Stephan Scheel|Funda Ustek?Spilda
The politics of expertise and ignorance in the field of migration management
University of Duisburg-Essen|London School of Economics and Political Science
paper shows field migration management features politics expertise migration enacted reality managed precisely quantified instance international organization migration maintains global migration flows interactive app interactive map suggests number people migrating country b exactly known point time enactment migration sits contrast widely acknowledged unreliability noncoherence migration statistics paper investigates tension negotiated production strategic ignorance mcgoey known limits quantifying migration drawing work ignorance studies highlight four practices producing strategic ignorance 1 omission significant gap recorded immigration emigration events 2 compression different accounts migration one world migration map 3 deflection knowledge specifities different methods production sites statistical data 4 usage metadata sanitizing statistical production process messy aspects analysis shows politics expertise field migration management intertwined politics ignorance