Please see below - a call for papers for a special edition of the journal International Development Planning Review which is published by Liverpool University Press. Contact details for the editor are below.
In addition, I am book reviews editor for the IDPR so if anyone has recently written a book on Caribbean development, rural / urban land management, gender and development, etc then please let me know.
Thanks
Amanda
Mobility and Migration: Challenges for Development Policy, Planning and Practice
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of IDPR
Mobility and migration have been long-standing concerns of development planners, practitioners and policy-makers, but have recently attracted increased attention, not least because of the rising numbers of international migrants, particularly those moving from Global South to Global North. The UNDP’s 2009 Human Development Report focuses on ‘Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development’, highlighting the importance of population movement in achieving or restricting human development.
The movement of people is sometimes viewed positively, for example remittances from international migration or transport systems contributing to improved economic activity in a city. From a more negative perspective mobility may be construed as dangerous or threatening, the rights of migrants may be severely curtailed, or outmigration is associated with an outward flow of resources.
This special issue of IDPR will address the ways in which mobility and development intertwine, focusing particularly on the challenges which mobility (or lack of mobility) create for development policy, planning and practice at a range of scales. How can policy-makers, planners, NGOs, governments and other development institutions incorporate and build on the positive effects of mobility? How can they mitigate the more negative effects?
Possible topics include (but are not restricted to):
Remittances and hometown associations
Refugees and internally-displaced peoples
Urban regeneration and displacement
Transport systems
Rural-urban migration linkages
Migration and information technology
Social dimensions of mobility (e.g. gender, age, class, ethnicity, religion)
Mobility and human security
Migration regimes and migrant rights
Global environmental change and migration
Education and migration
Timetable
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Monday 30 November 2009. Please send abstracts of no more than 400 words to: Katie Willis, IDPR Co-Editor. Email: [log in to unmask]
Papers selected should be submitted by 1 May 2010 as the special issue will appear in Volume 32: Issue 4 which is due to appear in October 2010. All papers will be peer reviewed through the normal IDPR reviewing process.
Queries
For further information about IDPR see: www.idpr.org.uk. For specific queries about the special issue, please contact Katie Willis
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