[Commlist] Call for papers Obra Digital 'Journalism and Human Mobility'

We are currently accepting article submissions for our upcoming 
monographic section on ''*Journalism and Human Mobility: Towards the 
Construction of New Narratives on Migrations*'' to be published in the 
June 2025 issue. We also accept articles for the miscellaneous section.

The monographic section will be edited by Dr. Amarela varela-Huerta 
(UACM) and Eileen Truax (UAB).

*Call for papers monographic section:*
The narratives surrounding contemporary migrations, the forms of refuge 
and asylum, forced internal and transnational displacement, migration as 
a consequence of climate change, return, deportation, and many other 
forms of human mobility occupy a prominent space on social digital 
platforms and mass media. Audiences receive information about the 
exodus, transit, and arrival at destinations of migrants through a 
narrative constructed in a crisis key, which prioritizes the 
criminalization and problematization of migration and migrants both in 
their individual stories and collectively.

The dominant presence of violence in information about 
migrations—detentions, deportations, entrapments, massacres, 
kidnappings, disappearances, rapes, murders—, the institutionalization 
of cruelty from punitive and discriminatory state legal logics, and the 
normalization of xenophobic practices in societies witnessing the 
journey and arrival, means that narratives about human mobility focus 
mainly on the moments of transit and arrival, which are often very 
newsworthy, but do not explain the full cycle of migration. Telling the 
origin of displaced and migrant people, the causes that have motivated 
their mobility, and especially telling what happens after arriving at 
the destination—beyond the deserts, shipwrecks, and jungles—is 
fundamental to understanding migration phenomena comprehensively and to 
constructing a more accurate and just narrative about migrants and 
migrations from a human rights and social justice perspective.

We call on journalists, researchers, and students of migration, borders, 
exile, refuge, asylum, and return to propose academic works to consider 
the keys for journalism that prioritizes migrants and complexifies their 
stories, desires, fears, and networks of affection and care; that 
explains the causes and consequences of human mobility by incorporating 
the complex humanity of each person beyond their status as migrants into 
the narrative.

*Submission of manuscripts: Until November 15, 2024*
*Publication: June 2025*

To see the full call visit: 
https://revistesdigitals.uvic.cat/index.php/obradigital/announcement 
<https://revistesdigitals.uvic.cat/index.php/obradigital/announcement>
For more information you can contact: (obradigital /at/ uvic.cat)

No payment from the authors will be required.

The journal accepts articles in English and Spanish. All articles will 
be translated into the other language free of charge for the authors so 
that all articles will be published in both languages.


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