[URBANTH-L]CFP REPOST: Migration, Immigration and Emigration
Angela Jancius
jancius at ohio.edu
Mon Jan 28 11:57:41 EST 2008
Dear All,
The Anthropology News CFP message sent to the list yesterday was missing the
announcement details. They attachment was removed by our listserv software
(fyi: Urbanth-L's listserv software does not process attachments or html
documents). As mentioned in the previous message, the deadline for proposals
has been extended until the end of January. SUNTA will help to coordinate
this AN theme issue. Contact SUNTA's new AN column editor, Jayne Howell
(mbc at umn.edu) for background information. -AJ
Call for Article Proposals
Migration, Immigration, and Emigration
CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC POLICY
What can anthropology contribute to the understanding and design of public
policy on (im)migration? How have different governments responded to
(im)migrants and public concerns regarding (im)migration? How are
(im)migrants and transnational communities affected by public policy and
policy discourse? How do different authorities at municipal, state,
national, and international levels conceive of public domains of care and
the provision of public services? How are notions of race employed in
(im)migration policy discourse?
GLOBAL FLOWS
The transnational movement of people and capital is a popular theme among
contemporary social scientists examining international development, seasonal
migration, and various other topics. In what ways has population movement
impacted or inspired the kind of work anthropologists do and how
anthropologists conceive of their subjects? How have anthropologists
examined flows of information, raw materials, food, medicine, power, and
capital alongside population flows? How have indigeneity, locality,
citizenship, and nationality been articulated within and alongside
discourses of global flows?
How are historic human migratory patterns discussed in the different
subfields of anthropology? How have scientific innovations (e.g. genetics
research technologies) affected the ways in which anthropologists examine
and understand historic migration?
CONCEPTUALIZING BORDERS
Borders and boundaries provide a rich but challenging site for
anthropological research. How do anthropologists engage with contested
notions of social and geographic borders/boundaries? How has work on
migration affected anthropological methods and the ways in which scope and
scale are articulated in ethnography? How do individuals and social groups
re-imagine their identities in temporary and permanent situations of forced
migration, refuge, and asylum?
Email a 200-300 word proposal or draft commentary if available (800-1400
words) to Anthropology News Associate Managing Editor Dinah Winnick,
dwinnick at aaanet.org. Proposals for photo essays are also welcome and should
include five photographs and a 200-300 word description. Due to popular
demand, the deadline for all proposals has been extended to January 31,
2008.
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