Migration Studies and Colonialism

In this book, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner offer a thoroughgoing critique of the analytical and political blind spots that plague migration studies when posited from the unexamined Eurocentric standpoint of formerly imperial nation-states. This book provides a synoptic overview of how postcolonial and decolonial critiques are utterly necessary to adequately comprehend cross-border, intercontinental human mobility in our global society, and it makes an impassioned appeal to situate the contemporary politics of migration, citizenship and race within the enduring legacies of colonialism. Nicholas De Genova, University of Houston This book is sorely needed. If your students - or you yourself - need to navigate the complex terrain of global violence, expropriation and the movement of people over a very long period, let them read this. Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London The book is a sharp and salutary read. Ethnic and Racial Studies Migration studies and colonialism is a much needed and long-awaited intervention, which renders readily available key literatures that migration scholars should engage with. Mayblin and Turner succeed both in deconstructing the core conceptual apparatus underpinning migration studies' 'sanctioned ignorance', and in reconstructing an outline of what a different kind of migration studies could look like. International Affairs