Mobility and Migration: Challenges for Development Policy,

Planning and Practice

 

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of International Development Planning Review

 

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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