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Subject: [balkans] CfP: South-Eastern Europe and the European Migration
System. East-West Mobility..
From:    "Ovidiu" <ovidiusimina la yahoo.com>
Date:    Sun, October 18, 2009 23:10
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Call for Papers

The Romanian Journal of European Studies No.7-8/2009
- special issue on migration and mobility

SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE AND THE EUROPEAN MIGRATION SYSTEM. EAST-WEST MOBILITY
IN FLUX

Guest Editor: Dr. Paolo RUSPINI

Purpose of this special issue on migration of the Romanian Journal of
European Studies (RJES) is to look at the ongoing transformations of the
European migration system in relation to the European integration
processes involving South-Eastern Europe.

The 2004 European enlargement and its completion with the Romania and
Bulgaria accession in 2007 reshaped the European migration space while
contributing to a substantial increase of East-West mobility. On the one
hand, the granting of free movement to the new members from Central and
Eastern Europe (CEE) and the ease of communication and transportation
facilitated these transformations in the migration realm allowing
different types of mobility inside the European continent. On the other
hand, the new enlarged borders demarcated the EU polity both in the East
and in the South by widening the gap between the included and excluded
members.

The European migration system includes now the eight CEE countries that
joined the EU in 2004 as well two South-Eastern European (SEE) countries,
Romania and Bulgaria, which acceded in 2007. The long-standing EU
candidacy of Croatia and Turkey along with the more recent from Macedonia
as well as the pending accession requests from other Western Balkan
countries, bring further attention to South-Eastern Europe and its
specificities in term of migration and asylum flows as a result of the
collapse of the former Yugoslavia, the ethnic conflicts and borders
reshaping which took place in the region starting from the 1990s.

Pending issues in the European policy making processes are also related to
the countries which, for the time being, are not EU candidate but they are
old SEE neighbours as Ukraine or Moldova. They represent the new EU
external borders in the East and South-East of the continent and pose
several migration related challenges in view of their geopolitical role
and strategic position in between the EU and Russia.

East-West mobility will change again in a future to come because of
economic, demographic and policy factors as the reshaping of the Schengen
area, the ongoing visa liberalisation involving several SEE countries and
their progressive accession to the EU. The current financial crisis is
then concurring in sparking off multifaceted return migration flows that
require further investigation.
Return migration certainly falls into the post-enlargement most
interesting migration typologies. Other concurrent typologies frame the
European migration space both in the East and in the South. The new
Schengen borders generate circular, transit and irregular flows. The lack
of coordination between countries in applying policy and legislative
instruments for the governance of these flows - for instance, the absence
of consultation mechanisms for the adoption of immigrant regularisations
or the coercive use of one time prescription like the expulsion orders -
are just examples which bring to the surface the urgent need of more
coherence between the national and supranational level and a rights based
approach in migration policy-making.

Thanks also to the EU enlargement processes, the unidirectional
perspective of some migration analyses leaves room for investigation into
migration patterns which include East-West, East-East, and West-East
typologies. The resulting impact of these patterns require tailored
policies and pertinent legislation re-approaching in a real and effective
governance of migration old and new EU members, non-EU members, accession
countries and so far neglected EU neighbours.

The RJES would especially welcome contributions related to the above
topics and the following themes:

- Theoretical questions related to the European migration system and
South-Eastern Europe
How to frame in analytical terms the transformations in direction and
magnitude of migration affecting the European continent? Can we possibly
talk about a single "European migration system" by comprising which
countries and region? Or is it still more appropriate to think of several
"European migration subsystems" to whom South Eastern Europe belong to?

- New and old typologies of migration flows and their conceptualisation
Irregular and transit, circular and return migration: which policy
responses for which type of flows? Forced migrants and IDPs in SEE: which
policy for which sustainability? Transnational patterns of migration in
between East and West: which are the features of the SEE migrant Diaspora
and returnees in the European countries of destination and countries of
origin?

- The migration patterns and integration processes of the CEE and SEE
countries in comparison
How to relate the recent South-Eastern European migration experience with
that of other Central and Eastern European countries? Does a common
framework for comparison exist in terms of characteristics and potential
of migration flows from the region? What SEE countries can learn from the
CEE process of acquisition of the acquis communautaire in migration?

- The EU external borders and migration through the SEE region
What is the impact of the EU border reshaping on the SEE candidate and
neighbouring countries? Which is the extent of the migration imbalances,
irregular flows, smuggling and human trafficking at the EU threshold?

- Symmetries and asymmetries of the EU immigration policy with particular
reference to the SEE region
What is the impact of the EU immigration policy in relation to the SEE
migration and asylum patterns? How to overcome the EU "institutional
isomorphism"? Which are the pertinent policy solutions for the migration
challenges and specificities of the SEE region?

Deadline and paper requirements

Unpublished manuscripts are welcomed from a variety of academic
disciplines related to migration, mobility and European integration and
adopting different methodologies.

Up to 12 original papers will be selected and included in the double issue
of the Romanian Journal of European Studies (RJES) n.7-8/2009 to be
published in the first semester of 2010. Papers should include an abstract
of 500 words (max) that clearly states the research question, methodology
as well as the sources of comparative data.

Papers should be written in English and be around 8000 words. Papers
should also conform to the RJES editorial policy:

Papers should be submitted by 15 December 2009. Decision will be announced
by the guest editor directly by mid of January, 2010.

Further information and list of accepted papers/authors – available via
web at: http://www.migratie.ro and http://romanian.journal.googlepages.com

Please kindly send your papers to the following email addresses:

Email address: Paolo Ruspini <paolo.ruspini la migratie.ro>
Attn: Dr. Paolo RUSPINI, Guest Editor
Subject: <name of author(s) in BOLD> paper for RJES 7-8/2009

The author(s) should add a short resume (professional CV, European
standard, mentioning relevant publication on migration and mobility),
along with up to 10 lines of a short own-presentation on a separate file
or at the end of the article (to be included in the authors' list of the
printed journal and on the web materials, if the paper is accepted). The
editors would request a recent photo (jpg file) of each contributor of the
articles, but the photo is not binding.

As the editors will create an on-line version for all accepted papers,
adding relevant information about the authors (please see
http://romanian.journal.googlepages.com for the previous issue of the
journal, RJES no.5-6/2007) – the would-be contributors are requested to
clearly state the following text at the begin of the first page of the
article: "The Editors/Guest Editor may use (or cannot use) my contact
data, my short presentation and my picture (if the case) both in the
printed publication/on-line publication and in all advertorial material
they use to promote the journal".

Note:
Neither the guest editor and the editorial team nor the authors are paid
for the publication of the journal. The authors keep the copyright for the
version of the paper included in the journal, they may republish/improve
the paper later on, but they have obligation to mention The Romanian
Journal of European Studies No.7- as the first publication. The on-line
version of each paper (PDF files) will be freely distributed on the web:
the journal is posted on free websites and included in open library which
allow free download, for a wider dissemination of the scientific
information. The authors are encouraged to freely post their papers / the
whole journal on theirs personal / professional / institutional webpage.

The printed issues are sent to major university libraries and research
centre both from the region and from USA, Japan or Western Europe. For
more information about the printed issues, the authors may contact
directly the Publishing House of the West University of Timiºoara (Editura
Universitãþii de Vest, Universitatea de Vest din Timiºoara; 4, Bd. Vasile
Pârvan, 300223 Timiºoara, Timiº, România - www.uvt.ro).


About the Guest Editor

Dr. Paolo RUSPINI

Paolo Ruspini (PhD, Milan) is Senior researcher at the Faculty of
Communication Sciences of the University of Lugano (USI) since February
2008 as well as Associate Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic
Relations (CRER) of the University of Warwick since March 2001. A
political scientist, he has been researching issues of international and
European migration and integration since 1997. Dr Ruspini uses a
comparative approach to migration with frequent policy and qualitative
analyses. He is an active member of some of the most important European
research networks regarding international migration and social cohesion as
well as being advisor for national and international institutions. He
combines research activities with routine lectures in a number of
universities and international institutions. Besides a significant number
of papers which he contributed to international conferences, he is also
the author of various publications on migration. To contact him, please
mail t
 o paolo.ruspini la migratie.ro

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