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Rhodes Must Fall represented a critical moment in our thinking about the ongoing legacy and living traces of the colonial past in the present. The campaign that started in South Africa in 2015, calling for the removal of colonial statues from public spaces, spread across the world and triggered global awareness about the politics of representation. It also sparked a critical conversation about knowledge production, leading to calls to decolonize the university and rethink the ways we learn and teach. Amidst this growing awareness, Migration Studies and Colonialism, by Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner, offers a timely contribution to our understanding of both the legacy of colonial histories on contemporary migrations and the scholarly field of migration studies. Migration studies as a ‘field’ became institutionalized after the Second World War. This process was driven by the exigencies of States and the international community to monitor the movement of people at a time of decolonization, globalization, and neoliberal capitalism. Migration management as a project of national and international policy is furthermore interconnected to migration studies as a project of university institutions. For instance, migration scholars, mostly located in institutions in Europe and North America, tend to reproduce State concepts such as integration, sovereignty, borders, and the migrant versus citizen divide.
Giorgia Doná (Wed,) studied this question.