Decolonizing 'migration Studies' Facing the Rise of Nationalism in Europe: An Epistemological Conceptualization.

Decolonization has become an increasingly emergent framework addressing the complex mechanism of coloniality of knowledge in migration studies. The aim of decolonizing migration studies from mainstream discourse has a significant role in defining policies and politics which shows the complex relationship between politics and academia. While migration studies are mainly Eurocentric, the necessity of decolonizing this subject and shifting the narrative into a mobility perspective as a global right to circulation is increasingly prominent.

This paper mainly seeks to outline some implications of concepts from postcolonial and decolonial theory for research on migration policies and politics. It is linked primarily to the use of postcolonial concepts in migration studies and will highlight the implication of migration in the political sphere as a colonial heritage. In the first part, I aim to discuss the ongoing reproduction of colonial research of “outsiders' ', that goes hand in hand with the rise of nationalism in several European countries.
Radical nationalists build their political speeches around ‘migration’ issues. By doing so, nationalists gain ground based on ironed studies of the so-called economic and development problems caused by ‘migration’ flows such as employment rates. Researchers and academics challenging colonial legacies in mobility research's as Epistemic Violence (Spivak, 1988) play their pioneering role in addressing the real questions and propose the adequate alternative. The second part will primarily discuss the calls to epistemic disobedience (Mignolo, 2009) to face the genealogy of multifaceted global inequality.
However, decolonial frameworks are well suited to reflect ‘European migration policies’ complex colonial legacy (Rodriguez, 2018).
The current hegemonic studies are in the service of capitalism and its main catalist the market economy to whom comes the labor force division. That is to say to serve capitalist powers on behalf of the “superior” race.