ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on mobile knowledges as a particular form of resistance to the static concept of the nation-state. In this chapter I first conceptualize the epistemological role of mobility for knowledge production and then I recount the dominant knowledges of migrants and refugees that are perpetuated by media and politicians, seeing migrants as a source of crises or flows, that need to be managed, as vulnerable objects that need to be helped, as a security threat or as saviours in times of demographic crisis. These knowledges are then juxtaposed with mobile knowledges generated by the people on the move, in particular, with new ways law is being understood, researched, and embodied by persons on the move and directly affected by it. In the last part of the chapter, I develop a more comprehensive understanding of movement and mobility as the method of studying and resisting law and outline methodological and ethical concerns for studying such knowledges.
