[Commlist] Call for Edited book chapters: Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants

*Call for Paper. "**Extended Deadline February 17, 2019."** Edited 
book/Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among 
Latin American Migrants/**.**For the Brill’s Critical Latin America 
Series. *

David Dalton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and David 
Ramírez Plascencia (University of Guadalajara) invite abstracts for the 
edited collection /Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public 
Engagement in the Americas/, which will be submitted to Brill’s Series, 
/Critical Latin America/. The series editors with Brill have already 
expressed great interest in the project.

This volume focuses on the intersection amid the research on the 
conformation of digital diasporas and studies related to public 
engagement and social activism, particularly on how social platforms and 
mobile applications enable the conformation of virtual communities of 
Latin American migrants living abroad. Thanks to spaces of socialization 
like Facebook closed groups, Bulletin Board System (BBS), and WhatsApp 
groups among others, Latin Americans are able to stay in contact with 
the culture that they left behind. Members of these groups share 
information related to their homeland through discussions of food, 
music, celebrations and other cultural elements. Of course, these groups 
also discuss news and data related to the political, social, and 
economic situations of both their host country and their home countries. 
This everyday interchange encourages cohesion and solidarity, and it 
strengthens the feelings of belonging even when people may be thousands 
of kilometers apart. These diasporic virtual communities are not distant 
to the struggles in their homelands; on the contrary, thanks to digital 
technologies, people from these groups organize public and virtual 
demonstrations, thus constructing transnational solidarity chains to 
denounce injustices and discrimination in their country(ies).

The current refugee crises have seen Latin Americans migrate to 
different parts of their home countries, to other countries in the 
region, as well as to the United States and Europe. These conditions 
invite us to reconsider traditional concepts like identity, 
participation and community under a context of economic depression, 
social struggle and a rising hostility toward immigrants on both sides 
of the Atlantic. This edited book looks for contributions on relevant 
cases on how Latin Americans use information technologies to build 
diasporic communities not only to stay in contact with their culture at 
a distance but to power social activism and to fight back against social 
and political tribulations in both contexts (homeland and the host 
country). Above all, this anthology aims to illustrate that besides all 
the misfortunes, perils and the distance, diasporic communities are not 
willing to renounce to their cultures, nor do they merely acquiesce to 
the demands of their new host countries.

You are warmly invited to provide a document with a brief bio (no more 
than 250 words with titles, affiliations, and contacts) and an abstract 
(300-500 words). Please send the proposal to the following addresses: 
(_david.dalton /at/ uncc.edu) <mailto:(david.dalton /at/ uncc.edu)>_ and 
(_david.ramirez /at/ redudg.udg.mx) <mailto:(david.ramirez /at/ redudg.udg.mx)>_

●*Deadline February 17, 2019.*

Please feel free to contact us with any questions.

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