Speaking back to Theory: Africanist Migration Research beyond the Categories

On 15 – 18^th March 2023, a group of over 30 scholars will meet in Ghana for a Point Sud workshop that aims to critically reflect on the research topics, categories, theories and methodologies of Africanist migration research, foregrounding strategies to avoid reproducing societal and global power relations, and the need to challenge their underlying assumptions. The symposium seeks to address these parallel trends of restrictive public discourses on African migration and the calls for “decolonising”, or critically reassessing our analytical categories and assumptions. It thereby offers a space for critical reflection and commentary on the possibilities of power-analytical, decolonial and critical research on African mobilities.

The workshop is organised by the African Migration, Mobility and Displacement (AMMODI) Collaborative Research Group, in partnership with the Centre for Migration Studies Ghana, The Nordic Africa Institute and the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute. It is funded by the German Research Foundation.

Unfortunately, it is not open to the public. The programme is however available here.