ABSTRACT
In this chapter I argue for a decolonizing methodologies approach for immigration research. This is a multivocal, cross-cultural, participatory mode of research that allows both researchers and the participants to carefully examine the normative issues that underlie all research questions. I begin this discussion by arguing for the relevance of moral-ethical considerations in immigration research and in debates over immigration policy and theory. In the latter part of the chapter, I use these moral-ethical considerations to provide a new perspective on immigration research and immigration policy debates, and introduce a decolonizing methodologies approach, as an alternative way of engaging these issues.
