> Call for Papers
>
> Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
> Global Context
>
> Issue Two, Spring 2007
> "Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship"
>
> The editorial staff for the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
> Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
> invites submissions for its second issue on the subject of "Transnational
> Migration, Race, and Citizenship." Ethnoscapes maps the development of
> important themes in the field of race and ethnic studies by using a
> "classic" piece as a point of departure for a reconsideration of critical
> issues within the contemporary economic, political, and cultural terrain.
>
> While the classic piece establishes the thematic parameters of each issue,
> authors are under no obligation to actively engage the arguments posed by
> that work.
>
> Issue two explores the subject of "Transnational Migration, Race, and
> Citizenship" with consideration of the chapter "The Shock of
> Alienation" from Oscar Handlin's ground-breaking The Uprooted: The Epic
> Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People. In this
> chapter, Handlin investigates the relationships between labor, cultural
> membership, citizenship, and the production of racial difference. Citing
> violence against Chinese and Filipino immigrants in the early 19th
> century, he details the ways in which labor tensions in the US were
> integral to the establishment of federal anti-immigration policy aimed at
> these "unassimilable" groups. According to Handlin, cultural variation and
> poverty status became the criteria used to infer an ostensibly inherent
> racial inferiority that served as the basis for denying Chinese and
> Filipino immigrants the rights and protections that accompanied
> citizenship.
>
> While labor, cultural membership, and race remain central components of
> the current complexities of immigration, new concerns have emerged since
> the 1951 publication of Handlin's Pulitzer Prize-winning history. On one
> hand, new signs of deterritorialization-the increasing incidence of dual
> citizenship, home-country remittances, expatriate involvement in
> home-country politics, and "diasporic" community-building-have led some to
> assert the declining relevance of the nation-state as a primary attachment
> and the declining significance of citizenship itself. On the other,
> debates and policy developments around immigration and citizenship suggest
> that the nation-state's power to regulate the movement of labor and
> capital within and across borders is far from obsolete. In particular,
> state power continues to have a profound impact on racialized disparities,
> processes of racialization, and on the burdens and benefits of
> citizenship. In this new context, we are compelled to reconsider the
> nature of transnational migration, the nature of citizenship, the link
> between the two, and the role of race in mediating that link.
>
> To this end, the "Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship" issue of
> Ethnoscapes seeks manuscripts that investigate:
>
> A) Economic Flows, Migration, and Racialized Disparities
> How is migration racialized/ethnicized and gendered? What is the
> relationship between late capitalist economic operations, migration, and
> racialized disparities in health, education, self determination and
> representation, and wealth? In what ways do "citizenship gaps"-spaces in
> which market participation forecloses political membership-re/produce
> racialized disparities globally?
>
> B) Borders, Boundaries, and "The Nation"
> How is immigration policy racialized? What is/should be the current role
> of the nation-state in generating policy that regulates the movement of
> wealth and people across borders and in regulating resultant disparities?
> What forms of regulation/governance that exceed the nation-state can be
> conceptualized? What role does cultural nationalism play in political
> membership? What transnational forms of political and cultural membership
> are/can be imagined?
>
> C) Processes of Racialization
> In what ways are immigrant populations affecting domestic racial
> hierarchies and racial identities? How are transnational cultural flows
> affecting conceptualizations of race and ethnicity? Their relationship to
> nation?
>
> The deadline for manuscript submission is March 2, 2007. Please send
> submissions to [log in to unmask] and
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> http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/ethnoscapes/styleguide.html to prepare your
> document in accordance with the style guidelines of Ethnoscapes.
>
> Melanie Maltry
> Assistant Editor, Ethnoscapes
> The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
> The Ohio State University
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