Abstract

Migration categories are powerful in shaping who migrates, how and with what rights. This paper outlines the who, why, how, where and when of current categorization and its limits. It then suggests four practices that can reshape migration categories: democratizing and decolonizing them by taking these categories beyond the countries of the global North; stretching their spatio-temporal referents; entangling them with other categorisations based on race and gender and how they are practiced so that their theoretical foundations, disciplinary insights and methodologies can be multiplied; and transversing them to see other processes and methods that cut across migrant categories.

摘要

迁移类别在确定谁进行迁移，如何迁移以及获得何种权利方面具有强大的作用。本文概述了当前分类的对象，原因，方式，地点和时间及其局限性。然后，它提出了可以重塑移民类别的四种做法：通过使这些类别超越全球北部国家，使它们民主化和非殖民化；扩展其时空参照物；使他们与基于种族和性别以及如何实践的其他分类相结合，从而可以扩大其理论基础，学科见解和方法论；然后遍历他们以了解跨移民类别的其他流程和方法。