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Invitation for submissions for special issue of American Behavioral Scientist, "The COVID-19 Pandemic and Outbreak Inequalities: Migrants in the Margins"


The COVID-19 Pandemic and Outbreak Inequalities: Migrants in the Margins


Special Issue:
American Behavioral Scientist


Edited by:
Satveer Kaur-Gill and Mohan J. Dutta (Mohan Dutta)


Dear colleagues,


American Behavioral Scientist is hosting a special issue on the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on migrants in the margins. We are calling for abstracts by authors studying outbreak inequalities among precarious migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this journal issue, we are seeking data specific articles theorizing outbreak inequalities studied by migration scholars, health communication scholars, political communication scholars, and medical anthropologists from across the globe.


Migrant struggles at the margins during the COVID-19 pandemic amid global lockdowns rendered visible the amplified migrant health disparities. Precarious migrants were/are afflicted disproportionately during the COVID-19 crisis in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, India, China, and the United States. The (im)mobilities of migrants living in erasure across global capital are constituted amidst pandemic communication responses that left migrants in even greater precarity from the already precarious structural conditions faced. Migrants are left scrambling for health resources without receiving equitable communicative resources to bridge exacerbating health disparities. While these inequalities have surfaced prior to the pandemic, the systematic precarities of migrants in the margins are amplified during the COVID-19 crisis. The health ramifications for migrants are deeply tied to the social and economic inequalities embedded in the (im)mobilities of such migrant journeys.


Adopting a meta-theoretical framework that fosters dialogic connections between critical health social sciences and health humanities, the special issue invites papers that reflect what and how these outbreak inequalities surfaced for migrants during this crisis. We invite papers that study the theorizing of outbreak inequalities among precarious migrants, communicative vulnerabilities faced in responding to COVID-19 pandemic among migrant laborers, inequalities in pandemic communication and health disparities, (im)mobile migrants and health disparities, and exclusions from access to health resources and asymmetrical health information resources.


We hope that you will consider submitting to this call.

Please feel free to write to Mohan Dutta (mohanjdutt@gmail.com) or Satveer Kaur-Gill (ksatveer@gmail.com) if you have any questions or queries.


Abstracts for this special issue are due June 22nd, 2020 (Maximum of 500 words)
Acceptance Notifications for abstracts (July 2nd, 2020)
Final Papers (August 31st, 2020) (8000 words)
Review process (Review process September 2020)


When submitting your abstract please indicate [ABS special issue] in your email subject so we know this is for the ABS call.

Abstracts are to be sent to Satveer Kaur-Gill & Mohan Dutta

ksatveer@gmail.com/ satveer@nus.edu.sg
mohanjdutt@gmail.com

Best wishes,
Satveer & Mohan

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