Discussions

Special Issue Call for Papers -- Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 

Transient migrants and their information behaviours 

How people source, engage and act on information have become of significant interest to researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, NGOs and community groups, alike. This is because we live in an information-saturated world which offers a wide range information to meet our needs both online and offline. These challenges become even more heightened when people are in countries other than their own and subject to multiple digital ecologies which include

Intellect is pleased to announce that Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture 14.1 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Postmigration: Aesthetics and Interventions’

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/crossings-journal-of-migration-culture

Aims & Scope

Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture is a peer-reviewed journal that offers a space for debates on the important nexus of migration and culture. It promotes diverse global and local perspectives by fostering cutting-edge research in this area, with a strong

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

12pm-1:15pm US Eastern Time

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This talk will look at the JDC’s role in assisting the Intergovernmental Committee on European Migration (ICEM), a nongovernmental organization founded in 1951 to facilitate the emigration of millions of Displaced Persons, refugees, and migrants located in Western Europe to receiving states in North America, South America, and Oceania in the decades after World War II.  The JDC was one of several voluntary organizations registered with the U.S. State Department to resettle immigrants and had the experience, expertise, and community support

Liverpool University Press is delighted to share the news that ROMANI STUDIES is now a fully Open Access journal, thanks to generous sponsorship from The Gypsy Lore Society . 

Romani Studies is an international, interdisciplinary journal publishing modern scholarship in all branches of Romani/Gypsy studies. To celebrate this fantastic step in accessibility and growth for the journal, the Editors have shared their thoughts on the Liverpool University Press blog, which you can browse below:  

Romani Studies Becomes a Fully Open Access Journal > 

Professor Colin Clark, editorial board member for Ro

CfP: Guest-workers of the World

5th ELHN Conference

Uppsala, 11-13 June 2024

ELHN’s “Labour Migration History” working group invites proposals for papers for the Fifth European Labour History Network conference. The event takes place from 11–13 June 2024 in Uppsala, Sweden, and is organised by the Swedish Labour Movement’s Archives and Library.

So-called guest-workers programs spread out in many transnational contexts during and after the Second World War through agreements that involved various actors at the national and transnational levels. Much has been done in relation to specific cases

Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.1

Special Issue: Trade in Humans

Edited by Kristin Roebuck, Johanna Ransmeier, and Jessamyn Abel

Deadlines | Convergence proposals: March 15, 2024 | Essays: August 30, 2024

A PDF of this call is available here. Please direct all questions to verge@psu.edu.

Trade in humans is a vast and age-old engine of migration between regions in the Asia-Pacific and, since the sixteenth century, from Asia to the Americas, Africa, and Europe. This special issue of Verge seeks to illuminate both the ubiquity of the trade in Asian people and its particularities across time

Call for Papers: Conrad E. Wright Research Conference on Citizenship

Massachusetts Historical Society

July 11-13, 2024

Proposals Due 10 July 2023

The centennial of both the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and Immigration Act of 1924 offers an opportunity to explore the intersection of two subjects that have not always been considered alongside each other. However, as both scholars of Native American and U.S. immigration history grapple with the legacies of settler colonialism in their respective fields, the links between the aforementioned pieces of legislation come into clearer focus. Recent

Special Issue Call for Papers -- Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 

Transient migrants and their information behaviours 

How people source, engage and act on information have become of significant interest to researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, NGOs and community groups, alike. This is because we live in an information-saturated world which offers a wide range information to meet our needs both online and offline. These challenges become even more heightened when people are in countries other than their own and subject to multiple digital ecologies which include

Artistic Residency: A Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Anwerbestopp

University College Dublin
2-3 December 2023

Keynote Speaker: Dr Onur Suzan Nobrega (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)
Keynote Artist: Cem Kaya, Director of films including Liebe, D-Mark und Tod (2022), Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema (2014) and Arabeks (2010).

2021 saw numerous events take place across Germany to mark the 60th anniversary of the Anwerbeabkommen [bilateral recruitment agreement] between the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey, signaling its importance within

I am excited to announce the opening of Migrating Science: Stories of Immigration and Innovation at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. In this small exhibition, you can hear the voices and learn the stories of scientists and engineers who immigrated to the United States in the 20th century. The exhibit features oral history interview excerpts, museum objects, and archival documents highlighting scientists’ immigration experiences and scientific contributions.

Migrating Science is on display through November at the Science History Institute’s free museum, which is open Wednesday