New Issue of Migration and Society Published: Global and Intersecting Solidarities

The issue opens with an Editorial by Professor Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Professor Berg and Dr Thieme titled ‘Global and Intersecting Solidarities’, followed by Professor Fiddian-Qasmiyeh’s ‘A Manifesto for Bread and Roses’. It shows the journal’s ongoing commitment to critically “tend[ing] to the processes and effects of displacement, evictions, and expulsions experienced by individuals and communities rendered vulnerable by situated and global forces.”  

As the editors write:  

“As we continue to contemplate what solidarity and humanitarianism, and, indeed, research, mean today and for the future, this issue builds on previous issues of Migration and Society to explore the past, present, and future of critical humanitarianisms and the significance of postcolonial and decolonial approaches to the study of (forced) migration.” 

As well as four articles in ‘General, People and Places’, and ‘Reflections’, and a series of poems and critical reflections on poetry and displacement in ‘Creative Encounters’, the issue includes two special themed sections. Curated by a team of guest editors, ‘Critical Humanitarianisms: Neoliberal Temporalities and Expertise in Migration Governance’ and ‘Colonialism, Postcoloniality and the Study of Forced Migration’ appear alongside reviews of recent books on migration and mobility around the world. 

In Professor Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Professor Berg and Dr Thieme’s words:  

“It is our collective hope that Migration and Society will continue to evolve as a platform for critical scholarship and for careful engagement with the politics of knowledge production as it pertains to migration and society.  

“We continue to hope that doing so will contribute to the archive that refuses to normalise ongoing injustices and struggles associated with displacement and migration but also persists in holding space for vital global and intersecting solidarities that animate hopeful pathways.” 

More information

• Read the latest issue of Migration and Society 
• Visit Professor Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh's Academic Staff Profile 
• See Dr Tatiana Thieme’s Academic Staff Profile 
• Go to Professor Mette L. Berg’s Academic Staff Profile