Call for papers: Transmigration, Emotions and Labour

A special issue of International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion

This special issue invites you to examine the contemporary issue of migration, emotions and labour. Transmigration challenges us to rethink the ‘emotional order’ of societies and of work and organisations. There is a need to examine how local/national and workplace emotional regimes and codes either are overturned, altered or resist and remain stagnant in the face of the social change that migration between countries brings with it. There are also emerging issues around emotional aspects of migrant identity and, in particular, group membership and belonging. We encourage, therefore, the submission of empirical and theoretical papers that examine the host of themes that arise out of this area.

Suitable contributions include but are not limited to:

• Migration and domestic work
• Migration, family, friendship and emotions
• Migrant emotion, public work places and organisations
• Wellbeing and forced aspects of migration
• Issues around emotions and the management of transmigration
• General issues pertaining to emotions and transmigration

We would encourage works that explicate these kinds of issues with a core focus upon difference (for instance, in relation to gender, age, form of migrant status, ethnicity, faith - or lack of it - and disability).

Important Dates
Deadline for submission: 11 December 2010