Fresnoza-Flot Asuncion
Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC), Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Universite libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, B-1050, Belgium.
Open Res Eur. 2024 Feb 13;3:142. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.16483.2. eCollection 2023.
The question of why some people (re)migrate while others choose to stay remains one of the important preoccupations in migration studies. It underlines the need to further conceptualise transnational migration to identify the drivers behind individuals' aspiration or intention to (re)migrate or stay where they are. Drawing from several migration theories and perspectives in various disciplines, this paper proposes the situated framework of "humanising research on migration decision-making", that is, highlighting its human aspects. This scholarly enterprise is critically important as mainstream migration theories put more emphasis on individuals' rationality and some life dimensions, thereby overlooking other human aspects of migration and stasis. Viewing individuals as persons, this framework offers three ways to humanise the analysis: thick contextualisation, life dimensions-focused analysis, and time-situated inquiry. It also calls for the engendering of the analysis and decolonising the methodologies adopted in the study of (non-)migration decision-making.
为何有些人选择（再次）移民而另一些人则选择留下来，这一问题仍是移民研究中的重要关注点之一。这凸显了进一步对跨国移民进行概念化的必要性，以便确定个人（再次）移民或留在原地的愿望或意图背后的驱动因素。本文借鉴多个学科的几种移民理论和观点，提出了“移民决策人性化研究”的情境框架，即突出其人文层面。这项学术工作至关重要，因为主流移民理论更强调个人理性和某些生活维度，从而忽视了移民和定居的其他人文层面。该框架将个人视为人，提供了三种使分析人性化的方法：深入情境化、聚焦生活维度的分析和基于时间情境的探究。它还呼吁在对（非）移民决策的研究中进行性别化分析并使所采用的方法去殖民化。
