Co-Creating Migration Knowledge: Multimodal, Arts-Based and Reflexive Approaches

This Special Issue examines how knowledge about migration is collaboratively produced, interpreted and circulated through multimodal, arts-based and reflexive research practices. Bringing together contributions from sociolinguistics, ethnography, migration studies, visual practice and critical border studies, it moves beyond the representation of migrants towards a co-creative understanding of knowledge production. The contributions explore how linguistic, visual, embodied, spatial and material resources participate in research encounters and how collaborative methodologies reshape questions of authorship, participation, visibility and interpretive authority. Particular attention is given to the ethical and epistemological implications of working with people on the move, including issues of structural vulnerability, institutional accountability and the circulation of research outputs. Taken together, the Special Issue advances co-creation not as a fixed methodological model, but as an epistemological orientation for rethinking the production of migration knowledge across diverse empirical and institutional contexts.