Extended Deadline (March 25, 2015):

Call for Papers on Immigration and Migration

(Edited Volume of Reference Encyclopedia on Contemporary Issues and People of Color by ABC-CLIO/Greenwood)

As part of a five-volume reference encyclopedia examining contemporary issues that people of color
experience in the United States, this Call for Papers for Volume 5 focuses on immigration and
migration. This includes original essays and debate questions.
We are particularly interested in essays accessible to advanced high school and early college /
university students based on humanistic perspectives within the context of an increasingly globalized
world, where goods, services and people regularly cross international borders. Content essays will
address key issues of contemporary life in regards to economics, housing, immigration / migration,
employment and education. This AZ reference work will be useful in providing educational
information for a variety of course standards (geography, economics, history, social studies, etc.) for
campuses and academic libraries.
Types of Papers: Essays (original essays, based on new or previous research) or Debate Questions
(see below).
Length for Essays: 2,000-2,500 words.
Topics for Essays: See below topics, which are not limited to Latina/o immigrants. We are open to
alternative, immigration-related topics.
Submission Process: Submit essays with subject interest to any of the following co-editors:

Dr. Alvaro Huerta (amhuerta@cpp.edu)

Dr. Norma Iglesias-Prieto (niglesia@mail.sdsu.edu)
Dr. Donathan Brown (donathan.brown@gmail.com)

Extended Submission Deadline: March 25. 2015 (earlier submissions encouraged)

Debate Questions: Responses (1,000 to 1,500 words each) for below-mentioned questions consist of
thesis-driven subjective essays appropriate for aforementioned target audience.
1. Should the U.S. grant amnesty or legitimate pathway to citizenship to the estimated 11 million
undocumented immigrants?
2. Should the United States Congress adopt English as the national language?
3. Should the United States Congress adopt a guest-worker program?
4. What are the impacts of recent immigrants to U.S. culture / society?
5. The U.S. is considered by many scholars and others a laboratory of global migration trends;
thus, what is the Unites States' role or example in the global migration debate?
Note: While we encourage single-authors, we also accept co-authors.
Guidelines: Guidelines will be sent to contributors, upon being accepted for one or more essays.
Compensation: Writing credit and free access to the e-book for two years. Also, for each entry,
contributor receives $50 in cash or $150 in ABC-CLIO products of choice.
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Circulation of Human Capital

Citizenship and Naturalization
Criminalization and Dehumanization Processes of Migrants
Drug Cartels and Immigration
Environmental Justice and Immigration
Family Immigration
Gender and Sexuality and immigration
Globalization
Health and Immigration
Homeland Security
Human Trafficking (including sex slave trade)
Immigration Laws and Policy
Immigration Reform
Indigenous Immigrants
Labor Markets and Immigration
Language Rights, Discrimination and Immigration
Laws, Legal Debates and Immigration
Low-skilled Workers
LBGT and Immigration
Music and Immigration
Official Language Laws
Private Detention Centers
Racial Profiling and Immigrant Laws
Pathways to Citizenship
Push-pull Factors of Immigration
Re-conceptualization of Borders
Refugees (geographic origins and causation)
Remittances (Migrants as Economic Forces, etc.)
Social Movements and Immigration
Supreme Court case: Arizona v. United States
Undocumented Workers
Warfare and Immigration
Working-class and Immigration
Open for entry not listed above

(Updated as of: February 24, 2015)