• First Language: Turkish

  • Subjects:  Women’s Studies

  • Journal Section: Research Article

  • Authors: Emel COŞKUN>
    DÜZCE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
    0000-0002-9562-7775

    Özge SARIALİOĞLU  
    DÜZCE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
    0000-0001-5072-0530

    Cemile Gizem DİNÇER  
    ORTA DOĞU TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
    0000-0003-2220-6520

  • Dates: 1 June 2020

International migration studies have been a gradually politicized research field that is affected by national and international migration policy discourses. Given its financially co-dependent relation to state-centered policies, migration studies can be instrumentalized in the efforts of nation-states to “prevent” migration by legitimizing the “migration management” discourse. The politicized structure of migration studies affects the whole research design methodologically and ethically from the theoretical approach to data collection methods. While the number of research focusing on migrant
women has increased enormously, due to the inadequately explained methods they can have serious problems both in terms of the production of scientific knowledge and ethics. In this respect, criticizing the mainstream research methodologies and problematizing the perspective of unequal power relations in the research processes, feminist methodology can provide vital grounds for questioning in migration studies.

Migration Studies, Methodology, Ethics, Gender, Feminist Methodology

Emel COŞKUN>
DÜZCE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
0000-0002-9562-7775

Özge SARIALİOĞLU  
DÜZCE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
0000-0001-5072-0530

Cemile Gizem DİNÇER  
ORTA DOĞU TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
0000-0003-2220-6520