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From interculturalism to inter-recognition: towards an ethico-onto-epistemological approach in migration research.
- Source :
- Journal of Multicultural Discourses; Mar2019, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p46-60, 15p, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Migration policies and social science research tend to describe and stratify migrants according to bureaucratic and legal categories, which prevent the understanding of the complexity of migration as a process of recognition. Having in mind the migration of healthcare professionals to a semi-peripheral country like Portugal, this paper critically debates 'multi-inter-cultural discourses' and the asymmetric power relations it envisions. The case study under analysis reveals the production of different types of migrants' disqualification ('overstayers and irregulars', 'non-native', 'overqualified', 'underemployed' and 'non-human beings') and the invisibilities that it promotes (socio-institutional, discursive, educational, professional, alterity). This article is influenced by the recognition framework as a critical approach and the decolonial proposal of an 'Ecology of Recognitions' [Santos, B.S. 2014. Epistemologies of the South: Justice against epistemicide. London: Paradigm Publishers]. In my view, this dialogic and comprehensive expression represents a turning point concerning the replacement of 'culture' as the core domain to embrace the socio-political construction of 'difference'. A new framework for the 'ethico-onto-epistemology' of migration studies is therefore suggested: an inter-recognition approach. This could be an added value for the understanding of the wastage of human diversity as a process of loss of human dignity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17447143
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Multicultural Discourses
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 136689259
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2019.1566343