Zapata Barrero, Ricard2024-05-092024-05-092020Zapata-Barrero R. Editorial: “Mediterranean thinking” for mapping a Mediterranean migration research agenda. Comp Migr Stud. 2020 Feb 10;8:6. DOI: 10.1186/s40878-019-0170-22214-594Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/60089The Mediterranean is paradoxically, rarely considered a category of analysis in most Mediterranean migration research. If it were to be taken as a geographical, regional and geo-political area, it could provide migration studies a particular framework of comparison, a much needed structure for the dispersed research currently being carried out. After drawing the main contours of “Mediterranean thinking” in migration studies and defending a postcolonial account against Eurocentric views, I review the main theoretical frameworks for formulating such criticisms. Additionally, I propose how in the coming years we may be able to further develop this Med-Thinking in migration studies. A base from which a Mediterranean migration research agenda could be built with “multiple voices” contributing to Mediterranean regional building. Finally, I place this excursus as main background of the different contributions of this Special Issue.application/pdfengThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0170-2MigrationMediterraneanMigration research agendaRegionalismPost-colonialismEuro-centrisminfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess