ABSTRACT
This chapter is a dialogue between two researchers, in Italy and Ireland, reflecting on their experiences as biographical researchers concerned with migration. It explores the highly charged, unstable, and fuzzy category of ‘the migrant’ through auto/biographical reflections on their families’ experience of migration and on history, as well as what they have learned about migration through teaching and research. Research on migration, they argue, calls for care and methodological reflexivity. The authors also make the case that doing research on migration requires engaging with radical and post-colonial theory in order to understand discrimination, oppression, and racism.
