[ecrea] Special Issue: E-Diasporas – Living Digitally

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Special Issue: E-Diasporas – Living Digitally

*SUBMISSION DUE DATE: *1 September 2015

*PUBLICATION: *International Journal of E-Politics

*OBJECTIVE OF THE THEMED ISSUE:*

With the growth of international(im)migration and work through digital
space across time zones and in the last decade, the Internet and related
wireless and mobile technologies have become crucial for members of
various diasporic communities seeking to connect with both their
countries of origin and their host nations. Connections are established
not only through social media and email, but also through money
transfers, philanthropy and business, gaming and related virtual
environments.For instance Internet use facilitates information gathering
efforts of (im)migrants searching for potential host countries, assist
(im)migrants’ acculturation practices after migration, and advance the
socio-economic development of diasporic subjects and those they may have
left behind. In addition, we also have new forms of digital diaspora
that occur through offshore labor forces that have their bodies in their
“home” nations but work in time zones and relational socio-financial and
organizational spaces that exist “in diaspora.”

The co-editors of this special issue aims to understand the rhizomatic
nature of migrant communities in a twenty-first century climate where
the increasing use of online spaces influences the creation of diaspora
politics, identity formation (or reclamation in the new nation), and the
conception of new meanings of the terms ‘home’ and ‘homeland.’Thus, this
issue endeavors to expand ongoing conversations about dispersed global
communities and the ways they relate with communications and information
technologies. The International Journal of E-Politics is
interdisciplinary so we welcome any disciplinary, theoretical or
methodological approach.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

●Emerging or new definitions of ‘e-diasporas’

●Mobile money, financial investments, debt and e-diasporas

●The meaning of ‘home’ for dispersed populations

●The differences between ‘digital diasporas’ and ‘e-diasporas’

●Post-colonial and subaltern ‘e-diasporas’ (Dalit, Roma, etc.)

●Online communities for leisure or play (film viewing and discussions in
online spaces, gaming, creating hobby guilds, etc.)

●Political participation in ‘e-diasporas’

●The use of online spaces to create (social and political) communities
in the host nation

●Identity construction and the Internet

●Usage of social media to ‘click and connect’ with ‘home’

*SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:*

Researchers from any field of enquiry that deals with the online
politics of food broadly defined are invited to submit papers for this
themed issue. All submissions are due by*/September 1, 2015./*

*All queries to*

Radhika Gajjala, (radhik /at/ bgsu.edu)

Tori Arthur, (tarthur /at/ bgsu.edu)

**

*Full papers to be submitted electronically,*

http://www.igi-global.com/submission/manuscripts/

Editors-in-Chief:

Celia Romm Livermore, School of Business Administration, Wayne State
University, Detroit, USA

Yasmin Ibrahim, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary,
University of London.

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

PUBLISHER:

The International Journal of E-Politics is published by IGI Global
(formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science
Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information
Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the
publisher, please visit<http://www.igi-global.com>www.igi-global.com
<http://www.igi-global.com>.


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