New article: "Placing Migration: Towards More-Than-Relational Geographical Migration Studies"
Linn Axelsson, Senior Lecturer, Docent in Human Geography at Stockholm University, has together with Charlotta Hedberg, Professor of Human Geography at Umeå University published an article in the journal Population, Space and Place.
The paper critically engages with the spatial assumptions that underpin migration studies, highlighting a shift from an absolute view of space to a relational spatial perspective, influenced by transnational and translocal migration studies.
Using the case of Åsele municipality in northern Sweden, the article illustrates how a timeplace perspective can enrich the understanding of migration dynamics, and potentially reconcile tensions between essentialist and fluid worldviews in migration scholarship. Ultimately, it suggests that a plastic and contextual understanding of space might be the next logical step for migration studies.
Read the article in the journal Population, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 2, 2025: "Placing Migration: Towards More-Than-Relational Geographical Migration Studies"
Last updated: 2025-02-13
Source: Department of Human Geography