Qualitative-archival research on migration is not just preservation

Thanks to the reviewer's careful reading, the open letter ‘Qualitative-archival research on migration is not just preservation’ has not only been enriched with bibliographic references, but has gained the clarity necessary to communicate the results of a wide-ranging action research to a broad audience beyond academia.
In addition to a better flow of discourse given by having followed the reviewer's instructions, some fundamental concepts have been added: firstly, the importance of ethical aspects not only in the production but also in the fruition of research, in the awareness that when research is conducted with sensitivity and guided by ethics, it becomes a process with benefits for both participants and researchers. The introduction of a concept such as ‘epistemic justice’ resonates with the whole H2020 ITHACA project, which in its entirety focused on migrants as research subjects, never considered as research objects.
The necessity of adopting a critical spirit when dealing with the sources of qualitative data was also argued: depending on the culture, data - of whatever nature they are (textual, visual, audio) - must be recognised as complex, as they can be interpreted differently by different cultures and migrants’ background.
To make the narrative flow more effectively and give a clearer understanding of the variety of voices who co-created this Open Letter, we included more quotations from the different stakeholders engaged in the Policy Council, i.e. in the meetings where the results were co-created together with the project stakeholders. It is their diversity and the different countries where they live and work that distinguish our findings from other top-down recommendations.
Finally, we restructured the conclusion along the four key readings of ‘contextualisation’, ‘reflexivity’, ‘interdisciplinarity’, and ‘critical action’. Now their use seems closer.