Gender, Religion and Migration: Translocalities and Pandemics
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 June 2022) | Viewed by 9343
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Interests: gender; religion; migration; disasters; island countries
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Dear Colleagues,
In 2020, the global scale of COVID-19 highly demonstrated the intersections of gender, religion, and migration within communities and nation-states. As borders, both domestic and international, continue to define and target bodies for inclusion or exclusion by state agents and others, the embedded social scripts for women, men, and non-binary persons are compounded by religion and migration histories. For example, the different modes and levels of population mobility have rendered gendered bodies vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, and occupational segregation. Religious practices in public spaces have become pods for the spread of infection as participants travel to their home communities and beyond. The consequent imposition of travel restrictions and barriers for social engagements around the world require new perspectives on the relations of gender, religion, and migration in the context of the current pandemic and translocalities.
Translocalities, broadly conceived, refer to the physical, geographical, structural, and social as well as the imagined states and well-being affecting individuals, groups, and communities. These are fluid and complex terrains that construct borders, bodies of belonging, conformities, and punitive acts, amongst others. Gendered bodies are necessarily located in particular cultural contexts, political regimes, and economic settings. These are not mutually exclusive but intersect with other dimensions, including religion and spirituality. As people move within and about their communities, they inhabit translocal spaces where the processes of ‘being’ and ‘settling’ are transformed, or not. Under the aegis of the global pandemic, translocalities are crucial sites of engagements from the personal to the communal, from the local to the global.
We invite original works that examine the intersections and interrelationships of gender, religion, and migration along these sample questions:
- In what ways do variants of gender expressions find affirmations or condonations from religious precepts affecting immigrant groups before, during, and after a pandemic?
- How does religion contribute to gendered patterns of survival or coping strategies across generations of immigrant groups?
- What are the transformative potentials of religion for gender equity under a pandemic?
- In matters of public health under a pandemic, does religion matter in the lives of immigrants?
- Is religiosity a factor in the survival of inbound/outbound persons? Does it differ based on intersectional gender?
- What are the gendered effects of the multipronged restrictions of family, state, and religion during the pandemic?
We accept submissions in the English language. If interested, please submit an abstract of 500 words with a succinct title and a short biography of contributing authors to Guest Editor on or before 20 March 2022. Full length articles of about 6000 words including references are due by 25 June 2022.
Prof. Dr. Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Translocalities
- Pandemic
- Transformations
- Religiosity/religion
- Gender/gender expressions/gender roles/equity
- State control
- Resilience/coping
- Migration
- Ethnicities
- Generations
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