Migration from a gender-critical, postcolonial and interdisciplinary perspective

Abstract

The article introduces the special issue’s subject-matter. The intention of this volume is to overcome a number of major omissions and curtailed interests in the field of migration studies – deemphasizing gender and sexuality, ignoring the “intersectional” interplay of gender with other dimensions of inequality in migration societies, Eurocentric preoccupation, non-consideration of the agency of migrants and caught up in methodological nationalism. The authors come from different institutional contexts and academic disciplines and address quite different questions. However, all the contributions share a methodologically transnational and postcolonial-feminist analytical perspective, the perception of migrants as subjects provided with agency and a critical attitude towards the prevailing policies with regard to migrants and refugees in Europe.