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The chapter links together a critical assessment of the role of militancy in migration studies, with the perspective suggested by the study of forced migration in the global context. My departure points will be some of the insights raised by the workshop on migration and militant research, hosted by the Politics department of Goldsmiths, University of London—which resulted in a special issue of the Postcolonial Studies journal entitled ‘Challenging the discipline of migration: Militant Research and Militant Investigation’—and the collective text ‘New Keywords: Migration and Borders’ published by Cultural Studies journal in early 2014 (Garelli and Tazzioli 2013a; Casas-Cortes et al. 2014). This attempt draws also on the opportunity I had of going through different context of knowledge production related to migration, encompassing the involvement in academic activities and the participation in two European research projects under the Seventh Framework programme and the experience in the sixth winter course on forced migration organised by the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (http://www.gemic.eu/, http://www.mignetproject.eu/ and http://www.mcrg.ac.in/WC2008/home.html).
Parts of this chapter develops material previously published in Grappi (2013).
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Grappi, G. (2022). On Research, the Politics of Migrations and the Materiality of the Global: Views Out of Place. In: Chowdhory, N., Banerjee, P. (eds) Gender, Identity and Migration in India. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5598-2_6
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