Call for Papers: Refugee Review Volume III

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: October 7, 2016

The ESPMI Network is pleased to announce a call for submissions for the third volume of the Refugee Review. The Refugee Review, a publication of the ESPMI Network, is an open ­access, peer­ reviewed e­ journal that features a range of submission styles as contributed by scholars, practitioners, activists, and those working and studying within the field of forced migration.

To further this discussion from a more nuanced perspective, for this issue we are particularly interested in receiving submissions on the topic “Refugees and Work.” Examples of research themes: Are long­ term labour restrictions for refugees and asylum seekers legal under international law? How do refugee movements relate to and create informal labour markets? How do refugees negotiate and/or integrate into the labour market of host societies? How may the right to work be positioned for rejected asylum seekers, or those seeking refuge in countries identified as transit nodes? How may one complicate the binary between ‘economic migrant’ and ‘refugee’? In what ways do media discourses on refugees pose them as threats to working class jobs? We encourage critical perspectives that take race, class and gender into account.

The deadline for abstract submissions is October 7, 2016. Submit to: refugeereview@gmail.com.