*CFP* "LIKE AN ANIMAL: REFUGEES, ANIMALS, AND MULTICULTURALISM", EDITED VOLUME

We would like to invite you to contribute with a chapter to a new co-edited volume titled ‘Like an Animal’: Refugees, Animals, and Multiculturalism. Communication scholars are very much welcomed to this multidisciplinary volume.

The volume explores the unexamined links between human migrants/refugees and nonhumans (refugees in their own right) during global migration crises. The volume’s goal is to open an interdisciplinary and multicultural discussion on the structural, symbolic, and discursive logics behind the human-animal divide as reflected and perpetuated in the case of human migration crises. Contributions will examine any of the intersections between human refugees and nonhuman animals’ interests, treatment, legal status, or media narratives and policies that target them in multicultural states: the EU, MENA, Latin America, and the US. Some of the questions we aim to address include:

• How does the shift toward securitization, much exacerbated by the migration crisis, reify the two vulnerable groups? 
• What do multicultural states risk in denying the suffering of these “huddled masses”? 
• How does the human-animal construct frame and perpetuate the treatment of the two vulnerable groups? 
• What are the common ideological roots of the oppression of the two groups? 
• Why is it useful to think about the intersections between human migrants/refugees and speciesism? 
• What role does the human-animal divide play in racism, ethnocentrism, classism, etc. as applied to global migration crises?

The volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, journalists, and students as well as a range of governmental and nongovernmental organizations devoted to social justice including animal rights, human rights, and environment activism. We expect to select 10-12 contributions to seek publication in 2020 with a top international academic publisher (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Sage, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, etc.). The volume will commit to principles of nonviolence and ethical veganism, and use non-speciesist language. The contributions are (provisionally) due by August 31, 2019; the length of each chapter is 7,000-8,000 words (references and notes included).

Deadline for submitting 300-400 word abstracts: Nov 20, 2018

Please send abstract submissions to: nataliekhazaal@tamu.edu