Dear Subscribers,
You may be interested in a recent call for proposals for a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice, titled 'Echoes of the Past: The refugee crisis and European collective memory'.
Topics on which proposals might focus include:
• Links between pre-Second World War debates about refugees between states, among politicians and in the press, and similar debates today.
• Accounts of how the experiences of different refugee groups have been incorporated in European collective memory in different ways, e.g. Hungarians fleeing in 1956, Ugandan Asians, Vietnamese ‘boat people’, Bosnians and Kosovars.
• Analyses of how refugees themselves made sense of their experiences, from giving thanks to the countries that offered them refuge, to using their experiences to criticize racism and other forms of prejudice later on in their lives.
• EU policies—e.g. Frontex’s operations—and how these are (mis)understood in different European settings.
• Comparisons between Eastern and Western European collective memories and how these are made manifest in discussions in the public sphere over refugees. Why, for example, have Poland and Romania agreed to receive so few refugees from Syria, and why has Hungary rejected them altogether?
Read the full CFP here: http://bit.ly/cfp_pop
Best wishes,
Imogen Catling
Routledge Sociology Journals
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