CALL FOR PAPERS - Managing Migration: Advanced Digital Technologies and the Movement of People (Extended)
Call for Papers for the IRIE Volume 35 (Extended)
Deadline for abstract submission: June 30, 2025, 11:59 PM (AoE)
We invite submissions from any discipline, methodology, or a combination of them that address the themes listed below, including, but not limited to:
- Ethical frameworks and principles guiding the use of ADTs in migration management
- Case studies on the implementation of ethical guidelines in migration data handling
- Challenges and effects of digitization of borders
- Surveillance and border policing and its impact on migrants and refugees
- Big data, AI, social media, and their impact on migrants and refugees
- Digital economy, data centers, and migrant populations
- Legal implications and ethical considerations of digitization in migration contexts
- Humanitarian discourse and intervention in migration challenges
- Intersection of ADTs with migrants’ welfare and security, such as the use of ADTs by migrants themselves to advance their own interests
- Digital activism in migrant advocacy
- Ecocritical migration studies on the human, natural, and technological relationships
Submission Guidelines:
The evaluation process will follow the steps below:
1) Editorial review of the abstract and references (desk review).
Submissions must be made through the journal’s website, including the title, abstract (in English, up to 500 words), author information, at least three keywords, and references. At this stage, uploading the full manuscript is not required.
2) Authors whose abstracts are approved in the desk review must submit their full manuscripts by July 31, 2025, following IRIE guidelines.
3) Manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.
4) After revisions, a final editorial decision will be made by August 31, 2025.
5) The article will be formatted according to the journal’s template and published by September 15, 2025.
For more information, please contact us at:
Tuğba Yoldaş: yoldas@ualberta.ca
Camila Escudero: camila.escudero@metodista.br