OBMICA and Rutgers Announce a New Deadline to Apply for the International Symposium on Deportations

April 25, 2018.- The new date is July 1, 2018, and for that reason OBMICA and the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, USA) once again invite scholars to submit their papers and be part of this "International Conference on Deportation and/in the Future of Migration Studies".

CONFERENCE DATE AND PLACE: September 19 and 20, 2018. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 1, 2018

DESCRIPTION
The first two decades of the 21st century alerted scholars and the general public to the exponential growth of deportations in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. The increase in forced repatriations from the United States during the years of President Barack Obama (2008-2016) and the intensification of anti-immigrant rhetoric and practice by the incipient Trump administration represent a visible, though by no means isolated, case study of the transformations caused by deportations in affected communities, families, and individuals. Other examples may be drawn from Europe and other parts of the world.

Renewed cross-border expulsions to Haiti (which have also prompted spontaneous returns of undocumented Haitian nationals), following the initial phase of implementation of the National Plan for the Regularization of Foreigners in Irregular Situation in the Dominican Republic, suggest that deportation is necessarily one of the dimensions of involuntary population movements in the world, of growing interest to scholars, activists, and policymakers who study movement from the North to the South and within the Global South itself.
This conference offers an opportunity for international scholars and experts on deportation from any part of the world to present their research on this phenomenon of increasing global concern.

A key dimension that the organizers seek to address is the relevance of deportation to existing and emerging paradigms in the study of human mobility. How does centering deportations change the approach to the study of migrations?

Following this international conference, a publication will be produced, made up of the key papers presented at the meeting, with the aim of contributing to the development of a new research agenda on deportations in a global world.

The conference plans to address, among others, the following thematic areas:
1. Case studies of criminalization and deportation
2. Differential impacts of deportation by ethnicity, race, and gender
3. Family formation and deportation
4. Return after deportation
5. Stigma and deportation
6. Social justice and deportations

To apply, please send a 250-word abstract of your paper, with title, to the email address indicated in the call..