as border regimes, orders of belonging, coloniality, translation, trans/national digital culture and memory. Exploring notions, images and realities of migration in their cultural framings, this volume sheds light on the powerful work of these concepts. Including perspectives on migration from history, visual studies, pedagogy, literary and cultural studies, cultural anthropology and sociology, it explores the complex scholarly and popular notions of migration with particular focus on their often unspoken assumptions and political implications.
Revisiting established analytical tools in the study of migration, the interdisciplinary contributions explore new approaches and point to the importance of conceptual nuance extending beyond academic discourse.

About the author

Doris Bachmann-Medick, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. Jens Kugele, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dori Bachmann-Medick (Editor), Doris Bachmann-Medick (Editor), Kugele (Editor), Jens Kugele (Editor)
• Publisher: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 466 g
• Illustrations: 4 b/w ill.
• Series: Concepts for the Study of Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Demographie, Kognitionswissenschaft, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Zuwanderung, Bevölkerung / Demographie, Soziologie / Bevölkerung, Siedlung, Stadt, Wanderung (soziologisch), Migration (soziologisch), Concepts of Migration; Border Regimes; Politics of Belonging; Cultural Translation