Migrantólogos

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