Rethinking the Mobilities of Migrant Children and Youth across the Americas

Dear Colleagues,

We are writing to invite your participation in a fall 2022 symposium titled “Rethinking the Mobilities of Migrant Children and Youth across the Americas”. It is our hope that the symposium will be held over two days, in person on the campus of the University of Albany. If an in-person gathering is not possible, we will gather virtually.

The papers selected for this symposium will comprise a Special Issue of the journal Social Sciences, with a tentative publication date of 2023. Social Sciences is an open access, internationally based, multidisciplinary journal that engages issues of timely social and political importance. One of the benefits of this publication outlet is the ability to quickly disseminate high-quality research to international audiences who may not have access to research through institutional settings. For information on the journal, see:  https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci, and for a recent Special Issue, see: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/Immigration_and_White_Supremacy.

For this symposium and Special Issue, we aim to highlight child or youth-centric research focused on mobilities between and within countries in the Americas, or between the Americas and another location. We conceptualize mobilities broadly to include migrations, adoptions, legal status shifts, and second-generation migrant educational and social mobilities. We ask contributions to reflect on the gains of putting children or youth at the center of research inquiry. The goal is to explore what we gain from putting children or youth at the center of research inquiry, as it helps us to better understand (a) theories related to mobilities more broadly and (b) the policy implications of such research.

Prof. Dr. Leah C. Schmalzbauer
Dr. Joanna Dreby
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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