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Subject: Childhood and Migration, CFP, Philadelphia, June 20-21, 2008
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Please note that the deadline for abstracts is December 15th, 2008.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Childhood & Migration: Interdisciplinary Conference 2008
Philadelphia, PA, USA
http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/
Friday, June 20th, and
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Call for Participation
Announcing our Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah
Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, the Executive Director
of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies.
Emerging Perspectives on Children in Migratory Circumstances
The Working Group on Childhood and Migration (see
http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/) will
hold its first conference in June of 2008 in Philadelphia, with support
from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Drexel University, and
Rutgers
University, Camden. At this inaugural conference, we welcome researchers
and policy advocates from all disciplines and all areas of the world
whose work focuses on the ways that increased migration affects children
and the cultural, legal, educational, medical, and psychological
perception of childhood. Please submit a 200 to 300 word abstract for an
individual paper proposal in the body of an email to
rrr@drexel.edu by December
15th. Notification of acceptance
will be by January 10th. Conference
website is available at:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dtd28/GlobalChild/index1.htm
The way that world migration affects children?s lives is
complex and multi-faceted. Studies of children in migratory
circumstances
cross multiple areas of the world and multiple areas of concern for
researchers, policy makers and direct service workers. Moreover, larger
public concerns alter children?s lives, concerns like immigration visa
policies, media representations of child labor, and changing educational
systems. Migratory families also undergo unique private concerns over
problems like the quality of substitute care and communication with
loved
ones across long distances. Holistic or at least less partial glimpses
of
these children?s lives therefore must cross-cut the disciplines of law,
political science, sociology, anthropology, demography, psychology,
education, economics, communication, humanities and the arts. And yet,
within academe researchers tend to communicate only with those in the
same discipline or in the same geographical region. Thus, the June 2008
conference will provide a venue to share data, methodologies, and
theories regardless of discipline, with a focus directly on how children
fare under conditions of migration. Additionally, we want to create
cross-disciplinary synergy by bringing together junior and senior
research-active faculty internationally committed to developing new
research avenues on childhood and migration.
To frame our approach to child-centered understanding of childhood and
migration, we consider childhood to be centrally important to grasping
the effect that increased (and increasingly visible) world migration has
on social and household reproduction. As a result, the following
questions are important in guiding researchers abstracts for the
conference:
--Are children?s development and maturation processes significantly
affected by migration experiences, and if so, how deleterious or
beneficial are they? Is a migration-associated childhood now something
normative, and what does that kind of childhood look like?
--How are children?s rights and the notion of children as citizens
affected by transnationalism, or by movement of parents and children in
and out of various national legal systems?
--What are the emotional consequences of family separation across
migratory families, especially for children?
--What are children?s perspectives on migration, how are they to be
elicited, how well can they be elicited and represented, and what can
these perspectives tell us about socialization and processes of
maturation in transnational families?
--How is migration shaping any given culture group?s notions of
childhood, and how are cultural notions of childhood shaping migration?
--What are general and specific manifestations of notions of childhood
under global economic change? For example, how do remittances affect
expectations for children?s scholastic achievement? How do remittances
which elevate families into higher classes affect children?s social
development? How are attitudes toward child labor changing with
increased
international migration?
--How do media and policy makers represent children in migration and how
do discourses about immigrant children and migrant parents affect their
lives and experiences?
--What can we do to generate better quantitative and qualitative data on
the effects that migration has on children? What are the numbers of
migrant children and how are they best defined as children in their own
rights?
The conference will run two days, June 20, and 21, at Drexel University
in downtown Philadelphia. Philadelphia is accessible from Philadelphia
International (PHL), Newark International (EWR) and
Baltimore-Washington,
D.C. (BWI) airports. Philadelphia is two hours from New York City and
Washington D.C. by train. Limited funding for travel and/or
accommodations in Philadelphia is available for graduate students and
international scholars (please indicate your interest with your abstract
submission). We anticipate publishing selected papers in a conference
volume.
Conference includes buffet breakfasts, and a lunch and a dinner on one
day. Conference pre-registration fees will be U.S. $30.00 for tenured
and
tenure-track professors and U.S. $20.00 for all others. For
pre-registration rate, please register by February 1, 2007. Registration
on site will be $40.00.
Contact Rachel Reynolds
rrr@drexel.edu phone 215-895-0498, or
Cati Coe ccoe@camden.rutgers.edu
phone 856-225-6455, for more information.
Conference website is available at:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dtd28/GlobalChild/index1.htm
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Heather Rae-Espinoza, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-1602
hre@csulb.edu
Office: (562) 985-4209
Fax: (562) 985-4237
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Please note that the deadline for abstracts is December 15th, 2008.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Childhood & Migration: Interdisciplinary Conference 2008
Philadelphia, PA, USA
http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/
Friday, June 20th, and Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Call for Participation
Announcing our Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah
Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, the Executive
Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies.
Emerging Perspectives on Children in Migratory Circumstances
The Working Group on Childhood and Migration (see http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/)
will hold its first conference in June of 2008 in Philadelphia, with
support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Drexel University,
and Rutgers University, Camden. At this inaugural conference, we
welcome researchers and policy advocates from all disciplines and all
areas of the world whose work focuses on the ways that increased
migration affects children and the cultural, legal, educational,
medical, and psychological perception of childhood. Please submit a
200 to 300 word abstract for an individual paper proposal in the body
of an email to rrr@drexel.edu by December 15th. Notification of
acceptance will be by January 10th. Conference website is available
at: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dtd28/GlobalChild/index1.htm
The way that world migration affects children's lives is complex and
multi-faceted. Studies of children in migratory circumstances cross
multiple areas of the world and multiple areas of concern for
researchers, policy makers and direct service workers. Moreover,
larger public concerns alter children's lives, concerns like
immigration visa policies, media representations of child labor, and
changing educational systems. Migratory families also undergo unique
private concerns over problems like the quality of substitute care and
communication with loved ones across long distances. Holistic or at
least less partial glimpses of these children's lives therefore must
cross-cut the disciplines of law, political science, sociology,
anthropology, demography, psychology, education, economics,
communication, humanities and the arts. And yet, within academe
researchers tend to communicate only with those in the same discipline
or in the same geographical region. Thus, the June 2008 conference
will provide a venue to share data, methodologies, and theories
regardless of discipline, with a focus directly on how children fare
under conditions of migration. Additionally, we want to create cross-
disciplinary synergy by bringing together junior and senior research-
active faculty internationally committed to developing new research
avenues on childhood and migration.
To frame our approach to child-centered understanding of childhood and
migration, we consider childhood to be centrally important to grasping
the effect that increased (and increasingly visible) world migration
has on social and household reproduction. As a result, the following
questions are important in guiding researchers abstracts for the
conference:
--Are children's development and maturation processes significantly
affected by migration experiences, and if so, how deleterious or
beneficial are they? Is a migration-associated childhood now something
normative, and what does that kind of childhood look like?
--How are children's rights and the notion of children as citizens
affected by transnationalism, or by movement of parents and children
in and out of various national legal systems?
--What are the emotional consequences of family separation across
migratory families, especially for children?
--What are children's perspectives on migration, how are they to be
elicited, how well can they be elicited and represented, and what can
these perspectives tell us about socialization and processes of
maturation in transnational families?
--How is migration shaping any given culture group's notions of
childhood, and how are cultural notions of childhood shaping migration?
--What are general and specific manifestations of notions of childhood
under global economic change? For example, how do remittances affect
expectations for children's scholastic achievement? How do remittances
which elevate families into higher classes affect children's social
development? How are attitudes toward child labor changing with
increased international migration?
--How do media and policy makers represent children in migration and
how do discourses about immigrant children and migrant parents affect
their lives and experiences?
--What can we do to generate better quantitative and qualitative data
on the effects that migration has on children? What are the numbers of
migrant children and how are they best defined as children in their
own rights?
The conference will run two days, June 20, and 21, at Drexel
University in downtown Philadelphia. Philadelphia is accessible from
Philadelphia International (PHL), Newark International (EWR) and
Baltimore-Washington, D.C. (BWI) airports. Philadelphia is two hours
from New York City and Washington D.C. by train. Limited funding for
travel and/or accommodations in Philadelphia is available for graduate
students and international scholars (please indicate your interest
with your abstract submission). We anticipate publishing selected
papers in a conference volume.
Conference includes buffet breakfasts, and a lunch and a dinner on one
day. Conference pre-registration fees will be U.S. $30.00 for tenured
and tenure-track professors and U.S. $20.00 for all others. For pre-
registration rate, please register by February 1, 2007. Registration
on site will be $40.00.
Contact Rachel Reynolds rrr@drexel.edu phone 215-895-0498, or Cati Coe ccoe@camden.rutgers.edu
phone 856-225-6455, for more information.
Conference website is available at: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dtd28/GlobalChild/index1.htm
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Heather Rae-Espinoza, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-1602
hre@csulb.edu
Office: (562) 985-4209
Fax: (562) 985-4237
click to give...
http://www.thechildhealthsite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=5
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