[Commlist] Call for Papers: Journal of Global Diaspora and Media (Special Issue: ‘Migrations, Diasporas and Media: Human Rights and (In)mobility during the Pandemic’)

Call for Papers: /Journal of Global Diaspora and Media/


Special Issue: ‘Migrations, Diasporas and Media: Human Rights and 
(In)mobility during the Pandemic’


The IAMCR Diaspora and the Media Working Group together with the Journal 
of Global Diaspora and Media encourage scholars to submit papers that 
address key topics from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary 
perspectives in relation to the pandemic of COVID-19 regarding the 
migrant and refugee population, with all its implications in terms of 
human rights and (in)mobility, highlighting the practices of resistance 
carried out by part of the people directly involved or by the social 
organizations.


The year 2020 will be marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the thousands of 
deaths caused by it, in addition to a slowdown in the economies of 
several countries, increased inequality, and, in the context of 
international migrations, the intensification of issues related to 
mobility, securitization and vulnerability of migrants and refugees. If 
digital culture has a fundamental role in contemporary diasporic 
transnationalism, in a time where being in quarantine was almost a 
routine, we have never been so dependent on electronic communications as 
in 2020.


Key Questions:


• Studies on digital diasporas that are contributing to the discussion 
on digital humanities’ epistemological and methodological approaches 
when analyzing migrant communities and their interactions in physical 
and digital scenarios.

• Studies on mobility and migration in the digital era, including 
critical approaches on power structures, inequality, imbalances and 
discriminatory scenarios, and how they can promote inclusiveness and 
reciprocity; how studies on dynamic hybridization of migrant collective 
identities between home and host countries evolve when diasporic 
communities regroup and interact in second or third migratory projects 
such as transborder, transnational or transcontinental mobilizations.

• How contemporary diasporas and their media can promote or recreate 
homeland and host land discourses of belonging, and how they can 
challenge discrimination and/or advocate for inclusiveness.

• How diaspora and media studies can contribute to the understanding of 
interconnections of diverse groups in global cities and urban encounters.

• Potential approaches to responding to the questions, could be built 
on, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Migrant subjects (irregular, female and LGBT migrations) in the 
context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Strategies of resistance and resilience in the face of the pandemic.

• Strategies for (in)mobility in the context of the pandemic.

• Solidarity practices by organized society with migrant and refugee 
people in the context of the pandemic

• State of emergency/exemption, migration policies and 
suspension/reduction of the rights of migrants and refugees.


Submission


Submission of abstracts should include: name, institutional affiliation, 
contact information, title and a 500-word abstract


Email your abstracts to both guest editors:


Sofia Zanforlin: (szanforlin /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(szanforlin /at/ gmail.com)>

Jessica Retis: (jessica.retis /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(jessica.retis /at/ gmail.com)>


Publication Deadlines and Timeline


Submission of abstracts: 15 January 2021

Confirmation of acceptance: 15 March 2021

Full manuscripts: 15 October 2021

Post-review acceptance decisions: 15 January 2022

Publication of special issue: May 2022


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Journal of Global Diaspora and Media

ISSN 2632-5853 | Online ISSN 2632-5861

1 issue per volume | First published in 2020


To order this journal online or to find out more about the CFP, visit 
our website: www.intellectbooks.com <http://www.intellectbooks.com>

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