Towards a Critique of Methodological Presentism in Migration Research

This book investigates the benefits of integrating history, sociology, and ethnography to better understand migration and its consequences, using Denmark’s history of migration as a case study. Although migration research is an interdisciplinary field, much research on migration still occurs in disciplinary containers. The field is not least affected by a methodological presentism : a scholarly and societal tendency to understand social phenomena within a limited contemporary framework, neglecti