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[ecrea] cfp: Immigrant Protest
Wed May 06 09:22:40 GMT 2009
Call for Papers
Citizenship Studies Special Issue: IMMIGRANT PROTEST
Guest co-editors: Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University, USA) and
Imogen Tyler (Lancaster University, UK)
This proposed special issue on immigrant protest will explore forms
of dissent, resistance and revolt amongst citizens and non-citizens.
It will invite contributions addressing immigrant protest in
everyday, local and wider national and global contexts. It will
particularly seek out interdisciplinary work by scholars, activists,
and artists which offer accounts and analyses of protests and
protest materials, an arena that is under-represented and
under-explored in immigration and migration studies.
The rise in migration flows across the globe; the condition of
refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants, detainees with
precarious status and the "problems" occasioned by their presence in
various national contexts; policing measures across the world that
aim to control the incoming strangers; and the increasing
criminalization of migrants are phenomena that have generated much
recent scholarship, especially in social sciences. As many have
argued, migrants have become precarious symbols of globalization,
figures of intrusive otherness as well as key characters in global
struggles for freedom of movement, human rights, and claims to the
rights of citizenship. Yet, not all migrants are equal. Ruben
Andersson, for example, reminds us that "certain 'migrants' - the
rich, the white, the western Europeans - get their 'migranthood'
erased...and 'the migrant' starts looking like a brittle ideological
construct in need of thorough interrogation" (2009). Through a focus
on immigrant protest we hope to destablize the sometimes hegemonic
theoretical and popular construction of `the migrant as other` and
track some of the contradictory and complex experiences of migrancy,
citizenship, belonging, and legality and illegality.
From the massive immigrant marches in the United States in 2006
under the banner of A Day Without Immigrants to various recent
protests in Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and Europe, immigrant
protests have gained global visibility, underscoring the urgency of
these counter-hegemonic acts of dissent and resistance. These
protests are sometimes inspirational but are as well politically
and ethically complex in terms of the forms of solidarities and
alliances that are possible (or not) between citizens and
non-citizens. `Immigrant Protest' will explore forms of social,
political and aesthetic engagements migrants and immigrants who, in
a variety of contexts and in a diverse range of mediums,
communicate immigrant experience and in particular, but not
exclusively, the threat of state violence, injustice, racialized
and gendered oppression, and the logic of exclusion and othering.
We are interested in essays which discuss political engagements by
refugees and non-status migrants as well as less obvious instances
of protest such as political art or pedagogical practices.
Some of the "protest materials" we hope to see discussed in this
issue are: noborders networks and camps, immigrant marches, riots
and fires in detention centers, solidarity "sleepouts" and protest
camps, and demonstrations at detention facilities. We welcome
essays that analyze humanitarian campaigns, noborders protests and
camps, anti-deportation movements, underground health and social
services, charitable and legal aid, religious networks and church
based resistance, immigrant journalism, guerrilla media and video,
internet blogs and online asylum diaries, theater, cinema,
performance, and broadly understood art activism. The central themes
we hope this issue will raise and explore include the phenomenology
and corporeality of immigrant protest, protest as a border-state,
protest as a claim of citizenship beyond the State, questions of
visibility and demands of recognition raised through protest (and
the dangers of visibility in, for instance, anti-deportation
campaigns), citizenship and political aesthetics, protesting
identities and subjective agency, `hidden protests' within
immigration detention and other border zones, protest and ethics and
the some of the psycho-social meanings and consequences of protest.
Alongside more spectacular or `newsworthy` forms of protest, we hope
to encourage contributions which will explore `everyday protest',
small and ordinary acts of resistance which express the desire for a
liveable life.
Please sumbit a 500-word abstract and a short bio by August 15, 2009
to (marcinia /at/ ohiou.edu) and (i.tyler /at/ lancaster.ac.uk).
Katarzyna Marciniak
Associate Professor
Transnational Studies
Department of English
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
Imogen Tyler
Sociology Department
Lancaster University
LA1 4YD
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