‘Before anything else, I am a person’. Listening to the Epistemological Standpoints of Im/migrant Youth

Feminists of colour have attuned us to the epistemologies arising from the social, cultural and structural ‘standpoints’ of marginalised communities. Building on this insight, this paper attends to how the racialising regimes of state power targeting migrant youth of colour render their bodies as central sites for generating new knowledge. Drawing on ethnographic research with im/migrants youth in Catalonia, Spain, and in Denmark, this paper explores what the ‘epistemological standpoints of migrant youth’—whose bodies must daily endure racialising public surveillance and bear the burden of collective worries about nations’ futures—can teach us about knowledge-making and about opportunities therein for resistance and transformation.