Call for Papers – Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights

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In light of developments across the Migration sphere as well as the recent developments in international migration and refugee law, global health, border management, illegal migration and intersectional migration experiences, a new edited volume intends to feature a collection of papers, opinion pieces, critiques and op-eds (even testimonials and reflections will be considered)The volume solicits pieces from inter-disciplinary perspectives, from scholars, researchers and advanced graduate students from all over the world.

Abstracts are welcome on the following subject-areas

International Migration and Refugee Law
Human Rights in Migration
Health in Migration
Internal Displacement
Illegal Migration Routes and Border Management
Refugee Health
Gender in Migration
Unaccompanied Child Migrants
Environmental Migrants
Asylum, Documentation, Detention, Off-shore Processing and Legal Frameworks
Labor Migrants, Migrant Domestic Workers, Human Trafficking, and Sex Workers
Citizenship, Otherness, Stigmatization and Public Perception
Migration and Refugee Policy
Effects of Migration and Refugee Policies on Bi-lateral Relations of States

Submisison details

Kindly submit your abstracts (no more than 250 words) to Jasmin Lilian Diab at diabjasmin@gmail.com or j50@aub.edu.lb no later than June 30, 2020 with the title “Submission to Edited Volume” in the subject of the email. Please include short biographies of each author (no more than 200 words). If your abstract is approved, you are encouraged to send in the final paper by September 7, 2020. Previously published papers across other outlets will not be considered. If you are publishing a section from a thesis, dissertation or book kindly indicate this in your submission email.

Final contributions, if commissioned, are expected to be a maximum of 4000-5000 words though the guide length will vary depending on the nature of the contribution, and this can be discussed with the book’s editor.

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About The Author(s)

Jasmin Lilian Diab is an Assistant Professor of Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University (LAU)’s Department of Social Sciences. Previously, she served as the Refugee Health Program Coordinator at the American University of Beirut’s Global Health Institute (GHI) and as a Research Associate under GHI’s Political Economy of Health in Conflict Workstream. She is a Senior Consultant on Refugee and Gender Studies at Cambridge Consulting Services, a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, a Junior Scholar in Forced Displacement at University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, and a Junior Fellow and Program Lead at the Global Research Network’s ‘War, Conflict and Global Migration’ Think Tank. Previously, she served as the Research and Project Manager of the Lebanese Research Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies at Notre Dame University-Louaize’s Faculty of Law and Political Science, as well as the MENA Regional Focal Point on Migration of the UN General Assembly-mandated UN Major Group for Children and Youth.

Call for Papers – Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights

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