Conclusions

Abstract

This chapter summarizes key themes and presents some final thoughts. This book sought to address the question on the importance of embodied research by first highlighting the theoretical underpinnings of embodiment, and second by providing examples of embodied research which made use of creative and participatory approaches with migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking women in London. Epistemologies such as post-phenomenology, sensory, and affective approaches concur that the body is material, socially constructed and the social relations it produces are generative and agentic. By looking at the intellectual tradition where embodiment is situated, this book interrogates the process of doing embodied research with migrant women in London.