To explore this question, we turn to Icaza & Vazquez’s (2018) framework, developed to understand how, and to what extent, the University of Amsterdam has been “… enforcing Western epistemologies and subjectivities as the norm” (p.115). Operationalizing the three elements of this framework, namely, 1) pedagogies of positionality, 2) relationality, and 3) transition, participants will examine how migration serves not only as a research topic but as a mechanism of inclusion and exclusion within the university.

In doing so, participants are provided the tools to address the “decolonial deficit” of the university. By adopting a decolonial lens, the workshop does not intend to offer a solution or reconciliation to the current decolonial deficit. Rather, apply an ethics of incommensurability, which acknowledges that decolonial futures and frameworks can exist even with the absence of answers to questions of reconciliation and reparations (Tuck & Yang, 2012).

Thus, the core objectives of this workshop are as follows:

• Applying decoloniality to the university vis-à-vis the Icaza & Vazquez framework,
• Identifying how research practices around migration reproduce or resist colonial hierarchies,
• Exercising the co-production of knowledge through dialogue and mutual engagement.

The workshop is open to all researchers, with a particular focus on early-career researchers and students.