IEMC 2018

Call for Papers

Eurasia Migration Conference (EMC)

9-13 October 2018, Turkistan / Kazakhstan

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to Eurasia Migration Conference (EMC). The conference will be co-hosted by Istanbul Medeniyet University (Istanbul/Turkey) and Ahmet Yesevi University (Turkistan/Kazakhstan) and it will convene on 09-13 October 2018 in Turkistan/Kazakhstan.

This truly international world congress of Migration Studies creates a forum where scholars, experts, young researchers and students, practitioners and policy makers are encouraged to exchange knowledge, share research and debate the issues that challenge existing modes and models of migration, discourses to understand human mobility, ponder about better policies and practices.

International Eurasian Migration Conference (IEMC) is an international peer-reviewed academic event dedicated to a thorough analyses of The Eurasian geography that has witnessed numerous migration flows throughout the history.

Eurasia Migration Conference (IEMC) conference is unique in its dynamic, complex and multidisciplinary approach and focus on migration and surrounding issues, challenges and solutions to them.

The scientific programme organizes papers around thematic lines and streams weaved around regions, corridors, country cases as well as global and regional perspectives and theoretical takes on human mobility and population movements with all facets covered from motivations and mechanisms of migration to policies and integration, to irregular movements and demographic and geographic analysis without ignoring the non-movers, host and sending societies.

The conference accommodates training workshops, public round-table discussions, invited talks, oral presentations, poster presentations, special sessions and thematic workshops. The conference will also entertain keynote speeches by distinguished scholars in migration studies.

Participants in the conference also have the opportunity to submit their work to special issues of the journals of Journal of Civilization Studies and Journal of Medeniyet Politics, as well as opportunities to contribute to the edited books published by Istanbul Medeniyet University Press.

The official languages of the conference are English, Russian, Turkish and Kazakh.

Submissions of papers and posters are welcome from scholars, experts, practitioners, policy makers and PhD students carrying out research in the field of migration.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Papers submitted to the EMC will be reviewed by the Conference Committee/Track chairs/Chairs. Submission will be subjected to the double blind peer-review by at least two referees in terms of assessing their scientific quality, style and presentation. Reviewers are assigned by the track chairs.

You need to submit your abstract and/or full paper before the deadline to the email address: malikyavuz@medeniyet.edu.tr, using the application form below.

: https://migrationsymposium.med...

Please check submission guidelines before submitting your abstract via the link:

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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline: 01.06.2018

Notification of Acceptance: 01.07.2018

Registration: 01.09.2018

Announcement of the Conference Program: 30.09.2018

REGISTRATION

Registration Fees:   Registration is free.

Registration closes at  01.09.2018

CONFERENCE TOPICS

The Eurasian Migration Conference would expect to bring together practitioners, academics, and students from a broad range of disciplines including

• anthropology,
• demography,
• economics,
• law,
• psychology,
• sociology,
• history,
• geography,
• business and management,
• public administration,
• linguistics,
• development studies,
• health sciences,
• political science,
• international relations,
• media and communications,
• and other cognate disciplines with a focus on human mobility .

Inter-disciplinary research and comparative perspectives are particularly encouraged. The Eurasian Migration Conference features invited talks, parallel and special sessions, workshops, and policy sessions where practitioners, politicians and media representatives will discuss migration and related issues. There will be opportunities for side-events and social activities.

Please check conference topics below to identify the appropriate track or submit to general papers track, so the organizers can assign your paper to a suitable session.

The Eurasian Migration Conference will cover a wide range of multidisciplinary areas, including

• dynamics and patterns of human mobility,
• legal and regulatory frameworks,
• labour market outcomes,
• education and human capital,
• brain drain and brain circulation,
• short term migrations,
• migrant integration,
• specific diasporas, such as of Turks, Chinese, Africans, Syrians, Indians, South Asians,
• culture, art, media  and migration,
• health and well-being of migrants,
• internal and international migration nexus,
• migrant experiences,
• mobile minorities,
• transnationals,
• nomads, Gypsies, Romanis,
• methodology in migration research,
• migration theory,
• Migration law and policy,
• Migrants and migration in the literature,
• diasporas,
• borderlands,
• remittances and irregularity,
• women studies and migration,
• the cost of migration,
• transnational space and transnationalism,
• political participation and conflicts,
• attitudes and policies towards migration and migrants.
• passport geographies
• culture of migration
• departures, destinations, arrivals, transit
• migrant and refugee children
• human trafficking and irregular migration
• retirees and elderly migration
• transnational and multicultural practices
• religion and religious communities
• minority diasporas
• Data and methods in migration research
• multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism
• refugees and burden sharing
• migration management
• Syrian and Iraqi migration and refugees
• Migration history
• Migration issue in international relations,
• Economic effects of migration
• migrant consumers and consumption
• social, cultural, and political networks
• migrant associations
• new generations in diaspora
• Circassians, Bosnians,
• Population Exchange
• global cities
• Africans in Turkey
• Balkan migrants
• seasonal migrant workers
• forced migration
• discrimination, xenophobia, migration and inequalities
• anti-immigration policies and politics,
• gender roles and sexuality

If you have any questions please do contact us at: malikyavuz@medeniyet.edu.tr

We look forward to seeing you in Istanbul and Turkistan!

On behalf of the Conference Committee Hamza Ates, Ahmet Cihan, Mehmet Toplu