The DERM network (Decolonizing Education and Research on Migration) connects scholars working in the field of migration studies across the world. By engaging with the urgent quest for decolonizing knowledge (re)production in different post/neo-colonial spaces, DERM focuses on three interconnected tasks: (1) thinking and developing decolonizing pedagogies for teaching about mobility/migration; (2) thinking and developing decolonizing methodologies for researching mobility/migration; and (3) thinking and developing techniques for translating decolonizing knowledge on mobility/migration to non-academic actors with the scope of producing societal and policy impact.

Through a very horizontal governance system, DERM includes scholars with diverse disciplinary perspectives and multiple expertise on migration and the governance of it, within a multitude of geographical, cultural, social and economic contexts. Together we develop a range of activities and deliverables, such as online and in person meetings, conference presentations, doctoral/summer schools, academic and non-academic publications, reading clubs, international teaching/pedagogical and research exchanges, and funding applications.