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Call for Chapters
Editor
Falendra Kumar Sudan (Ph.D), Professor, Department of Economics, University of Jammu, India
Email: [email protected]
Call for Chapters
Proposals Submission Deadline: June 4, 2019
Full Chapters Due: October 2, 2019
Submission Date: March 7, 2020
Introduction
In 2017, 65% of the 258 million immigrants worldwide resided in twenty developed countries. About 40% of immigrants came from 10 countries. The United States was the main single destination country of new immigrants in 2017 (2.5 million new permanent and temporary immigrants). The total number of first permits granted to third-country nationals in the European Union reached 3.4 million in 2016. There were 1.7 million asylum seekers in 2017 worldwide, of which 1.3 million were in G20 countries and a third of all refugees were living in these countries and 3.6 million international students were enrolled in tertiary education in the G20. Most immigrants in developed countries are in employment compared to 64% of the native-born. Immigrants and refugees are not able to fully utilize their skills and one third of migrants are overqualified for their jobs. Not only this, immigrant workers are more likely to be in non-standard employment. The labour market integration of refugees takes time. Therefore, governments, in collaboration with worker and employer organizations, should design and implement employment policies that support labour market inclusion and job creation for both national and immigrant workers at all skill and competency levels. It is essential to improve the management of regular migration pathways for both immigrants moving primarily for work, study or family reasons and those in need of international protection for which the developed countries have an important role to play in addressing these challenges and making the most out of migration. The traditional settlement countries such as Australia and Canada have developed sophisticated merit-based migration systems. Countries which manage labour immigration mostly through temporary immigration schemes have usually adopted systems where a job offer is necessary for immigrant workers.
Europe has been struggling to cope with a large-scale influx of immigrants and there have been divisions within the European Union (EU) over how best to support refugees. Refugees enter Europe through Mediterranean regions, a journey that carries significant risks. In 2017, more than 2,600 refugees and migrants died or went missing in the Mediterranean, 94% of them were trying to cross from Libya to Italy. In 2016, the number of first time asylum applicants in the EU from Syria fell to 335,000 from 363,000 in 2015; the share of Syrians dropped from 28.9% to 27.8%. Afghanis accounted for 15% and Iraqis for 11% of the total number of applicants. In terms of countries of destinations in Europe, the largest groups go to Germany, Italy and France. The refugee crisis has created a disproportionate burden on some countries and more collaboration at the EU level is needed to coordinate their integration. Newly emerging poles of attraction for migrants and refugees such as Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Turkey can benefit from the experience of other G20 member states.
In all cases, the skill dimension of migration and refugees governance becomes critical in maximizing benefits for immigrants and refugees, as well as for sending or host communities. Efficient matching of demand for skills in destination countries with the potential supply abroad through immigration and refugees remains quite challenging. Diasporas can act as important agents of change, as they possess substantial human and financial capabilities to the socio-economic development of both countries of origin and destination. A structured policy of engaging, enabling and empowering diaspora to harness their skills and, more generally, enhance economic and social contributions, would be an important policy area to address.
Objectives
The objective of the “Handbook of Research on Global Immigration and Refugee Issues and Trends” is to address the following questions.
1. What are the current immigration and refugees trends in the global North and South?
2. What are the relevant global and regional legal frameworks in addressing social and economic aspects of refugees and immigrants?
3. What are the current social and economic challenges and outcomes of refugees and immigrants in the global North and South?
4. What are the current policies, interventions and practices, experiences and lessons learned in the global North and South? and
5. What is the way forward and what recommendations can be identified for addressing refugee and immigrants’ social and economic challenges in global North and South?
Target Audience
We seek researchers from all disciplines that span the social sciences and humanities to law and population sciences working on a range of possible topics focusing on immigrants and refugees policies. In most cases, researchers will want to cross multiple disciplinary boundaries, drawing from many areas of social science and the humanities to answer their research questions. This Handbook of Research will emphasize the process of research design and research implementation. Researchers will be encouraged to stretch the boundaries of their respective disciplines and explore how theories and methodologies from disparate disciplines can be used to design rich research projects to study the complex dynamics of and interactions focusing on immigrants and refugees policies.
This Handbook of Research is an opportunity to engage multi-stakeholders including professionals and practitioners from the government and non-government professionals, experts, policymakers, decision-makers, academia and researchers from both developed and developing countries in understanding immigrants and refugees policies.
Recommended Topics
The chapters are invited to address the following topics:
1. Immigration and Refugees flows
2. Well-managed immigration growth
3. Immigrants and social cohesion
4. Immigration and development
5. Social cohesion and immigration programmes
6. Economic contribution of immigration
7. Highly-skilled immigrants and labour market
8. Migration and ageing population
9. Composition and distribution of immigration
10. Demographics of immigrants and refugees
11. Social integration of immigrants and refugees
12. Economic Integration
13. Refugees and employment
14. Refugees and health care system
15. Refugee community organizations
16. Refugees and access to psychosocial care facilities
17. Obstacles to refugee integration
18. Inclusiveness and immigrants/refugees
19. Immigrants and refugees’ integration and adaptation
20. Immigrants and refugees’ pre-migration experiences
21. Immigrants and refugees’ departure process
22. Immigrants and refugees’ post-arrival experiences
23. Forced migrants
24. Refugees and living in hazardous spaces
25. Refugees and political and administrative issues
26. Transnational activities
27. Remittances
28. Refugee communities
29. Refugee organizations
30. Refugee crisis
31. Reception and access to the asylum procedures
32. Refugees’ protections and rights
33. Refugees and illegal migrants
34. Refugees’ family reunification
35. Refugees and social policies
36. Legal status of immigrants and refugees
37. Refugees and international legal obligations
38. Strategies and interventions for working with refugees
39. Refugees and sustainable development goals
40. Refugee children and access to the education systems
41. Refugees’ access to employment
42. Skills of migrants and refugees
43. Migration flows and stocks
44. Student migration
45. Forced displacement
46. Labour market integration of migrants and refugees
47. Enrolment of international students
48. Talent pool
49. Immigrants’ skills
50. Labour immigration
51. Skills mobility
52. Merit-based migration systems
53. Temporary immigration schemes
54. Demand-driven labour immigration systems
55. Demand for skills in destination countries
56. Skills development and immigration process
57. Skills mobility partnerships
58. Skills of diasporas and reintegration
59. Highly-skilled refugees and diaspora
60. Diaspora and highly skilled emigration
61. Highly educated migrants
62. Migrants and diaspora communities
63. High-skilled emigrants and brain drain
64. Harnessing high skilled migrants
65. Diaspora and transnational communities
66. Return and reintegration of migrants
67. Reintegration assistance
68. Sustainability of reintegration
69. Approaches to reintegration
70. Asylum-seekers
71. Prospective asylum seekers
72. Persons with determined protection status
73. Repatriating refugees
74. Repatriating asylum seekers
75. Trends in asylum applications
76. Resettlement and refugee stocks
77. Refugees’ Resettlement
78. Labour market institutions and integration policies
79. Refugees and entrepreneurship
80. Entrepreneurship and migrants and refugees
81. Inclusive entrepreneurship promotion
82. Demographic, geographic and legal factors
83. Entrepreneurship and supporting initiatives
84. Business opportunities and refugee entrepreneurs
85. Migrant and refugee entrepreneurship policy initiatives
86. Entrepreneurship and migration
87. Refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons
88. Forced displacement
89. Refugees and child care services
90. Refugees and home-based enterprise opportunities
91. Socio-economic situation of refugees
92. Access of refugees to concrete economic opportunities
93. Financial inclusion of refugees
94. Refugees and right to work
95. Refugees and small-holder farmers
96. Refugees and private sector
97. Refugees’ livelihoods and poverty
98. Immigration management
99. Expatriate nationals
100. Highly skilled diaspora
101. International cooperation
102. Migration policies
103. Policy challenges
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 4, 2019, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter in specified volume. Authors will be notified by June 15, 2020, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by October 2, 2019, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ before submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted for publication in the Handbook of Research on “Handbook of Research on Global Immigration and Refugee Issues and Trends”. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer-review editorial process. All proposals should be submitted through the E-Editorial Discovery online submission manager.
Publisher
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/4026
The Handbook of Research on “Handbook of Research on Global Immigration and Refugee Issues and Trends” is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2020.
Important Dates
Phase 1
1st proposal submission deadline: Jun 4, 2019
1st proposal approval notification: Jun 15, 2019
2nd proposal submission deadline: Jul 4, 2019
Progress report 1: Jul 4, 2019
Last Call for Proposals (if needed): Aug 3, 2019
Full chapter submission: Oct 2, 2019
Phase 2
Review results due to editor: Nov 16, 2019
Review results due to authors: Nov 30, 2019
Progress report 2: Nov 30, 2019
Phase 3
Revisions due from authors: Dec 28, 2019
Final acceptance/rejection notification due to authors: Jan 11, 2020
All final accepted materials due from authors: Jan 25, 2020
Final preface and table of contents: Feb 8, 2020
Final deadline: Mar 7, 2020
Inquiries
For further information you are free to contact
Falendra Kumar Sudan (Ph.D), Professor, Department of Economics, University of Jammu, India
Email: [email protected]
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