Methodological nationalism, the social sciences, and the study of migration: An essay in historical epistemology1

From: The International Migration Review | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The article examines methodological nationalism, a conceptual tendency that was central to the development of the social sciences and undermined more than a century of migration studies. Methodological nationalism is the naturalization of the global regime of nation-states by the social sciences. Transnational studies, we argue, including the study of transnational migration, is linked to periods of intense globalization such as the turn of the twenty-first century. Yet transnational studies have their own contradictions that may reintroduce methodological nationalism in other guises. In ...

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