{"id":6950,"date":"2021-03-23T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2021-09-17T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:54:07","slug":"call-for-papers-ias-nov-2021-laredo-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/?p=6950","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers IAS Nov 2021 Laredo English"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the IAS 2020 conference at Texas A&M International University was postponed. The conference has been rescheduled to take place online in November 11-13, 2021. This is the new call for papers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Call for Papers<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Borders between modern nation\/states in the Americas have always been porous and flexible, with nationals moving from one country to another\u2014with or without documents\u2014to flee poverty, violence, political instability, failing economic systems or just to seek better jobs. Recently, these border crossings have significantly increased, while, at the same time political forces such as nationalist and conservative movements in the receiving countries have emerged or expanded, adopting ever more confrontational (and even more violent) tactics, a situation similar to what has been happening in other regions of the world.<\/p>\n

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Borders in the Americas separate but also allow for contact and multiple exchanges between nation states. They are set to contain people and goods from leaving one country and entering another. Yet they also make international trade, tourism, and commerce possible. Likewise, trans-border contact promotes cultural and linguistic exchanges.<\/p>\n

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Mass migration has been exacerbated in different parts of the Americas\u2014particularly Central America and South America\u2014due to extreme violence, the violation of human rights, and economic crises. Thousands of people have fled their countries, some trying to reach the United States requesting entrance as refugees, while others have moved to other Latin American countries (for example, Venezuelans migrating to Colombia, Brazil, Peru, or Ecuador, or Haitians relocating to Chile, Brazil, Mexico or the US). Humanitarian crises are on the rise due to increasingly harsh conditions along the migration routes. Meanwhile, the governments of receiving countries have demonstrated a general lack of interest in protecting migrants from discrimination and criminalization. As such, migrants often struggle to obtain the rights to asylum and due process\u2014or even to be treated with basic dignity.<\/p>\n

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Migrants able to settle in other countries typically maintain some of their most enduring traditions, values, language, and customs, creating symbolic and spatial territories while typically assimilating or adopting varying cultural elements of their new homes.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, borders are not only defined by documented or undocumented migration patterns. Millions of people living permanently on the fringes of their nation-states, interact on a daily basis with citizens of the neighboring countries. As well, people who many times are closer to them on ethnic, linguistic, and cultural grounds than fellow countrymen find comfort in these new circumstances even though they are living far away from the original political boundary. The fluid and intense social, economic, and cultural interaction between people living in the borderlands results in liminal spaces where multiple cultures and sub-cultures co-exist either producing hybrid cultural manifestations (as argued by Garcia Canclini) or maintaining the core of their customs and beliefs while interacting in complex multicultural arenas (as pointed out by Gim\u00e9nez). Everything from language, religion, literature, music, and media is impacted by this daily interplay of contrasting cultural forces subject to political and economic systems that frequently pull in different directions.<\/p>\n

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The theme of this conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS)<\/strong>, \u201cWalls, Bridges, and Borders in the Americas,\u201d encompasses a wide range of topics and approaches to these issues relating to the past as well as to present times, while trying to draw the attention of Inter-American scholars towards the political, cultural, and social complexities and challenges of border regions in the Americas.<\/p>\n

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Presenters are asked to consider questions such as:<\/p>\n

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