Migrants and refugees face hostile publics and organized political interests, and contend with new and evolving forms of surveillance, deportability, and political violence. Researchers show that these political dynamics are fundamentally shaped by the politics of race and ethnicity. Yet, even as this work is increasingly abundant, it has not always been taken up by mainstream accounts of migration. In this article, we revisit scholarship on the politics of international migration, bringing together a collection of — sometimes disparate — research to explore how scholars can forge new lines of inquiry regarding the relationship between migration, race, ethnicity, and power. To do so, we evaluate three types of relationships at the core of migration politics: the relationship between migration and the state, the migration-related demands of domestic publics on the state, and how migrants interact and contend with the state. Across these relationships, we examine how ethnoracial hierarchies draw on, legitimize, and reinforce uneven distributions of political power, disparate deployments of state action and violence, and projects of nation- and state-building. Combining the intellectual prowess of distinct fields and approaches, we draw on productive convergences and tensions between existing and emerging frameworks and analytic starting points across disciplines to map future research trajectories in the multidisciplinary study of immigration, citizenship, asylum, and racial and ethnic politics. We conclude with a note on the politics of knowledge production–whereby some accounts of migration have been privileged over others–and point to important epistemological and methodological interventions for advancing research on the politics of migration.

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移民政治中的等级制度：重新审视移民国家的种族、民族和权力


移民和难民面临敌对的公众和有组织的政治利益，并与新的和不断演变的监视、驱逐和政治暴力形式作斗争。研究人员表明，这些政治动态从根本上是由种族和族裔政治塑造的。然而，尽管这项工作越来越丰富，但它并不总是被主流的移民理论所关注。在本文中，我们重新审视国际移民政治方面的学术研究，汇集了一系列（有时是不同的）研究，以探索学者如何就移民、种族、民族和权力之间的关系建立新的调查路线。为此，我们评估了移民政治核心的三类关系：移民与国家的关系、国内公众对国家的移民相关需求以及移民如何与国家互动和抗衡。在这些关系中，我们研究民族等级制度如何利用、合法化和加强政治权力的不均匀分配、国家行动和暴力的不同部署以及民族和国家建设项目。结合不同领域和方法的智力实力，我们利用现有和新兴框架之间富有成效的融合和紧张关系以及跨学科的分析起点，绘制移民、公民身份、庇护以及种族和民族政治等多学科研究的未来研究轨迹。最后，我们对知识生产的政治进行了注释——其中一些关于移民的叙述比其他的更具有特权——并指出了推进移民政治研究的重要认识论和方法论干预措施。