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Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology

Wimmer, Andreas, Schiller, Nina Glick·2003·International Migration Review
DOI 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2003.tb00151.x
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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 studying migration, the challenge is to avoid both extreme fluidism and the bounds of nationalist thought.

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Metadata

Authors
Wimmer, A., & Schiller, N. G.
Venue
International Migration Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2003-09
Volume
37
Issue
3
Pages
576-610
ISSN
  • 0197-9183 (ISSN-L)
  • 1747-7379
DOI
10.1111/j.1747-7379.2003.tb00151.x
OpenAlex
W2131712395
Cited by
1,629
References
127
FWCI
30.41
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)

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