I have worked with migrants on the research and emergency welfare side of the spectrum for a decade plus in the Gulf and SE Asia and when I read migration studies literature, I see theorizing which hardly has any representative voices. A literature gap certainly there.

And the removal of the migrant as category separates from the mainstream where these migrants care for the families while parents earn, and build your cities is perpetuation of racial biases, and needs decolonizing. Can it be done with scholars who are western or white or both, while they have the confidence of parachuting in and harvesting data is another question altogether.