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[ecrea] CFP ICA pre-conference: From fragmentation to Integration: Addressing the role of communication in refugee crises and resettlement processes

Thu Dec 07 09:16:45 GMT 2017





Please below you can find the call for papers for the upcoming ICA Pre-Conference From fragmentation to Integration: Addressing the role of communication in refugee crises and resettlement processes, to be hosted in Prague (Charles University, Faculty of Law) on the 24th May 2018.
You can access the full information of this call at the following link:
http://www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/Conference/2018/Preconferences/PCCFP_From_Fragmentation.pdf

We think this is an extremely relevant topic for our societies and we would like to see this preconference turning into a meeting point between academics and practitioners interested in reflecting upon the overarching questions and challenges we are facing. We invite interested participants to submit extended abstracts of less than 1500 words describing the purpose, theory, method(s), results, and conclusions of the scientific study or social intervention project. We also welcome critical and reflexive submissions that provide an insightful perspective on the topics highlighted in this call. Please submit 1) a separate title page including the paper's title and author's details (name, title, and institutional affiliation) and 2) an anonymized extended abstract.

Extended abstracts’ submission deadline is 15 January 2018. Acceptance decisions will be announced by 29 January 2018. Full papers are expected by 15th April 2018.

Please submit your proposals as a PDF file to the following email: (miguelvm /at/ soc.uva.es)
Organizing Committee – Contact information
Miguel Vicente Mariño, Universidad de Valladolid (Spain), (miguelvm /at/ soc.uva.es) Amanda Paz Alencar, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands), (pazalencar /at/ eshcc.eur.nl) Carlos Arcila Calderón, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), (carcila /at/ usal.es) Félix Ortega Mohedano, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), (fortega /at/ usal.es) Noemi Mena Montes, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands), (menamontes /at/ eshcc.eur.nl) This pre-conference is sponsored by the ICA Intercultural Communication Division.

Description
This pre-conference emerges from the ongoing refugee crisis at the Mediterranean Sea, calling for dialogue between scholars and practitioners interested in the roles played by Communication regarding this multifaceted challenge. Although the event is open to cover different humanitarian crises worldwide, the urgency and relevance of this topic appeals to the scholarly commitment to propose applied solutions to decision-making bodies and involved organizations. Discussing the role of mass and new social media, and intercultural communication in this context turns into a must for our research community.

Objective
The main purpose of this conference is to open a space for dialogue regarding the way refugee crises are tackled by political, social and media actors, aiming to set some guidelines to avoid those mistakes previously noticed and leading to a more constructive and conscious coverage and social action. Rationale The phenomenon of massive forced migration is not new in our global history. In recent years, however, increasing numbers of asylum-seekers and refugees have dominated headlines and political agendas across Europe and elsewhere. The current refugee crisis at the Mediterranean Sea put significant more pressure to EU countries. An unprecedented number of refugees reaching the shores of Europe and the socioeconomic, ethnic and religious diversity of recent flows have deepened and broadened existing integration challenges in European communities. At the same time, the crisis has emphasized the lack of cohesion between different policies and programs in this area, as well as the rise of nationalist and xenophobic sentiments in many European countries, affecting the development of a unified solution to growing refugee challenge. At a more global level, forced migrations related with climate change processes are also bringing new challenges to a current status quo based on national boundaries and control of human movements. Both the extension and depth of these challenges call for an integral approach to their management, mainly because all expectations point to an increase and intensification in the coming years.

This one-day pre-conference aims to identify and build up dialogues between diverse actors coming from different settings and disciplines. Based on applied social projects currently being developed in various countries and on the scientific projects accumulated during the last decade, this forum pretends to explore the encountered limitations and identify the effective solutions in these social, economic and cultural processes. The common backbone of the contributions will deal with the role played by Media and Communication in these social practices, ranging from mass media representations of refugees to the mediated communicational exchanges conducted in the social media scenarios, from political negotiation between relevant actors in the field of policy-making to the role played by hands-on intercultural mediation projects.

Communication Research, at its diverse layers and from a wide array of topics and methods, is expected to contribute to the analysis of social, demographic and cultural changes, so tackling the on-going refugee crisis in the Mediterranean area is an opportunity to connect theoretical and methodological advances with a relevant topic which certainly requires practical, technical and applied contributions. In doing so, screening the online activity turns into an additional sphere to be kept under attention, as a new space for social discussion and action.

Completing a panoramic approach to a complex phenomenon is the purpose of a pre-conference that will try to merge the strengths of social collective action with both the theoretical and empirical contributions coming from recent applied research projects. In doing so, comparative media and social studies are strongly encouraged. An initial, but not exhaustive, list of research questions we would like to address during this preconference are:

- What media coverage are receiving the humanitarian crises during the last decade? How are refugees being portrayed by media companies based at the countries receiving migrants? Which discourses and explanations are being displayed and spread across the audiences? - Which actions and projects are being more effective in promoting an open culture to dialogue and international cooperation? What is the role played by NGOs, social enterprises, private corporations in these processes and which relations are being established between them and media professionals? - How are the national authorities reacting to refugee crisis and resettlement, not only regarding their political decisions but also in terms of their communication strategies to deal with their internal and external publics? - Which roles are being played by lay citizens in the public sphere, both as a result of conventional courses of public opinion actions and as new digital forms of activism? - Are migration processes experiencing changes in the way they are presented to their public opinion? Has the traditional focus on punctual alarms shifted to a more balanced and continuous attention by media, society and political authorities? - How are refugees, as primary social actors in the process of integration, perceiving and redefining the role and functions of media and communication technologies during the whole integration process?

Submission process
The organizers invite interested participants to submit extended abstracts of less than 1500 words (around 4 double-spaced pages, including a selection of references) describing the purpose, theory, method(s), results, and conclusions of the scientific study or social intervention project. We also welcome critical and reflexive submissions that provide an insightful perspective on the topics highlighted in this call.

Please submit 1) a separate title page including the paper's title and author's details (name, title, and institutional affiliation) and 2) an anonymized extended abstract.

Extended abstracts’ submission deadline is 15 January 2018. Acceptance decisions will be announced by 29 January 2018. Full papers are expected by 15th April 2018.

Please submit your proposals as a PDF file to the following email: (miguelvm /at/ soc.uva.es) Expected outcomes A selection of papers presented at this pre-conference will be offered to join a special issue proposal to a leading Communication Research journal.

Registration fee
40 USD (including coffee breaks)

Expected assistance
This pre-conference is open to anyone interested in this topic, regardless s/he is presenting a paper. The maximum attendance allowed, due to the lecture hall dimensions is 90 participants

Conference venue
Charles University
Faculty of Law, Lecture Hall 103
https://www.prf.cuni.cz/en/

Právnická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Praze
nám. Curieových 7
116 40 Praha 1
Czech Republic

Date and time
24th May 2017
From 08:00 until 17:00

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