txt
07/07/25
 
Un/Commoning Migration
Over the last decades, one of the most discussed questions in social sciences has been what does decolonising knowledge production means and how we can achieve this. Following the overarching theme of (un)commoning, we believe that sharing a common planet should “utopiacally” mean abolishing migration studies since without borders, there will be no migration, only […]
more
txt
Souleymane DialloFriedemann Yi-NeumannKarim Zafer
29/10/25
Do we still need migration studies as we share a common planet?
Towards decolonising migration research through new vernaculars and theories
This report summarizes the insights gained from the DGSKA working group on migration meeting on 2 October 2025 in Cologne. Karim Zafer, one of the panel conveners, introduced the panel’s fundamental idea: using un/commoning as an approach to decolonize migration research, based on Nicholas de Genova’s utopian vision of a shared world without borders, which […]
more
txt
tita (Letizia Patriarca)
18/09/25
Multilingual as Decolonial Practice
Ethnographic Experiments of an Anthropologist between Brazil and Italy
(…) looking in, looking from more than one direction at the same time. La lengua is a symbol for speech, for breaking silence by talking, communicating, and writing. The split forked tongue of a serpent is my signal for communicating bilingually. (Anzaldúa, 2009: 211-212)     I am tita, which is difficult to pronounce for […]
more
txt
Friedemann Yi-NeumannKarim Zafer
18/09/25
Un/commoning Migration Studies and Decolonization as Distinction
When we, the speakers of the Working Group (AG) Migration, first read the DGSKA call for participation on the theme of ‘Un/commoning’, we felt that this concept could open up new directions in the debate on decolonizing Migration Studies from an anthropological perspective. In fact, it remains difficult for us to define precisely what is […]
more