International Center for Cultural Studies

People in Motion: Bridging Borders and Building Futures

2023-11-25

People in Motion: Bridging Borders and Building Futures

移動之人：連結邊界、建構未來

Conference Website:

https://sites.google.com/view/cjd-conference/

Deadline for Applications (with 250 words abstract): October 16, 2023

Conference Date: November 25, 2023

Conference Venue: Online

Submission Link: https://forms.gle/vqf3vTrPKa1mKDXU9

Conflict, Justice, Decolonization (CJD): Critical Studies of Inter-Asian Societies is pleased to invite you to submit your paper to our first conference on Migration, Refugees and Statelessness.

Throughout history and in the present day, people have constantly relocated from one place to another, driven by the pursuit of survival, improved opportunities, and a multitude of other motivations, including political, economic, and social considerations. However, recently, there has been a substantial growth in debates about migration and refugees, particularly in the context global politics and national security. Numerous ongoing migration crises have recently garnered widespread attention in the headlines. For example, the Rohingyas crisis has been a grave humanitarian situation for years. More recently, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has forced millions of Ukrainians to flee the country while millions more remain internally displaced; the war has also triggered migration waves from Russia, as hundreds of thousands flee the country to evade compulsory military service. Furthermore, it appears that in the coming years, we may encounter an even greater array of migration challenges, as forecasts suggest that by 2050, the number of climate refugees could exceed 1 billion. These influxes of migrants and refugees have sparked a fresh surge of discussions about the politics of migration, refugee protection and discrimination, and global responses to such issues.

With this call for participation, CJD is seeking contributions that engage with issues related to migration and refugee within Asia and beyond. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

Migration and Refugee Policies
Inequality in Refugee Protection and Treatment
Citizenship, Diasporas, and Statelessness
Migrant and Refugee Health Care
Sexual and Gender-based Violence against Refugees
War, Conflicts, and Forced Migration
Climate Induced Migration
The Media and Representations of Migrants and Refugees

We welcome scholars and students from various academic fields to submit their abstracts by October 16, 2023. Paper abstracts up to 250 words should be submitted by application form to the CJD conference submission link.

The selected participant should send their PowerPoint and script before the conference and the full paper should be sent after the conference to iccs.cjdproject@gmail.com. The detailed information will be informed via email.

For full paper submission, please refer the guidelines:

Abstract (the length of the abstracts should be 300–400 words in English or 450–600 characters in Mandarin), keywords (five or six), main text, references (as described below), and appendices (if applicable).
We require the selection of at least two images (one will be used as the header image of the article) for each submission. We recommend using images from Flickr or other image depository sites that are COPYRIGHT FREE (or are allowed to be used under a creative commons license with due attribution to the owner). Links to selected images should be provided with the article. You may click on this link for an exemplary CJD article.
Articles should be 2,000–3,000 words if written in English and 3,000–4,500 characters if written in Mandarin Chinese.
Reference and citation guides use the APA reference style.

Accepted participants will be given an opportunity to publish their papers in CJD 5th Booklet. Additionally, participants with a Taiwanese Bank Account will be paid 4,000 NTD for their paper. Due to university policy, only those with Taiwanese Bank Account (Chunghwa Post / E. SUN Commercial Bank) are eligible for contribution.