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(Re)Centering Midwest Refugee Resettlement and Home
edited by Jennifer Erickson
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 489 | Submission Open
Keywords: Midwest; refugees; home; exile; counternarrative; belonging
Exploring Race and Memory: Perspectives from the U.S. and South Africa
edited by Alex Lichtenstein
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3914 | Submission Open
Keywords: South Africa; the United States; memory; memorials; museums; racism
Adoption Is Stranger than Fiction
edited by Gonda Van Steen
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 494 | Submission Open
Keywords: child adoption; post-WWII intercountry adoption; adoption archives; lived experience; adoptee search and reunion
Forced Migration: New Trajectories, Challenges and Best Practices submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1999 | Submission Open
Keywords: forced migration/forced migrants; refugees; asylum seekers; migration policy; trauma; securitization frameworks; global compact on safe; regular and orderly migration; global compact on refugees; evidence-based practices with forced migrants; mental health; human rights
Identity in Flux: Intercultural Conflict and the Dynamics of Belonging
edited by and Christina Maligkoudi
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3093 | Submission Open
Keywords: identity; belonging; intercultural conflict
Tracing Roots, Shaping Futures: The History of Social Movements and Perspectives (Feminist, Indigenous, Masculinity, Political, Human Rights and Social Policy), Experiential Community Development, Resilience and Social and Gender Justice
edited by and Rita Dhungel
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 282 | Submission Open
Keywords: experiential community development; transformational practices; experiential and participatory approaches; innovation; historical contexts; sustainable development; comparative analysis; community health and wellbeing; social work; Indigenous/local knowledge; human rights; social movements; social equality; gender justice
Conspiracy Theories: Genealogies and Political Uses
edited by Marco Solinas
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 35905 | Submission Open
Keywords: conspiracy theories; genealogy of conspiracy theories; political conspiracism; populism
Decolonizing East African Genealogies of Power
edited by and Eyob Balcha Gebremariam
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9425 | Submission Open
Keywords: East Africa; decolonization; indigenous; nature; coloniality; ethnicism; nationalism; geopolitics; Indian Ocean; security
Global Racialization, Class and the Politics of Nation: Tensions and Articulations in the Twenty-First Century
edited by Steve Garner and Amal Abu-Bakare
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 314 | Submission Open
Keywords: racialization; race; class; nation; nationalism; state; social movements; ethnicity
The Impact of Social Connectedness and Cultural Adaptation on Mental Health
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 191 | Submission Open
Keywords: social connectedness; cultural adaptation; mental health; belonging and identity; resilience and community support; health equity
Secularism, Multiculturalism and Race–Religion Entanglements
edited by A. Sophie Lauwers and Anya Topolski
submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 304 | Submission Open
Keywords: multiculturalism; secularism; liberalism; racism; religious inequality; Christian hegemony; race– religion constellation; governance; politics of difference
Holding Up the Flag: Contributions of US Civil War Colored Troops and Their Descendents in the Struggle for Civil and Human Rights
edited by Walter Allen, Frank Smith and Dawn Chitty
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 46 | Submission Open
Keywords: US Civil War; troops; USCT; slavery; emancipation; union; confederacy; Civil Rights Movement; Black Liberation Struggle
Body–Land Relationships
edited by Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez and Shirley Anne Tate
submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 224 | Submission Open
Keywords: body land; body territory; Indigenous feminisms; Black feminisms
Exploring Family Ancestral Histories Through Genetic Genealogy
edited by LaKisha Tawanda David
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 1658 | Submission Open
Keywords: genetic genealogy; ancestral family histories; family tree reconstruction; genetic family tree inference; demographic histories
Transnational Genealogies: The Politics of Space, Migration, and Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Submission Open
Keywords: colonial borders; colonial migration; decolonization; diaspora; forced displacement; hybrid identity; politics of space; postcolonial identity; spatial; segregation; transnational genealogies
Perspectives on Global Diasporas: Ethnic Return Migration to the Ancestral Homeland
edited by Takeyuki Tsuda
submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 275 | Submission Open
Keywords: diasporas; ethnic return migration; unskilled and skilled migration; homeland; ethnic and national identity; discrimination and racism; generation; socioeconomic mobility; transnationalism
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