Schinkel Willem
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Comp Migr Stud. 2018;6(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s40878-018-0095-1. Epub 2018 Sep 25.
This paper, written on invitation by the editors of Comparative Migration Studies, is intended as a provocation piece for invited commentators, and more broadly for those working with, or concerned about, the field of immigrant integration research. It outlines an argument put forward in Imagined Societies. A Critique of Immigrant Integration in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017) that 1) critiques immigrant integration research for bad (or lacking) conceptual work, specifically also in regard to the core sociological notion of 'society'; 2) argues that immigrant integration monitoring is a neocolonial form of knowledge intricately bound up with the contemporary workings of power, and 3) proposes social science moves beyond notions of 'immigrant integration' and 'society' towards an imagination against the grain that involves paying due attention to what happens when migrants move across social ecologies, without resorting to commonsense and/or policy categories in doing so.
本文是应《比较移民研究》编辑的邀请而撰写的，旨在为受邀评论员提供一篇具有启发性的文章，更广泛地说，是为从事移民融合研究领域工作或关注该领域的人士提供启发。它概述了《想象的社会：对西欧移民融合的批判》（剑桥大学出版社，2017年）中提出的一个观点，即：1）批判移民融合研究在概念工作方面做得不好（或缺乏概念工作），特别是在核心社会学概念“社会”方面；2）认为移民融合监测是一种与当代权力运作错综复杂地联系在一起的新殖民知识形式；3）提议社会科学超越“移民融合”和“社会”的概念，转向一种反传统的想象，即在不诉诸常识和/或政策范畴的情况下，适当关注移民跨越社会生态时所发生的情况。
