Refugee Watch Online is a widely read,
critically acclaimed bi-monthly web journal (published at www.refugeewatchonline.blogspot.in).
It is a sister concern to the international journal Refugee Watch, both published from Calcutta Research Group (www.mcrg.ac.in).
From
the boatload of Rohingyas denied entry to the capsized boat that led to the
death of Aylan Kurdi and international outrage, the boat people have been on
our minds. The boat does not merely signify movement, but has historically been
the means through which slaves, indentured labourers and other dispossessed
were transported. Historically and in the contemporary period, the boat people
emerge as a powerful metaphor for dispossession, forced migration and
statelessness. The boat people, invoked as a symbol, congeals within itself
almost all of the major tropes and concerns relevant to forced migration
studies.
Refugee Watch Online (RWO) seeks 700-1000 words long
research articles, news reports, perspectives and views on the boat people for
its November- December 2015 issue. Other relevant submissions are also
solicited. Articles need to be in MSWord
format, references clearly indicated within text or in endnotes.
We
also welcome reviews of relevant books, films and other cultural products.
Reviews should be of approximately 1000 words in length, and carry detailed
information regarding the artefact reviewed. Photographs and other media, topical to the
interests of RWO can also be sent for
publication.
From
the June 2015 issue, RWO has been
containing a special section on narratives, either in the first or in the third
person. Narratives of the displaced, forced migrants are actively solicited to
both enable their voices to reach a wider public, and to keep research
grounded.
RWO also carries call for papers for
books, journals, conferences, seminars and workshops.
Please
send your submissions (by 15th November 2015) and direct your queries to refugeewatchonline@gmail.com. The peer review process
and editorial decision making can take up to three weeks.
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