Ecology

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Power (physics)

Anthropology

Gender studies

Physics

Sovereignty

Colonialism

Biology

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Decolonization

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Quantum mechanics

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Human rights

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In Migration studies and colonialism, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner make a powerful case for rethinking migration under the lens of colonialism and its enduring legacies. The authors draw from a diverse range of postcolonial and decolonial scholarship, including Third World approaches to international law, indigenous studies and queer-of-colour critiques, to discuss an equally diverse array of themes that are central to migration studies, such as human rights, development, race, sovereignty, asylum policies, border security and gender/sexuality. Mayblin and Turner undertake this ambitious endeavour in a self-reflexive manner, carefully articulating the position that attempts to decolonize the social sciences are both crucial and partial. They are crucial to the extent that knowledge production has been central in legitimizing colonial projects and racial theories and continues to uphold colonial power relations to the present day. And they are partial to the extent that cultural decolonization risks becoming yet another move...

Migration studies and colonialism