In this piece, the PolMig research team challenges Western centric migration theories by turning to Afrocentrism as a decolonial way of knowing. Against rising border securitisation and anti migrant politics, they expose how colonial borders and racialised hierarchies still shape mobility, citizenship and belonging. By centring African worldviews, they argue that migration emerges not as a crisis to control but rather as a deeply-rooted social process. The discussion traces enduring colonial legacies, and introduces an Afrotheoretical focus as a conceptual and methodological lens for rethinking migration, agency and political life in Africa.
