Critical Studies/Perspectives on Migration and the Migrant Experience

Dear Colleagues,

A significant portion of scholarship has represented refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants of color (with and without papers) as passive recipients of Western generosity (Espiritu), objects of rescue, suffering, and voicelessness, and/or targets of profiling, surveillance, and detention. To decenter these monoliths, Societies is soliciting empirical (qualitative and quantitative) and conceptual/theoretical papers that offer a critical examination of migration and of the migrant experience. Specifically, this Special Issue aims to publish work from scholars across disciplines that consider: (1) migratory practices as deeply intermingled with colonial/neocolonial practices and processes, imperialism, war, displacement, racialized state violence, and globalization; (2) a reconceptualization of the migrant experience, not grounded in an implicit deficient model, but migrants as complex and multifaceted individuals, negotiating nation–state–borders–home, papers, identity, etc.; and (3) migrant subjectivities, in regard to the varied ways migrants oppose, subvert, and resist dominant discourses, similar to novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen sentiments of “having the unheard own their share of the means of representation.” For the type of the papers, we will only accept Articles, Reviews and Conceptual Papers.

Dr. Krystal M. Perkins
Dr. Arita Balaram
Guest Editors

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