Call for 3 special issues of Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana on topics related to migration and/or diaspora. Deadlines: 30 June 2025.
1. Entrepreneurship and self-employment initiatives of migrants
The vast majority of migrant people, regardless of the reason for migration or the visa they (do not) hold, face the challenge of entering the labor market. Nowadays, the number of those migrating for economic reasons, to improve their wages or ensure a dignified life for their families through remittances, remains significant. Furthermore, even among those who migrate for other reasons – such as refuge or family reunification, for example – there is always a significant segment that will need to enter the labor market. This special issue is particularly interested in focusing on the entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency initiatives of migrant workers.
2. New Brazilian diasporas (Igor José de Renó Machado and Alexandre Branco-Pereira, guest editors)
Brazil is a country shaped by multiple migratory regimes, and emigration has been one of them since the 1980s. However, something shifted in the mid-2010s. While data on Brazilian emigration remains somewhat fragmented, it points to a striking figure: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates that, by 2022, approximately 4.5 million Brazilians had left the country…If Brazilian emigration can now be regarded as the most significant migratory regime in contemporary Brazil—surpassing even the arrival of immigrants and refugees—scientific knowledge has yet to match its importance. There is relatively little academic output addressing what could be termed the “new Brazilian diasporas.” This special issue seeks to bring together studies focusing on the recent experiences of Brazilian emigration, in both traditional and emerging destinations. Its goal is to stimulate critical reflection on this phase of Brazil’s emigration history and to encourage new research on the contemporary Brazilian diaspora.
3. Migration Research: Logics, Practices, and Methodologies between Tradition and Transformation (Maria Catarina Chitolina Zanini, Yolanda López García, Asmara González Rojas, guest editors).
This issue aims to reflect on migration studies’ contemporary dynamics and histories in their academic and activist practices in knowledge production in these universes. It seeks to aggregate studies that contribute to our thinking on issues relevant to research practices, their modalities, publication, feedback, collaborative processes, and activism…To what extent can we or can we not, in a dialogue between different areas of knowledge, propose broad criteria of scientific objectivity or questions about scientificity or activism? Or even question the various forms of writing and formatting of studies. The aim is also to include studies that reflect on the ethical issues involved in producing knowledge about migrations and that present proposals for “ethical care” that encompass the different Human Sciences. Editors also wish to disseminate research that presents negotiated forms of feedback to the groups studied and studies produced and published collectively.
She began her career as an English as a second/foreign language teacher. Besides teaching refugees, immigrants, and international students in Minnesota, she also taught conversational English classes in both China and South Korea for seven years. Her experience working with international students prompted her to return to graduate school to study intercultural communication. Research during her PhD program took her back to South Korea to collect narrative data exploring the intercultural relationships between native-English-speaking teachers and Korean students in a classroom setting. This branch of her research explores how the hegemony of English has impacted foreign language classrooms. Ideological beliefs attached to English influence how cross-cultural adaptation occurs in complex and uneven ways. She has also examined perceptions of agency of English speakers within the context of English hegemony. Another branch of Elizabeth’s research is focused on intercultural communication pedagogy. She employs qualitative research to study teacher identity and students’ descriptions of intercultural learning. Deeper intercultural learning occurs through acknowledgement of dialectical tensions as students navigate cultural differences and similarities.
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