[ecrea] CFP: Refugee Socialities for journal Popular Communication

*CALL FOR PAPERS: “Refugee Socialities and the Media”*

*A Special Issue for the journal /Popular Communication/*

*Issue Editors: Jonathan Corpus Ong (U of Massachusetts) and Maria 
Rovisco (U of Leicester)*

This special issue explores the ways in which diverse media and artistic 
genres cultivate social relationships with and among refugees and 
internally displaced populations. Building on political-economic studies 
of forced migration and critiques of humanitarian securitization in the 
European ‘refugee crisis’ response, this collection draws attention to 
the role of media and popular communication in shaping the affective 
dimension of the refugee experience and citizen response. While this 
collection engages with the dominant discourses that amalgamate fears 
about diverse migrant communities in Europe and North America, it 
invites deeper reflection on the social arrangements and emotional 
expressions afforded by a broader range of: popular communication 
genres, technological interventions, artistic spaces, and everyday media 
practices. The theme ‘Refugee Socialities and the Media’ thus redirects 
focus onto how popular media forms and mediated interactions materialize 
and visualize processes of inclusion and exclusion and create 
possibilities for coping and healing for refugees.

The special issue invites submissions engaging with a broad range of 
mediated socialities–from hospitality to conviviality to hostility–that 
are experienced by refugees in global context. It also adopts a broad 
notion of refugee and asylum-seeker; we thus aim to consider 
environmental refugees such as those in the Caribbean, economic refugees 
such as those in Hong Kong, and political refugees such as the Rohingya 
in Myanmar.

We welcome papers that address areas including but not limited to:

·Everyday media practices among refugees

·Imaginaries of refugees in popular culture and their creative interruptions

·Artistic, entertainment and technological interventions in the 
borderlands (i.e., refugee camps)

·Media events, sports rituals, fandoms in contexts of displacement

·Affective dimension of digital humanitarianism, volunteerism, and 
fundraising for refugees

·Celebrities, influencers, and hashtag communities in the refugee response

·Participatory media projects with refugees

·Inter-migrant interactions, perceptions, and organizations

·Media and (open-)home-making and emergent forms of hospitality

·Mobile and geolocating media including refugee apps and dating apps in 
processes of resettlement and acculturation

*Deadlines:*

·January 15, 2018: Extended abstracts due (500-800 words)

·January 30: Decisions announced

·April 15: Papers due (6000 words)

*The editors are open to discuss proposals and welcome inquiries at 
(jcong /at/ umass.edu) <mailto:(jcong /at/ umass.edu)> (Jonathan) or 
(mr268 /at/ leicester.ac.uk) <mailto:(mr268 /at/ leicester.ac.uk)> (Maria).*


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