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Call for Chapters: Digital Narratives of Trauma Among Immigrant and Refugee Women

Editors

Andrea Scapolo, Kennesaw State University, United States
Arturo Matute Castro, Kennesaw State University, United States
Sha Huang, Kennesaw State University, United States
Anisah Bagasra, Kennesaw State University, United States

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: November 24, 2024
Full Chapters Due: February 9, 2025
Submission Date: February 9, 2025

Introduction

Immigrant communities facing displacement and trauma have increasingly turned to social media as a platform to share their testimonies, connect to their communities, and build new support networks. Due to existing structural inequities, women face unique challenges, such as discrimination and violence, human trafficking, economic deprivation, and conflicting cultural norms. This is particularly true in the case of immigrant and refugee women from the Global South .

Objective

In this context, social media and digital technologies have increasingly served as powerful platforms for social justice and community building by providing marginalized groups with a venue to share testimonies and connect with their community of origin and other groups facing similar challenges. Social media platforms have enabled immigrant and refugee communities to transcend geographical boundaries and forge supportive communities online (Smith and Bakker, 2020). These communities are of special importance in the case of women dealing with traumatic experiences who have been able to use social media to find understanding, solidarity, and a shared language to piece together the fragments of painful memories in healing narratives of resilience and empowerment. In these virtual communities, immigrant and refugee women can also find a collective voice to mobilize social and political activism on issues such as immigration policies, access to healthcare, and gender-based violence. The goal of this edited volume is to showcase and examine examples od digital narratives among women from the Global South.

Target Audience

International scholars in the fields of the Global South, refugee and trauma resiliency, migration, trauma studies, cultural studies, digital humanities, gender studies, and communication will be the main audience for this book. The book is also of interest to non-governmental organizations, activists, federal, and state agencies, and those working in helping professions including refugee and asylum-seeking areas. The book may be used in graduate courses in conflict resolution, mass communication, women and gender studies, public policy, social work, migration, and international studies.

Recommended Topics

This edited volume seeks to explore the intersection of trauma, displacement, and digital activism, focusing specifically on the use of social media among immigrant women, refugees, asylum seeks and other displaced women from the Global South . Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Digital Testimonies and Story-Telling: the use of social media platforms as venues to share personal narratives, testimonies, and lived experiences of trauma and displacement. Community Building: the use of social media in immigrant communities to forge connections, build solidarity, and create supportive networks with others facing similar challenges. Activism and Advocacy: case studies or analyses of digital activism campaigns led by displaced women to raise awareness, advocate for their rights, and challenge systems of oppression. Digital Ethnography: Research on the online experiences and interactions of displaced women through social media platforms. Social media as an emerging platform to share challenges related to motherhood and womanhood for women who have experienced migration, asylum-seeking, and displacement. How women immigrants from the Global South leverage social media to establish agency.

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 24, 2024, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by December 10, 2024 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters of a minimum of 10,000 words (word count includes references and related readings) are expected to be submitted by February 9, 2025, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-anonymized review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Digital Narratives of Trauma Among Immigrant and Refugee Women. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-anonymized peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.



Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2026.



Important Dates

November 24, 2024: Proposal Submission Deadline
December 10, 2024: Notification of Acceptance
February 9, 2025: Full Chapter Submission
April 13, 2025: Review Results Returned
May 25, 2025: Final Acceptance Notification
June 8, 2025: Final Chapter Submission



Inquiries

Andrea Scapolo
Kennesaw State University
ascapolo@kennesaw.edu

Arturo Matute Castro
Kennesaw State University
acastr29@kennesaw.edu

Sha Huang
Kennesaw State University
shuang5@kennesaw.edu

Anisah Bagasra
Kennesaw State University
abagasra@kennesaw.edu



Classifications


Media and Communications; Social Sciences and Humanities
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