Abstract
ABSTRACT Geographers and other immigration scholars must often navigate complex institutional landscapes to conduct migrant research, as a variety of organizations, entities, and agencies operate within immigrant-adjacent contexts. Such organizations can function as partners to facilitate a project, as gatekeepers who mediate access to immigrant communities and data sets, or as stakeholders who may influence project goals. To navigate these institutional contexts, geographers must make decisions with important logistical and epistemological implications for both project design and research contributions, shaping the knowledge production possible in these contexts. This article outlines relevant trends in the literature on the institutionalization and bureaucratization of immigration, connects these insights to feminist geographic scholarship on fieldwork and navigating immigrant institutions, and serves as an introduction to this special issue of the Geographical Review.
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