Special Issue "On the Move: Human Migration Past, Present and Future"

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Madine VanderPlaat
Department of Sociology and Criminology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3, Canada
Website: http://www.smu.ca/academic/arts/sociology/windows/vanderplaat.html
E-Mail: madine.vanderplaat@smu.ca
Phone: +1 902 496 8289
Fax: +1 902 420 5121
Interests: health and well-being of vulnerable populations; emancipatory politics, citizen participation and community capacity building; collaborative research and policy development

Guest Editor
Dr. Val Marie Johnson
Department of Sociology and Criminology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3, Canada
Website: http://www.smu.ca/academic/arts/sociology/bios/Johnson.html
E-Mail: vjohnson@smu.ca
Phone: +1 902 420 5877
Fax: +1 902 420 5121
Interests: histories and theories of social power and identity (linked with class, ethnicity, race, age, citizenship, gender and sexuality), of cities and urban social relations; socio-legal and governmentality studies

Dear Colleagues,

Human beings have been on the move for an estimated 80,000 years when homo sapiens first began migrating from their homes in Africa. Over the centuries the history of the social world has been profoundly shaped by humanity's ebb and flow throughout the four corners of the earth. Sometimes on a voluntary basis, sometimes forced, mass migration has been propelled by natural disasters, persecution, war, and poverty;  colonization and exploitation;  political and religious oppression and the longing for a healthier, wealthier and safer life. Today there are 214 million international migrants, more men, women and children "on the move" then at any other time in history.  This special issue provides a critical look at how mass migrations have affected the past and present of both sending and receiving countries as well as the how advancements in transportation and communications technology will affect patterns of transnational population movements in the future.   Contributors also call our attention to the gendered and familial nature of the migration experience.

Prof. Dr. Madine VanderPlaat
Dr. Val Marie Johnson
Guest Editors

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• migration patterns
• transnationalism
• gender
• children
• families