Roundtable: Researching on forced migrations from and on the Global South(s)

Abstract

This roundtable (organized by former Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer fellows) continues a dialogue started at IMIS (Osnabruck) in 2023 and aims a research-reflective contribution about practices, actors, artifacts and discourses of researching from and on the Global South(s): once we are aware that ‘the South’ as a singular category is given (and, for example, researching on forced migration is also to inquire about how that Global South(s) embodied by forced migrants and precarious mobilities in general encounter the North) the opportunity to explore our common differences is open.

Thus, we seek to discuss what the challenges, obstacles and opportunities of researching from and about the Global South(s) are. The core question is how the GSs Academia takes part, and under which conditions, in wider international debates, mainly dominated by large think tanks, including international organizations. In which extend our analytical categories are determined by a foreign ‘methodological nationalism’? How do we deal with that driven agenda? How do we build a mutual enriching dialogue? By presenting three different perspectives from the Philippines, Ethiopia and Argentina, we also seek to shed light on how that so-produced knowledge is ‘transferred’ and shapes both understanding, practice and finally, research on forced migration.

We welcome proposals from scholars, practitioners and activists to join the Roundtable

in-person or hybrid will be announced