The Migration Conference, 2019
Universidad Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
https://www.migrationconference.net/?page_id=474
We are used to studying international migrants mainly as the male breadwinner and, in general, as labor migrants who go from South to North to improve their material conditions. We have ignored migrant’s children and youth who crossed borders with their parents. Socializing in the north seems to structure a different profile of the traditional migrant population. The young migrants who were taken as children to the Global North (United States, The European Union, etc.), who grew up and socialized in those countries, and who are either blocked in hostile host societies or returning to places of origin such as Mexico, Turkey, Maghreb, etc. representing, some sort of migration from North to South, from countries where they culturally belong, to countries they formally belong.
These young people are forced to rebuild their lives in social environments that, in general, are hostile to them socially, culturally and economically. It is true that they have an urgency to generate conditions of material reproduction once back in their formal countries of origin, but they also need to rebuild their structural connection with people, families, culture, communities, and government. These are young people with multiple belongings and composite identities that have a -not always recognized- very important personal, social, cultural, and human capital.
Therefore, we are interested in organizing specialized panels discussing the following issues (list is not exhaustive) focusing on youth migration in the following areas:
- Identities,
- National belongings,
- compound identities,
- multiple belongings,
- labor problems,
- Recovering of Citizenship
- Double Citizenship
- assimilation,
- transnationalization,
- cosmopolitanism,
- Social Cohesion,
- Social Movements,
- Dreamers,
- Young Migrants that have been Deported,
- Young Migrants that have Returned voluntarily,
- Young Migrants Residents abroad,
- impacts on community development,
- Transnational Social Resilience,
- Social Networks
- Political Organization
- Diaspora
- Education Policy
- Religion
- Returnees / Deportees reinsertion policies
- Mental Health
- Health Policies
- Social Policies directed to Young Migrants
- Measuring Return Migration in Census and other National Surveys
The best papers would be invited to become book chapters in a specialized book, so I am proposing a year and a half – long working agenda that will use the following schedule:
Abstract proposal to TMC, 2019 January 31, 2019
Notice of acceptance February 28, 2019
Conference Full-paper April 15, 2019
Conference June 18-20, 2019
Send me full book chapter August 31, 2019
Peer-Review Results October 15, 2019
Corrected Chapter submission December 15, 2019
Editor’s final feedback to authors January, 30, 2020
Final Revised version submitted March 1, 2020
Proof copies sent do authors April 1, 2020
Proofreading and Final Checks April 25, 2020
Book Published June 2020
Book Launch TMC, 2020
Please, do not hesitate on contacting me in case you have any doubt,
Ana Vila Freyer, PhD
Universidad Latina de México,
Email: ana6509@yahoo.com