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

Call for Full chapters. 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 to send Full 
chapters for the edited collection Digital Diasporas and Public 
Engagement in the Americas, which will be submitted to Brill’s 
Series, Critical Latin America. The series editors have already accepted 
the project, we are looking for additional works to complete the volume. 
Chapters far beyond the US-Mexico sphere are particularly welcome.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or to send us a 
250-words proposal ASP 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)>

a) The deadline to submit the full chapter is July 05, 2020.

*Rationale***
This volume interrogates the intersection of digital diasporas to 
studies on public engagement and social activism, particularly how 
social platforms and mobile applications enable the creation 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 ignorant of the struggles in their homelands; on the 
contrary, thanks to digital technologies, people from these groups 
organize public and virtual demonstrations. This allows them to 
construct transnational solidarity chains that 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 despite 
misfortune, peril, and distance, diasporic communities remain unwilling 
to renounce their cultures, nor do they merely acquiesce to the demands 
of their new host countries.
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*General Guidelines*

a) Please give a careful read to the Brills’ Author Resources page 
https://brill.com/page/PublishingBookwithBrill/publishing-books-with-brill

b) Brill’s downloadable Author Guide will provide the answers to most 
questions surrounding format. It is important that they read all 
instructions thoroughly and pay particular attention at this early stage 
to matters related to copyright and permissions where applicable.

c) The chapters’ length will be5000-9000 words(including references, 
notes, etc.)

d) Please bear in mind that the acceptance of your abstract does not 
necessarily involve the final acceptance of the full chapter, since all 
the edited book will be submitted to external peer review.

e) APA citation style.

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