The rapidly developing field of visual methods and growing body of literature employing visual methodologies in the collection of data have contributed to the acknowledgement of the senses with a prevalence of sight in the research process. Yet, the ‘sensuous scholarship’ is not always considered in the systematic methodological process when visual methodologies are at stake. The aim of this paper is to problematise this stance in the context of the particular field of migration research. Our aim is to ‘de-essentialise the visual’ by presenting cases from our studies on immigrant communities in Norway, Turkey, Israel, and Portugal, and to exemplify how the embodied knowledge gained by both the researcher and research participants can contribute to research findings. We argue that sensuous experiences are part of researchers’ positionality and influence the intellectual outcomes of our work. We support this stance with four claims that relate to a researcher's physical presence in the field. We claim that (1) our work suffers an intellectual bias, (2) our geographical bias influences the interpretation of sensory experiences, (3) we tend to overstudy groups for which we have sympathy/empathy, and (4) the sensing scholar does physical labour. As for the perspective of research participants, we argue that the attention to their sensory experiences may bring knowledge on important aspects of their livelihoods and can give in-depth insight into micro, meso, and macro processes the respondents are entangled with. We claim that (5) senses influence the inclusion-exclusion dynamic, (6) senses are drivers of ethnic boundary maintenance, and (7) emplacement is mediated by senses.

视觉方法领域的快速发展和在数据收集中采用视觉方法的文献的不断增加，促进了对感官的认识，并在研究过程中普遍使用视觉。然而，当视觉方法论受到威胁时，系统方法论过程中并不总是考虑“感性学术”。本文的目的是在移民研究特定领域的背景下对这一立场提出问题。我们的目标是通过展示我们对挪威、土耳其、以色列和葡萄牙移民社区的研究案例来“去本质化视觉”，并举例说明研究人员和研究参与者获得的具体知识如何为研究结果做出贡献。我们认为，感官体验是研究人员立场的一部分，并影响我们工作的智力成果。我们通过与研究人员在该领域的实际存在相关的四项主张来支持这一立场。我们声称（1）我们的工作存在智力偏见，（2）我们的地理偏见影响了对感官体验的解释，（3）我们倾向于过度研究我们同情/同理心的群体，以及（4）感知学者确实体力劳动。至于研究参与者的观点，我们认为，对他们的感官体验的关注可能会带来他们生计重要方面的知识，并可以深入洞察受访者所卷入的微观、中观和宏观过程。我们声称（5）感官影响包容-排斥动态，