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Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration is seeking submissions for its upcoming issue on Return Migration.
African migration has often been explored in the context of the factors that generate migratory flows from the continent: political instability, environmental calamity, and desire for economic justice. This issue of Ìrìnkèrindò will explore the reversal of this migratory path, looking at the factors that bring members of the African diaspora back to the continent.
We seek submissions of articles, book and film reviews, and creative pieces that critically explore the complexity of the homecoming experience and speak to these and other questions:
· What are the causes and consequences of return migration?
· How does return migration impact the changing narrative and positionality of people in the African diaspora, African nations, and the continent as a whole?
· How does return migration conform with or challenge the notions of Afro-pessimism and the 'Hopeless Continent' versus their counterparts, including Afro-optimism and 'Africa Rising'?
· How, if at all, does return migration contribute to the forging of a new pan-African identity, culture, and so forth?
· Does return migration help construct different imaginaries of the West (and other sites of opportunity/desire)? If so, what, are these different/new imaginaries? What are their social, cultural, and political significance?
Articles must be original and should not be under consideration by another publication at the time of submission. All submissions should be emailed to mojubaolu@gmail.com by September 20, 2013. Articles should be between 20-25 pages long. They should be accessible and jargon-free. All submissions will be independently refereed. Accepted articles must conform to Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration style requirements. Please see submission guidelines: http://www.africamigration.com/
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Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration provides a forum for scholarly articles of the highest quality. The journal will document the relevance of African immigration to the world's social, political and economic systems as well as its historical effects on culture; it will respond to the debates on immigration and problematize its assumed effects. It will also generate debate among scholars and intellectuals of African immigration, and migration demographers, and African immigrants and themselves. In publishing original essays, reprints of hard to find essays, critical commentaries, book reviews, and interviews of African immigrants, Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration will create a forum for scholars and analysts of African immigration and migration as well as activists throughout the world to participate in debates, exchanges of ideas, and the creation and documentation of knowledge.
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