29.3180, FYI: Spanish; Sociolinguistics: Call for papers: Volume on the Dominican diaspora

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Subject: 29.3180, FYI:  Spanish; Sociolinguistics: Call for papers: Volume on the Dominican diaspora

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:10:16
From: Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez [wilfredo.valentin-marquez at millersville.edu]
Subject: Call for papers: Volume on the Dominican diaspora

 
Migration is one of the largest topics of our time. Its motivations and
effects on the migrants and the host nations have prompted complex and
fundamental discussion in much of the world in recent years. The volume we
imagine takes this discussion as a backdrop and turns the readers’ attention
to the complexity of migration in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. In this
geographic area, migration has a long history and has always included a back
and forth between different islands in response to economic and/or political
problems in the homelands. Within this sociopolitical, historical,
psychological, and linguistic context, we decided to examine the motivations
and effects of migration by the example of the Dominican diaspora in Puerto
Rico and the U.S. mainland. Since the 1960s, the end of the era of the
Dominican dictator Trujillo, Dominican migration increased immensely,
especially to Puerto Rico and the mainland US. In particular, migration to
Puerto Rico is interesting from the research perspective, as two historically
and linguistically very similar groups start existing in the same geographic
space. But also, the existence of Dominican migration to the US offers a wide
field of inquiry.
 
To this end, we would like to invite authors to contribute to this volume,
tentatively titled: The Dominican diaspora in Puerto Rico and the U.S. The
span of research is purposefully broad, in order to offer the reader as
complex a picture as possible on the topic of Dominican migration. Scholars
who are currently doing research on the linguistic, social, psychological, and
historical effects of Dominican migration to Puerto Rico and the US are
welcome to submit a 300-word abstract in English or Spanish of their original,
unpublished manuscripts in both PDF and Word files to esuarezb at shepherd.edu by
September 30, 2018.
 
A deadline for the submission of the full manuscript will be announced at a
later date. The editors will employ the double-blind peer review process for
the papers. Both the author and the reviewer will remain anonymous throughout
the review process.
 
We have been in contact with editors of the journal Caribbean Studies who have
expressed interest in publishing this edited volume. Publication is
anticipated for December 2019. Questions related to this project can also be
sent to esuarezb at shepherd.edu.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)





 



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