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Introduction: Interdisciplinary Dialogues and Methodological Debates

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Over the last two decades, the volume of academic publications and news articles on migrations around the world has been remarkable. The acceleration of human mobilities is inherent to the current stage of the globalization process. In academic and political spheres, the topic has been the focus of numerous seminars and debates on the impacts, effects and consequences accompanying these international processes of accelerated migrations.

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    There are, of course, notable exceptions. See, for example, some recent publications that manage to achieve this exercise: Masseroni (2007); De Sipio et al. (2007); Ariza and Velasco (2012).

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    The methodological guidelines developed and circulated prior to each Seminar session made it possible for documents to be read before the session and organized around defined focuses of discussion, and facilitated the systematization of debates among researchers. In addition, because topic and problem-based minutes were taken of each Seminar session, the most relevant debates were systematized and the pending tasks and commitments made by each research team at the end of work sessions were identified. These minutes were taken by a person outside the Seminar group and were sent to participants in the days following the work sessions. These minutes constitute a valuable record of the discussions among participants.

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    This practical modality of interdisciplinary work is notably illustrated in the chapter in this book by Coubes, Velasco and Zlolniski.

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Rivera-Sánchez, L., Lozano-Ascencio, F. (2014). Introduction: Interdisciplinary Dialogues and Methodological Debates. In: Rivera-Sánchez, L., Lozano-Ascencio, F. (eds) The Practice of Research on Migration and Mobilities. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace(), vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02693-0_1

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