Abstract
Reflexive research-policy dialogues can provide a way to help actors to identify, understand and grasp the complexities of migration and diversity governance. Rather than reducing or simplifying complexity in a way that may lead to alienation, reflexivity provides the type of complex approach that complex problems such as migration and diversity usually require.
When configured as ‘critical dialogues’, research-policy relations can contribute to reflexive governance. This make demands, not only of policy actors, but also of researchers. As observed in earlier chapters, knowledge fragmentation, selective coproduction of knowledge and a narrow preoccupation with specific groups, have often prevented migration research from contributing to mainstreaming and averting alienation. However, theory-building and systematic knowledge accumulation could provide a counter strategy to problem alienation, as academic independence can prevent political alienation, academic mainstreaming can prevent social alienation, and knowledge coproduction in poly-centric settings can prevent institutional alienation.
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Scholten, P. (2020). Research, Reflexivity and the Practice of Migration and Diversity Governance. In: Mainstreaming versus Alienation . Global Diversities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42238-7_8
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