Collections and calls for papers

Asian-Australian Mobility and Migration: Multiculturalism, Policy and Intersectionality

Migration stands as a powerful force shaping the demographic, cultural, and economic landscapes of nations. In the context of Australia—a nation celebrated for its ostensibly successful management of a growi...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 August 2024

Canadian immigration policy: Opportunities and challenges for the road ahead

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a record drop in migration flows in most OECD countries (OECD 2021). While countries such as Australia and New Zealand have lowered immigration targets, Canada has taken a di...

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Closed

Claiming time: refugees and asylum seekers dealing with the production of different temporal regimes by politics of asylum and reception

This Special Issue investigates how refugees and asylum seekers deal with the politics of time (Low 2003) that run within asylum policies, including the different production of temporal regimes along diverse...

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Closed

Community Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways: global refugee resettlement movements driven by local actors

This special issue brings together the first collection of articles examining conceptual and empirical dimensions of the new Community Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways. It offers a range of theoretical...

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Closed

Fertility and Social Inequalities in Migrant Populations: a Look at the Roles of Selection, Context of Reception, and Employment

This collection looks at fertility differentials and social inequalities across different groupings and across time. It contains twelve empirical papers that deal with both international migrants and interna...

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Closed

Making solidarity in migration contexts: from the self, the local to the transnational

Migration scholars have shown a growing interest in the concept of solidarity, especially in reference to ‘migrant solidarity’ as opposed to ‘national solidarity’ (della Porta & Steinhilper 2021). Since 2015...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing

Migration temporalities and migrants’ experience of time in rural and remote spaces

This special issue wishes to stimulate a needed reflection on migration temporalities and migrants’ experience of time in rural and remote spaces and places and fill a gap in the literature, as very few scho...

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Closed

Moving as a European amidst multiple crises: Patterns of belonging and exclusion

This special issue addresses the phenomenon of intra-European migration. Mobility and migration processes within Europe have received a great deal of academic attention since the beginning of the 21st centur...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

15 June 2024

The role of language and communication in asylum procedures

Narratives within asylum procedures have been studied within both language and social sciences. Linguistic scholars have demonstrated how asylum narratives are co-constructed by all the participants during t...

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Closed

The Shifting Geopolitics of Return Migration and Reintegration

The recent geo-politicisation of return migration warrants deep consideration of the politics of return and reintegration. A focus on geopolitics prefigures the study of reintegration not just as circumstant...

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Closed

Unknown stories of intermediaries in women’s migration: men, women and non-binary people

Recent scholarship has promoted gender equality in the field of female migration. Although generally seeking to record stories on the experiences of migrant women, scholars are also working to uncover the le...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing

Why Do Migrants Stay? Migrant Retention in Small and Mid-Sized Cities in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand

Many small and mid-sized cities view international migration as a way to address labour shortages and to counter the effects of population decline. Smaller urban centres often face significant challenges to ...

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Closed

“Welcoming spaces”: migration and new communities in marginalised regions

The aim of the special issue is to explore various aspects (the creation, implementation, functioning, and evaluation) of the topic of the so-called “welcoming spaces” and “welcoming initiatives” for newcome...

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Closed