The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge) announce the Call for Papers on Diaspora and Migration: Rethinking African Development in the 21st Century.

Read the call for papers

Some issues to address:

• ‘brain drain’,
• increasing social and economic inequality,
• support for warring parties in the origin-country,
• the role of transnational institutions,
• the particularities of postcolonial African states,
• new models of citizenship,
• transnationalism in the histories of contemporary African migrations within Africa and beyond,
• the affective dimensions of migration and diaspora (homesickness, memory, nostalgia, melancholy).

Prospective contributors are invited to send proposals for articles in the form of a 200-word abstract by October 31, 2011. Authors of accepted proposals will be asked to submit articles in final form (in English) by April 30, 2012.

Source: OSSREA