Book Launch: Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands

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Book Launch | Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands: Reflections, Challenges, Pathways, edited by Andonis Piperoglou and Francesco Ricatti

Join us at the Greek Centre on Londsdale Street for the Melbourne launch of Migration on Indigenous Lands: Reflections, Challenges, Pathways, edited by Dr. Andonis Piperoglou and Associate Professor Francesco Ricatti.

The volume provides an interdisciplinary assessment of research about migration on Indigenous lands and will be launched by Professor Tony Birch, Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.

Via an assortment of critical reflections from some of Australia’s leading researchers on migration, it identifies tensions between colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty as an increasingly salient topic of analysis within migration research. The volume poses challenges to migration research that takes place on Indigenous lands and present critical reflections on the methodological and theoretical issues at play when studying migration in settler colonial Australia. It also outlines potential pathways for ethical migration research agendas that genuinely engage with Indigenous knowledges and scholarship.

Contributors to the volume include, Debbie Bargallie, Zac Roberts, Marlene Scicluna, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Zora Simic, Faisal Al-Asaad, Joseph Lo Bianco, Matteo Dutto, Maria Elena Indelicato, Daphne Arapakis, Sukhmani Khorana, Chenai Mupotsa-Russell, Matthew Klugman and Christopher Sonn.

The volume is published under Springer’s IMESCOE’s (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe) research series. IMISCOE is the largest research network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world. Since publication in December 2025, the volume has been downloaded 24,000 times.

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