RMI call for Paper for 2020 PSA conference

70th PSA Conference – 6-8 April 2020 – Edinburgh International Conference Centre and Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa

From long-term population changes to seismic political events like Brexit and volatile elections, ethnicity, identity, immigration and race are at the heart of political change across many diverse democracies. The PSA Race, Migration and Intersectionality specialist group aims to create a much-needed space for PSA members to share, promote and discuss research related to race, racism, ethnicity, ethnic minority political participation and representation, but also issues of identity, immigration and belonging. Key to the group is an emphasis on intersectionality, and the interaction of race, gender and class.

The theme of the 2020 conference, PSA at 70: Re-imagining politics, could not be more appropriate to formally launch our group with a series of panels challenging both the nature of our discipline, its lack of diversity and tendency to ignore or overlook issues of race and racism, but also wider political development such as the impact of various crises, from climate to war, on migration patterns and the return of racism in our political debate at the expense of more open and intersectional approaches.

We welcome papers and panels which fit within these broad remits. In collaboration with the Populism and Young People's Politics specialist groups and EPOP, we also invite papers and panels which could speak to audiences across these areas. If you would like to be considered for these joint panels, please make it clear in your abstract.

Deadline: abstracts for the RMI stream (200 words with authors’s names and affiliations) should be submitted by the 7th of October to Aurelien Mondon (a.mondon@bath.ac.uk).

Applicants will be contacted to confirm whether their papers and panels will be part of our limited number of panels ahead of the PSA deadline to give them plenty of time to resubmit them to the general pool if need be.

For any questions, please contact Aurelien Mondon (a.mondon@bath.ac.uk).

Neema Begum, Nicole Martin and Aurelien Mondon