CONVOCATORIA 2023
Revista Euro Latinoamericana de Análisis Social y Político (RELASP)
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION CONTEXTS.
CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACY
Since 2010, international migration has seen a significant increase in the world, the conflicts and challenges that have arisen have been recorded, in images by the media worldwide, highlighting the systematic violation of human rights along the migration routes: the deaths in the Mediterranean, the refugees in Greece and Italy, the forced displacements in sub-Saharan Africa, Ukraine and Syria, and the border controls at the southern of Mexico are some of the cases that today illustrate the so-called "migration crisis". The political response of democracy, focused on strengthening border controls, has been to establish strong border controls, which has led to the criminalization of migration, causing violence and attempts on the human rights of the migrant population.
In this way, the desire to achieve equality and dignity of life, which the democratic discourse implies, has revealed omissions and disappointment, specifically, migrations have led to a strong conflict between the state, international responsibility, and the practices of civil society, which have shown, on the one side, the increase of violence and, on the other, the creation of networks to face the conjunctural problems.
In the emerging third decade of the 21st century, it can be argued that studies on migration in consolidated democracies are not an exhausted topic, and in the middle of globalization, represent an important challenge for the social sciences to understand the complex scenarios and increasing polarization, which are occurring, as well of those that will emerge in the coming years.
The significant increase of migrants with multiple citizenships, intercultural and gender identities, sexual orientation, refugees, displaced persons, the stateless persons, unaccompanied minors, and migrant women are substantially important to understand that within the migratory processes there are groups that present greater vulnerability and marginalization, which evidences the need to include gender and citizenship, in migration policies, with the purpose of consolidating human rights.
This Dossier on International Migratory Contexts. Challenges and Perspectives on Contemporary Democracy pursues to analyze the interaction between democracy, migration, and citizenship with the aim of debating their relationship in political systems and social movements, through the media, education, citizenship, labor, social classes, feminisms, i.e., from any perspective of the social sciences.
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Coordination:
Elizabeth Amador Márquez (México-Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas)
Paula Alexandra Carvalho de Figueiredo (Portugal-Universidade Aberta de Lisboa/Universidad de Guanajuato)
Close of call:
First semester of 2023.
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