CFP: Ethnoscapes Spring 2008

Call for Papers

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context

Issue Two, Spring 2008
�Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship�

The editorial staff for the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary
Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context invites submissions for its
second issue on the subject of �Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship.�
Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the field of race and
ethnic studies by using a �classic� piece as a point of departure for a reconsideration
of critical issues within the contemporary economic, political, and cultural terrain.

While the classic piece establishes the thematic parameters of each issue, authors
are under no obligation to actively engage the arguments posed by that work.

Issue two explores the subject of "Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship"
with consideration of the chapter "The Shock of Alienation" from Oscar Handlin's
ground-breaking The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made
the American People. In this chapter, Handlin investigates the relationships between
labor, cultural membership, citizenship, and the production of racial difference. Citing
violence against Chinese and Filipino immigrants in the early 19th century, he details
the ways in which labor tensions in the US were integral to the establishment of
federal anti-immigration policy aimed at these "unassimilable" groups. According to
Handlin, cultural variation and poverty status became the criteria used to infer an
ostensibly inherent racial inferiority that served as the basis for denying Chinese and
Filipino immigrants the rights and protections that accompanied citizenship.

While labor, cultural membership, and race remain central components of the current
complexities of immigration, new concerns have emerged since the 1951 publication
of Handlin's Pulitzer Prize-winning history. On one hand, new signs of deterritorialization�
the increasing incidence of dual citizenship, home-country remittances, expatriate
involvement in home-country politics, and "diasporic" community-building�have led
some to assert the declining relevance of the nation-state as a primary attachment and
the declining significance of citizenship itself. On the other, debates and policy
developments around immigration and citizenship suggest that the nation-state's power
to regulate the movement of labor and capital within and across borders is far from
obsolete. In particular, state power continues to have a profound impact on racialized
disparities, processes of racialization, and on the burdens and benefits of citizenship.
In this new context, we are compelled to reconsider the nature of transnational migration,
the nature of citizenship, the link between the two, and the role of race in mediating that link.

To this end, the �Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship� issue of Ethnoscapes
seeks manuscripts that investigate: A) Economic Flows, Migration, and Racialized
Disparities How is migration racialized/ethnicized and gendered? What is the relationship
between late capitalist economic operations, migration, and racialized disparities in
health, education, self determination and representation, and wealth? In what ways do
�citizenship gaps��spaces in which market participation forecloses political membership�
re/produce racialized disparities globally?

B) Borders, Boundaries, and �The Nation�
How is immigration policy racialized? What is/should be the current role of the nation-state
in generating policy that regulates the movement of wealth and people across borders and
in regulating resultant disparities? What forms of regulation/governance that exceed the
nation-state can be conceptualized? What role does cultural nationalism play in political
membership? What transnational forms of political and cultural membership are/can be
imagined?

C) Processes of Racialization
In what ways are immigrant populations affecting domestic racial hierarchies and racial
identities? How are transnational cultural flows affecting conceptualizations of race and
ethnicity? Their relationship to nation?

The deadline for manuscript submission is March 2, 2007. Please send submissions to
mmaltry@kirwaninstitute.org
<http://webmail.kirwaninstitute.org/src/compose.php?send_to=mmaltry%40kirwan
institute.org>  and editors@kirwaninstitute.org
<http://webmail.kirwaninstitute.org/src/compose.php?send_to=editors%40kirwan
institute.org> . See http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/ethnoscapes/styleguide.html to prepare
your document in accordance with the style guidelines of Ethnoscapes.

Melanie Maltry
Assistant Editor, Ethnoscapes
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Ohio State University