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Stierl, Maurice (2022) Do no harm? The impact of policy on migration scholarship. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40 (5). pp. 1083-1102. doi:10.1177/2399654420965567 ISSN 2399-6544.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420965567
Abstract
The mass migrations of 2015 were not merely a watershed moment for ‘EUrope’ but also for the scholarly study of migration to EUrope. With academic expertise and insights becoming much sought-after in the media and political discourse, migration scholarship has gained in unknown popularity over recent years. This current ‘migration knowledge hype’ has particularly benefited scholarship that claims to be of relevance for EUropean policymakers in finding responses to ‘migratory pressures’. This article critically interrogates the increasing intimacy between the worlds of migration scholarship and migration policy and seeks to unpack how the quest for policy-relevance has shaped the process of research itself. The impact of policy on migration research can be discerned when policy categories, assumptions, and needs constitute the bases and (conceptual) frames of research that seeks to be legible to policymakers. However, with EUropean migration policies causing devastation and undeniably harmful effects on migrant lives, what is the responsibility of researchers for the knowledge they produce and disseminate? Should the ‘do no harm’ principle prevalent in the migration discipline be expanded to also include the potentially harmful consequences resulting from research made relevant to migration policymakers? This article makes the case for an engaged scholarship that does not shy away from intervening in the contested field of migration with the intention not to fix but to amplify the epistemic and other crises of the EUropean border regime.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | European Union countries -- Emigration and immigration, European Union countries -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space | ||||||||
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2399-6544 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | August 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 40 | ||||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1083-1102 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/2399654420965567 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 September 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 September 2020 | ||||||||
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