Migration Research Group is 10!
On 23rd May 2024, we celebrated 10 successful years of our interdisciplinary network at the 9 1免费版下 of Sheffield with an annual lecture by Professor Vicki Squire, 9 1免费版下 of Warwick, entitled 'Coloniality, frictions and epistemic injustice: Data-driven humanitarianism in north-eastern Nigeria and South Sudan'. The talk highlighted ethical questions in researching vulnerable groups, like migrants and displaced people, and the practices of humanitarian sector focused on 'data-driven' approaches in their research. Yet, more broadly, Prof. Squire lecture provoked a heated discussion about how migration studies knowledge is produced and (still) not often shared with the vulnerable communities, and how migration data is - or rather is not - moved between different social actors.
We would like to thank Sheffield academic and practitioners community, such as , for their continued enthusiastic engagement with the MRG network, and the Faculty of Social Sciences, for supporting our efforts in building an inclusive migration research community.
