Michigan State University will host the fifth annual graduate student research conference on migration, welcoming papers on the theme, Migration With(out) Boundaries. Migration Studies is a burgeoning and all-too-relevant area of academic attention, and the conference seeks to foster a cohort of scholars working on any thematic, conceptual, spatial, or temporal aspect of human migration from any disciplinary perspective. Submissions are welcome from academics at any stage of their graduate career, and may include research designs, dissertation or thesis chapters, methodological models, works in progress, and preliminary findings.
Dr. Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York will present a keynote address on the evening of Friday, October 21. Paper sessions will take place on Saturday, October 22. Michigan State University faculty representing the field of migration studies across numerous disciplines and departments will serve as discussants.
Abstracts Due: Friday, August 19 Acceptance Notification: September 9 Attendance Confirmation: September 23 Paper Submission: October 7
Individual Papers
Your submission must include the presentation title, abstract (of no more than 300 words), home institution and affiliated department(s), and co- authors (if applicable).
A $25 conference fee will be due upon confirmation of attendance.
Panel Submissions
Applicants are encouraged to submit a panel proposal. This will include a title and abstract for the panel as a whole, as well as individual titles and abstracts for each constituent paper.
Travel Grants: If you wish to be considered for a travel award, please provide a brief statement of need and preliminary budget with your application. Free housing is available, so travel grants are for transportation expenses only.
Email submissions and questions to:
migrationwithoutboundaries@gmail.com
Keywords: To facilitate panel selection, applicants should note 4-5 relevant keywords for their topic, selected from EACH of the categories below:
Geographic: Country/Region (ex: Morocco/MENA; USA/North America, Japan/East Asia, etc.)
Migration “type”: forced migration; internal migration; South-South migration; imperial migrations/colonization; elite migration; refugees; climate migration
Thematic: religion; transnationalism; education; health; science; class; race; ethnicity; post-colonialism; family; youth; gender; technologies of mobility; immigrant entrepreneurship; language/literature; linguistics; citizenship; policy; development; comparative migrations