De-migranticizing Migrancy: Approaching Migration and (In)mobility Analysis through Rhizomatic Thinking, Feminist Epistemes and the Embodied Experience of Migration
De-migranticizing Migrancy: Approaching Migration and (In)mobility Analysis through Rhizomatic Thinking, Feminist Epistemes and the Embodied Experience of Migration

Author(s): Renato de Almeida Arão Galhardi
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: De-migranticizing Migrancy; Migration; (In)mobility; Analysis through Rhizomatic Thinking; Feminist Epistemes; Embodied Experience of Migration;
Summary/Abstract: Despite the widely accepted argument to abandon methodological nationalism in international migration analysis (Wimmer and Schiller, 2003), much of the analysis that primes migration policies around the world still speak through the Nation-State (Bommes and Thränhardt, 2012; Dahinden, 2016). How, then, can migration research attend and attest to the critique of methodological nationalism? One way to do so is to de-migranticize migration analysis. By taking feminist epistemologies and methodologies seriously in migration analysis, and thinking “rhizomatically”, it becomes possible to de-centre epistemic normative reproductions of migration descriptions, and create better narratives of migration phenomena, that embody migration over national methodological constraints and frameworks.

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