Call for Papers for an edited volume
Edited by Mary Romero and Jodie Lawston
Despite the fact that immigration stories are increasingly featured in U.S. popular media discourse and an immigrant justice movement continues to strengthen, little scholarship has focused on the experiences of immigrants and their families, and especially, families who are mixed status in that they are comprised of both citizens and noncitizens. This edited volume aims to examine the experiences of immigrants and mixed status families in terms of work and education, raids, deportations, and detention, and resistance toward anti-immigrant sentiment. We welcome and encourage work that examines not just the experiences of immigrants in the U.S., but the experiences of immigrants around the globe.
The questions we are interested in exploring include but are not restricted to the following: What forms of work do immigrant women engage in to support their families? What are the struggles of undocumented students? How do raids, deportations, and detention affect families? How do such phenomena affect mixed status families? What are the experiences of immigrants, particularly women and children, in detention? How have changes in laws affected undocumented immigrants and their children? What strategies have justice movements used to protect undocumented men, women, and children? How are countries around the world approaching immigration and undocumented immigration, and how does that compare to U.S. policies? We seek explorations and answers to these questions that engage notions of gender, race and ethnicity, place, and culture as well as documentation and analysis of leadership and activism.
The following topical areas broadly outline the subject matter that we see as most relevant to this volume. These can be used as starting points for papers, but authors are not restricted to them:
* The effects of detention on immigrant families, particularly in separating those families
* The impact of family reunification
* The intersection of work and immigration status
* The effects of immigration status on students
* The effects of raids and/or deportations on families
* Changes in laws and resulting effects on immigrants’ lives
* Immigrant justice work
* Comparative studies of issues related to immigration in different parts of the world
* The intersections of race, class, gender, and with immigration status
We are interested in both academic papers and testimonies from immigrant women on the above topics.
Editors: Mary Romero, Professor, Arizona State University, Justice and Social Inquiry
Jodie Lawston, Assistant Professor, California State University San Marcos, Women’s Studies
Submission Process: Proposals for academic papers or testimonies, no longer than three pages, should be emailed to Jodie Lawston at jlawston@csusm.edu by Wednesday June 15, 2011. Author(s) must include all identifying information on the proposal, including name, title, institutional affiliation, address, phone numbers, and email. After the deadline, we will review proposals and contact authors as to which manuscripts we are interested in reviewing for the book. Proposals must include the subject matter of the paper, methods used for your analysis, and the argument you plan to make based on your data.
Feel free to contact Jodie Lawston (jlawston@csusm.edu) with any questions or concerns about the submission process.
DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS: June 15, 2011 to
Jodie Lawston at jlawston@csusm.edu