ABSTRACT

This special issue focusses on how migration and diversity researchers experience and perform their role as academic experts in politicised public debates about migration and diversity. In a world wherein experts are increasingly demanded for policy development and wherein migration as well as ethnic, racial and religious diversity are among the themes dividing voters the most, migration and diversity researchers find themselves in a challenging position. How do they view their obligation to participate in public debate and how does their identities as researchers relate to such participation? This special issue will discuss the impact and implications of these challenges in the Scandinavian context, although the theme of researchers’ roles in politicised public debate is of a broader relevance both to other geographical regions and to other controversial research fields. Debates on public sociology, on the science/media interface, and on present challenges to academic expertise more generally, are central to the discussion.

摘要

本期特刊关注移民和多样性研究人员如何在有关移民和多样性的政治化公开辩论中体验和发挥学术专家的作用。在一个政策制定方面越来越需要专家并且移民以及族裔、种族和宗教多样性是最容易分裂选民的主题的世界中，移民和多样性研究人员发现自己处于一个具有挑战性的位置。他们如何看待他们参与公共辩论的义务以及他们作为研究人员的身份与这种参与有何关系？本期特刊将讨论这些挑战在斯堪的纳维亚语境中的影响和意义，尽管研究人员在政治化公共辩论中的角色这一主题与其他地理区域和其他有争议的研究领域都具有更广泛的相关性。关于公共社会学、科学/媒体界面以及更普遍的学术专业知识的当前挑战的辩论是讨论的核心。