Research in Economic Anthropology is preparing a forthcoming volume titled Migration, Borders, and the Economy of Displacement bringing together contributions by leading scholars in the field, including David Griffith and other internationally recognized authors.
The volume will explore the entanglements between mobility, political-economic regimes, border enforcement, and the lived experiences of displaced and mobile populations. We are particularly interested in ethnographically grounded contributions examining how forces such as political repression, armed conflict, climate disruption, racialized migration control, and economic restructuring shape migration trajectories and migrant experiences. Relevant themes include border regimes and bureaucratic violence, deportation and return migration, moral and affective dilemmas of asylum and statelessness, transnational economies of care and obligation, and migration imaginaries.
The editors welcome ethnographic, comparative, and multi-sited approaches. Manuscripts should be 6,200–8,000 words and were originally scheduled for submission by January 9, 2026. While this is the official deadline, they still have a couple of chapters available and may be able to allow an extension of up to two additional months. If you are interested, please contact the editor as soon as possible (see below).
The editors would be delighted to include authors who can deliver their works in progress for the volume according to the above timeline and will be happy to provide further details.
Please reach out to: Dr. Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and Director, Egolab-GRAFO.
Email for correspondence: hugo.valenzuela@uab.cat
May see also Linkedin page of Dr. Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia