Call for Papers! Migrant Asia: International Conference on Migrants in the Making of Asia! Submit Now!

Call for Papers! Migrant Asia: International Conference on Migrants in the Making of Asia! Submit Now!

  • Conference dates: April 23-25, 2025
  • Venue: Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok
  • Organized by: EMMIR/CRG/CGFD

The Asian continent covers one third of the globe and is home to almost 60% of the world’s population. With its complex colonial histories and webs of migrations, its connectivity and as well as its disconnects, histories of bitter divides and welcoming accommodations, Asia constitutes multiple utopias and dystopias. It is a continent of origins, transits and destinations with myriad regimes of power and border regimes where people, ideas, goods and commodities, capital and labour were and are constantly on the move; migrants and refugees, stateless and internally displaced populations in millions, Asia is quintessentially a space of mixed and massive flows. 

All of these dimensions make migration inevitable in Asia: Asia is the continent of migrants and to understand Asia one needs to understand migration. We expect the following panels: 

  • War, coloniality, geopolitics and migration

  • Ecological marginalities and mobility

  • Gendered intersections and migrant women

  • Revisiting migration and the pandemic

  • Migrants and logistical Asia

  • Rapid urbanisation, formation of burgeoning cities and migration

  • Inter-Asia migrant cultures

  • Protection regimes in Asia

Call for papers

We especially encourage young scholars from the Global South to submit abstracts of original papers (500 words) to the conference incl. bio notes (300 words). Please indicate for which panel you apply. Deadline: July 30, 2024. Decisions will be communicated by October 15, 2024.

Accepted presenters are asked to submit their full papers (8000 words) by March 31, 2025. The conference organisers retain the first right of refusal for the final paper. A conference publication is planned.

Important dates

  • Call for abstracts published: 19 May 2024

  • Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 July 2024

  • Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 October 2024

  • Award of travel grants: 15 November 2024

  • Start of visa procedures: 30 November 2024

  • Publication of conference programme, incl. abstracts & bio notes: 15 December 2024

  • Deadline for submission of full papers: 31 March 2025

For more details, refer here

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