Lucy Mayblin - Migration Studies and Colonialism

1 Title page Migration Studies and Colonialism Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner polity

2 Copyright page

3 Acknowledgements

4 Foreword Gurminder K. Bhambra

5 1 IntroductionMigration studies and colonialism The growing call to ‘decolonize’ the social sciences Does migration studies need to think about colonialism? Postcolonialism, decoloniality and Third World approaches to international law Structure of the book

6 2 Time and Space: Migration and ModernityIntroduction Problematizing the concept of modernity in the social sciences Eurocentrism North, South, East and West in colonial modernity Modernity, migration and development Can Eurocentrism be overcome? Conclusion

7 3 ‘Race’ and Racism in International MigrationIntroduction Empire and the invention of race Knowledge, modernity and huMan Race, violence and slavery Racism’s two registers: biology and culture Race, movement and immigration Conclusion

8 4 Putting Sovereignty, Citizenship and Migration in Dialogue with Past and Present ColonialismsIntroduction Connected histories, connected sociologies Migration as decolonization Indigenous sovereignty and immigration No borders? Conclusion

9 5 Deconstructing Forced Migration, Rethinking AsylumIntroduction Asylum is a human right: postcolonial and decolonial perspectives on ‘man’ and ‘human’ The myth of difference and the silencing of colonialism Man and human as a colonial construct Uprooting: deconstructing forced migration Necropolitics: governing the uprooted through death Conclusion

10 6 Towards a Colonial Account of Security and BordersIntroduction Terrorism and race Anti-Muslim racism as ‘bio-cultural’ Colonial rule and security Towards a global account of security and borders Securitization in the Global South Postcolonial borders (in Palestine) Decolonizing borders Political violence and terror Conclusions

11 7 Gender, Sexuality, Colonialism … and MigrationIntroduction Gender and sexuality in migration studies Intersectionality Decolonial feminism: the coloniality of gender Ungendering and anti-blackness Queer-of-colour critique Conclusion

12 8 Conclusion

13 References

14 Index

15 End User License Agreement

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Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner

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Names: Mayblin, Lucy, author. | Turner, Joe B., author.

Title: Migration studies and colonialism / Lucy Mayblin & Joe Turner.

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Why colonial histories are crucial to understanding migration today”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020022233 (print) | LCCN 2020022234 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509542932 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509542949 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509542956 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Emigration and immigration--Social aspects. | Postcolonialism--Social aspects. | Imperialism--History.

Classification: LCC JV6033 .M39 2021 (print) | LCC JV6033 (ebook) | DDC 304.8--dc23

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