ABSTRACT

What makes a migration expert? Taking Bourdieu’s understanding of the academic field as its point of departure, this article outlines the field of migration research in Denmark. Migration and integration are heavily politicised topics in Denmark as in many other countries. The migration field has also been influenced by this politicisation. The migration research field is an open field which means that academic knowledge producers are not the only actors within this field. Neither are they necessarily the ones recognised the most. The article outlines different types of experts which in different ways signal a change of hierarchies within the field. Not the only one but the dominating ones. The last years we have seen a research field characterised by different academic positions but also an expansion of the field with an increased importance given to boundary organisations. The article discusses what the implications for doing migration research might be.

摘要

是什么造就了迁移专家？本文以布迪厄对学术领域的理解为出发点，概述了丹麦的移民研究领域。与许多其他国家一样，移民和融合在丹麦是高度政治化的话题。移民领域也受到了这种政治化的影响。迁移研究领域是一个开放领域，这意味着学术知识生产者不是该领域的唯一参与者。他们也不一定是最受认可的人。文章概述了不同类型的专家，它们以不同的方式表明该领域内的等级制度发生了变化。不是唯一的，而是占主导地位的。在过去的几年里，我们看到了一个以不同学术职位为特征的研究领域，但随着对边界组织的重视，该领域也在扩大。本文讨论了进行迁移研究的意义。