Looking for Women in the Field: Epistemic Ignorance and the Process of Othering

In this article, I ask how my challenges in the field can shed light on dynamics that contribute to excluding women as research participants (climate) migration studies, and investigate relationship between absence of migrants literature accessing field. Multiple studies have established – like men migrate, consequently called for greater inclusion into international labour literature. Nevertheless, still often disappear within Through an investigation find is because are Othered academia. build insight may also exclude from other subfields research, more specifically ‘climate migration’. Next, reflect unexpected information about coastal Bangladesh. Men village, who were gatekeepers access women, not immediately willing talk women’s mobility. Rather, they tended distance themselves knowing these effectively turning migrant ‘Other’. Bringing together insights Othering both academia field, show upholding systems epistemic ignorance. argue awareness such ignorance be utilized a tool fieldwork by lending sensitivity whom we include knowers our research.