Scholars of Excellence Workshop: Becoming A Migration Researcher

The growth of the interdisciplinary field of migration studies and the societal demand for migration-related knowledge have produced a new social persona – the migration researcher. Migration researchers are all uniquely influenced by their personal social, geographical, academic and biographical contexts. Conversely, migration researchers’ experiences, practices, concepts, interpretations and research-based interventions into scientific and public discourses contribute to the ongoing negotiation of migration. Assuming that the ways of becoming a migration researcher are key to a more nuanced understanding of the potentials and limitations of knowledge production on migration, the workshop explores the multiple manifestations and roles of migration researchers.

The workshop will explore the following questions: How does one become a migration researcher? Does one need to be a migrant to study migration? How are one’s lived experiences driving one’s research on migration? How can a researcher be self-reflexive in their study of migration without falling into scientific relativism? How does the epistemic trust that researchers build up or have in their data, paradigms, and findings evolve in times of growing distrust towards academically produced knowledge on migration? And how do societal and academic conditions of migration-related knowledge production influence researchers’ motivations and their potential impact?

PLEASE NOTE: CERC Migration cannot provide letters of invitation for event attendees for our non-conference events such as this one.

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