We are organising a session at the AAG Annual Meeting in Tampa on onward migration and have already received full draft papers from all the presenters. Our aim is to put together a special issue and we are looking for two more papers to complete the special issue set. We are especially keen to receive papers that deal with onward migration and secondary migration within North America.
Onward migration within the EU and North America: a transatlantic perspective
Significant numbers of ‘new’ EU citizens – including those who came as asylum seekers - recently started to move from one EU country to another. Their diverse cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds have changed the social fabric of societies considerably but very little is known about this specific aspect of EU mobility, not least because these ‘newcomers’ appear as EU citizens in the statistics. From anecdotal evidence we know that the UK’s Somali, Tamil, Ghanaian and Pakistani communities include a substantial number of people who have migrated from elsewhere in Europe, but exact numbers are not available and not much is known about their motivations and the implications of their arrival for receiving societies. This special issue will examine onward movements within the European Union and compare them with similar movements between and within the US and Canada where this mobility is framed as either international or internal migration depending on whether international borders are crossed.
We welcome papers that address theoretical, methodological, political, social as well as cultural issues around onward mobility. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- conceptual issues around onward migration/secondary migration/serial migration
- statistical challenges in how to measure onward migration
- theoretical framing of internal and international mobility
- migrant’s experiences with onward migration
- policy implications of these movements for receiving, as well as sending countries in both Europe and North America
The guest editors of the special issue will be Ilse van Liempt (University of Utrecht) and Jill Ahrens (University of Sussex). Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to Jill Ahrens at [log in to unmask] before 4 April 2014. Questions or clarifications prior to abstract submission can be directed to the same email address.
Important dates:
· 4 April 2014 Deadline for submission of abstracts
· 7 April 2014 Notification of acceptance decisions
· 26 May 2014 Deadline for full draft papers for feedback from guest editors
· 16 June 2014 Deadline for final draft
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