ABSTRACT
This paper is an exploration of forced migration studies seen from the lens of decolonial theory. It invites the reader to consider shifting the “geographies of reason” habitually marking the field. Starting with a foundational critique of moralism and privilege, marking canonized understandings of migration, precarity, displacement, and dispossession. It speaks to the complexity of an existential political commitment to redefining forced migration not from the core/recipient states and societies but from borderlands, with particular reference to South Asia. It thus contributes to a long and rich – yet also troubled and deeply contested – conversation between postcolonial studies and forced migration studies.
