Call for Papers
Updated November 5, 2024
ATLANTIS HAS ONE CURRENT CALL FOR PAPERS:
Migration and the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
Deadline for abstracts January 31, 2025. Please see details below.
*We are not open for submission other than for this specific CFP.*
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Special Issue
Migration and the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
Edited by:
Dr. Tatjana Takševa
Professor of Women and Gender Studies and
Chair, Department of English Language and Literature, Saint Mary’s University, Canada
AND
Dr. Nancy Annan, Assistant Professor
Peace, Women and Conflict Studies, Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University, UK
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: JANUARY 31, 2025
The Women, Peace, and Security (“WPS”) agenda was formally initiated by the landmark UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000), which was adopted on 31 October 2000. UNSCR 1325 affirmed the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peacebuilding initiatives and articulated the four pillars of the WPS agenda: prevention, participation, protection, and relief and recovery (UN Development Programme 2019).
In the years since adoption, the UN Security Council has adopted nine more resolutions on women, peace, and security to provide more detailed guidance on specific aspects of war and its impact on women, addressing such issues as sexual and gender-based violence, human trafficking, and the gendered aspects of peacekeeping efforts (Annan and Pappoe 2016). Focused rather narrowly on conflict and so-called post-conflict scenarios, the resolutions have been primarily directed at nation states that deploy forces for peacekeeping operations and those that provide development funding to support women’s empowerment and peacebuilding roles, that is, primarily countries in the global North.
This specific focus has generated a significant body of scholarship and policy frameworks relating to gender-based violence in situations of armed conflict, for example, on prosecuting perpetrators (Geneva Convention 1949; Rome Statute 1998; Brammertz and Jarvis 2016; UNSCR 1888; 1820; Martin and SáCouto 2020; Irvin-Erickson 2018); increasing survivors’ access to health care, psychosocial support, and socioeconomic reintegration services (Crawford, Kiven, Annan et al. 2022; Woldetsadik 2022; Natalya Clark 2022; 2021); and identifying the roles of women survivors and children born of war in transitional justice, peacebuilding, and civilian protection frameworks (Takševa, 2015; 2017; 2018; 2020; 2023; forthcoming 2025; Annan et al 2021; Crawford, Annan et al. 2024).
However, geopolitical peacebuilding contexts have changed significantly over the last decade, especially considering sharp increases in migration flows from the so-called global South to the global North. We contend that these flows challenge narrow interpretations of peace and security as applying only to foreign development and foreign conflicts, or to the status of women within WPS national action plans. It is estimated that women comprise roughly half of the world’s 272 million migrants (UN Women 2020). Migrant and refugee women habitually experience gender-based violence as well as multiple violations of the principles of security. Many of those violations occur at, between, or within the borders of nation states in the global North (Tastsoglou and Abraham 2016; Crawley and Skleparis 2018; Freedman, Sahraoui and Tastsoglou 2022; Tastsoglou 2023). Such ongoing violations remain largely invisible and under analyzed, especially from the perspective of the WPS framework. In fact, the issues faced by women migrants and refugees are not only absent from this framework and the larger peacebuilding agenda pertaining to transit/receiving countries, but the women themselves are frequently criminalized or rendered “illegal” and ineligible for state support through elaborate forms of state inflicted violence, marginalization, and increasingly stringent immigration laws and regulations.
Special Issue:
We invite interdisciplinary analyses that identify the intersections between the WPS agenda and migration in the context of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, socioeconomic status, and/or other dimensions of identity and peacebuilding. Our goal is to foster a vibrant dialogue among practitioners, policymakers, and scholars who study gender, migration and the WPS agenda, with the aim of investigating and expanding definitions of peace and security beyond foreign development support, and interrogating the extent to which the pillars of WPS pertain to migrant and refugee women.
Various forms of scholarship will be considered, including:
• Original research
• Systematic or narrative reviews
• Commentaries and reflections
• Interviews
The editors encourage submissions that engage the following research questions among others:
• To what extent is migration a WPS issue?
• What are the overlaps between issues in migration and the WPS agenda?
• How are peace processes securitized and what are the gendered implications for migrant and refugee women?
• How are migrant women represented discursively/ legally/ politically/ economically/socio-culturally in the context of receiving nation states?
• What types of agency do migrant women have and to what extent are they recognised/represented or stifled in receiving states?
• To what extent do gender and xenophobia intersect in peace processes?
• What are some security-related factors that exacerbate the vulnerabilities of women migrants in receiving states or during the migration journey?
Submission Process
**Please read Atlantis Journal’s scope and submission guidelines before submitting work.**
Please submit an abstract of 500 words by January 31, 2025. Abstracts must be submitted through Atlantis’ OJS platform.
Notification of abstract acceptance will be sent by February 28, 2025. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full article by August 31,2025. Invitation to submit a full paper does not indicate or guarantee publication. All research papers will be sent for anonymous external peer review.
For questions about OJS and/or the submission process, please contact Katherine Barrett, Managing Editor: atlantis.journal@msvu.ca.
For questions about submission scope and content, please contact Tatjana Takseva: Tatjana.Takseva@smu.ca and Nancy Annan: ac6959@coventry.ac.uk (subject title: Atlantis)
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Forthcoming Issues (submissions now closed)
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Co-Editors: Lori Lee Oates and Sritama Chatterjee
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Co-Editors: Erin Fredericks, Alex Khasnabish, and Ardath Whynacht
RUPTURES, RESISTANCE, RECLAMATION: GLOBAL FEMINISMS IN A DIGITAL AGE
Co-Editors: Iqra Shagufta Cheema, Jennifer Jill Fellows, Lisa Smith
"HEALING IS AN ACT OF COMMUNION": CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN'S HEALTH, WELLNESS AND DISEASE
Co-Editors: Shannan Grant and Barbara Hamilton-Hinch
