CALL FOR PAPERS
Linking Migration and Social Policy
Deadline for submission of articles:
April 1, 2014
For the focused topic on “Linking migration and social policy” in the journal “Transnational Social Review – A Social Work Journal” (TSR), the guest editors Eberhard Raithelhuber and Wolfgang Schröer hereby invite you to submit proposal abstracts.
Research Interest
Migration and social policy are treated as two strands of study which for the most part are not linked systematically. This is true though both are strongly connected to and regulated through the nation state and related institutions, e.g. in their everyday boundary work, above all with regard to the institution of citizenship. Sensational stories in the public discourse of Western welfare states, e.g. on the “abuse” of social security systems by internationally mobile people, reflect the strong but differential ties between the two issues – ties that are both fabricated and highly contested not only in political practice, but also in everyday social work and in related areas.
Recently, in an era of intensified globalization, transnationalization and mobility, the “old” modes of welfare regulation have started to change crucially, which is also true for migration policy, while all of this generates “spillover” effects on the future of social work and related fields of theory, research and practice. We believe that looking closely and simultaneously at the point where migration and social policy meet helps us to gain a better and more nuanced understanding how each of the two fields operates and how both develop jointly. In a broader perspective, changes in migration policy and in social welfare policy have been theorized and researched with regard to their impacts on citizenship, especially by researchers viewing social rights as a dependent variable of status within a national framework. Thus, both the negotiation of citizenship (especially for migrants with precarious status) and the lived citizenship reflected in the experiences of migrants, frontline workers or public agents are becoming important areas of interest. Nevertheless, only a small number of researchers make a strong link between changes in citizenship and welfare regulation on the one hand and migration on the other, taking into account their simultaneous interrelatedness to a number of processes on multiple scales. In this respect it is challenging, but also promising to reconstruct the frames, layers and trans-national contexts of these social and political regulations of migration and welfare policies. This complex perspective is yet to be explored, although some encouraging work has already been done. Seen in this light the question has to be asked of how these social policies and related translation processes construct migration, and – vice versa – how migration and related policies construct social policy.
Therefore, we are looking for contributions that shed light on the myriad ways in which migration and social policy are interrelated based on concrete examples that are relevant to social work and related fields of study. Abstracts are invited for original articles including theoretical reviews, conceptual contributions and empirical research responding to (but not limited to) the following questions:
- How are migration-related ideas, images and concepts (e.g. categorizations) employed or rendered relevant or irrelevant in concrete social policy measures and practices, e.g. in the context of human service provision, and – vice versa – how are social policy-related ideas, images and concepts engendered in migration policy, including policy measures and practices?
- How and how far do practices in social work bring about concrete, practical forms of migration policy and – vice versa – how do practices in migration and migration policy generate and impact on concrete forms of social work and social policy?
- How are migration and migration policy linked to the formation of and changes in national and transnational social policy (and related institutions and practices) and how are concrete social practices in social work and related areas informed by migration policy?
- How are these specific links between migration and social policy (e.g. in the context of temporary worker programs) as well as related practices in social work and welfare disturbed by the sometimes unexpected self-images, self-positionings and actions of migrants and mobile people, including their self-organizations and supporters, and how do they react towards them?
- How is knowledge in social policy created through the cross-border migration of people and ideas, and – vice versa – how does the development and employment of social policy shape knowledge in respectively on migration?
Submission Requirements
The guest editors welcome the submission of contributions. The deadline for submission of full articles is April 1, 2014. The following table contains all deadlines and the time schedule of the focused topic on “Linking Migration and Social Policy.”
April 1, 2014 Submission of articles
June 15, 2014 Peer review
July 15, 2014 Revision of articles; if necessary
July 21 2014 Final submission of publishable articles to Routledge
September 22, 2014 Online publication date
October 1, 2014 Print publication date
Articles are to be up to 8,000 words in length and authors are required to include an abstract of up to 150 words and up to six keywords, suitable for indexing and online search purposes. The authors are responsible for submitting proof-read and formatted articles. For the manuscript preparation please use the style sheet and the formatting guideline, which are available at: www.tss.uni-mainz.de/103.php.
Contact
Inquiries and all proposals should be sent to the guest editors of the focused topic on “Linking Migration and Social Policy:”
Dr. Eberhard Raithelhuber Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schröer
University of Trier (until March 31, 2014)
Institute of Education
Private Address:
Gaisbergstrasse 10
69115 Heidelberg
University of Hildesheim
Institute of Social Work and Organization Studies
Marienburger Platz 22
31141 Hildesheim
Germany
Germany
Mobile: +49 151 20727528
eberhard.raithelhuber@gmx.de
Phone: +49 5121 883552
schroeer@rz.uni-hildesheim.de
Concept and Objective of the Journal TSR
“Transnational Social Review – A Social Work Journal” is a peer-reviewed journal that offers an international forum to discuss social work and related disciplines and professions from a transnational perspective. It responds to the challenges resulting from the increasing impact of transnational social, political, economic, and cultural processes and structures upon social work. The journal aims to open up and develop social work and related fields on a transnational level. Its main objective is to improve prospects for making the concept of transnationalism part of the knowledge structure and practice, in order to extend and transform the legitimation, concepts, research, and methods which to date are primarily nationally focused.
Frequency and Structure of the Journal TSR
TSR appears three times a year, guided by an international team of editors and board members at Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group in the United Kingdom. The journal pursues an interdisciplinary approach and fits the criteria of the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). All articles undergo rigorous peer reviews, based on initial editor screening and anonymous reviews by two or more referees to ensure the high quality of the journal. TSR is available online as well as in print. Its main publishing language is English but the online version offers the option to include versions of the contributions in the language in which they are originally written. Each issue consists of a cluster of articles focusing on a certain topic as well as general articles and book reviews. Additionally, the online version includes an openaccess section containing brief, up-to-date reports on research, teaching, social policies, practices and everyday life concerning the transnational worlds of social work.
2014 Issues
- 1/2014 Religion and Social Work – Transnational Perspectives (call closed)
- 2/2014 Social Services and Transnationality (call closed)
- 3/2014 Linking Migration and Social Policy
Download individual articles from each issue: http://www.tandfonline.com/rtsr
For any question regarding the journal, visit our website or contact our Journal Manager: Claudia Olivier, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute of Education, 55099 Mainz, Germany, phone: +49 (0)6131 39-20794, email: tss@uni-mainz.de, TSR website: http://www.tsr-journal.com.