CALL
FOR PAPERS
Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan
invites submissions for its 2009 Special Issue
(vol. 16, no. 1, June 2009) on the theme of
“Women Working beyond Borders.”
Date of publication: June 2009
Submission of Abstract: December 2008
Complete paper: by March 2009
Trafficking of women and girls and their migration
to seek waged work has long been an important
topic for feminist researchers, theorists, and
activists. The number of trafficked and migrant
women and girls has been increasing rapidly,
especially in the last two decades. This is
happening despite our knowledge that trafficking
of human beings is a global human rights violation
and is a contemporary form of slavery.
This special issue solicits writings that explore
the issue of trafficked women and migrant women
workers and examine the various related themes
with an international and comparative perspective.
While our empirical and theoretical focus is
on trafficked and migrant women workers’
experience, we also encourage submissions that
draw linkages between women and other social
and economic identities.
We encourage scholarly works from all disciplines,
including (but not limited to): anthropology,
sociology, psychology, literature, linguistics,
women’s studies, history, public health,
public policy, philosophy, art history, business/marketing,
information sciences, political science, communications/media
studies, theatre, international studies, law,
and education. Our aim is to reinforce links
that integrate and bring closer researchers
and activists in their endeavour to address
the continuation of this inhuman treatment of
women in the twenty first century.
Possible topics for submissions could include:
The sociological aspect of trafficking/
migrant women seeking work
Implications of women trafficking and its consequences
Commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking
for the purpose of prostitution
Forced labour/ Forced migration
The exploitation of immigrant females for domestic
services,
The sale of wives legalized by transnational
marriages, mail order brides,
International trafficking prohibitions of the
various international conventions,
The role of organized crime and corruption in
trafficking in persons,
Trafficking in children: child prostitution,
and the issue of sex tourism
Sex work, Prostitution, pornography and women
Conducting interviews with trafficked women
Reproductive health of migrant women workers
and prostitutes
Protection of migrant workers
Family life of trafficked women/migrant workers/sex
workers
Social issues: Transformation of family dynamics
Cartographies of trafficking cartography
Undocumented workers/ Migrant domestic workers
Migrant sex workers
Sexuality in Migration and sex work
Migrant women’s networks
Impact of restructuring of the global economy
and the transformation of national economies
Transnational prostitution as a form of female
migration
Internal and international migration
Personal Narratives of trafficked women and
migrant women
Emerging identities under fluid situations
Please note that these topics are intended as
suggestions and not limitations.
Publications in which PJWS is indexed:
Alternative Press Index, EBSCO, Feminist Academic
Press Column, Index Islamicus, Gender Watch,
ProQuest Full Text, Sociological Abstracts,
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts, Sociology
of Education Abstracts, SocIndex with Full Text,
Women’s Studies Abstracts.
Submissions should be previously unpublished
and not be submitted simultaneously to other
journals simultaneously. If your are interested
in submitting an article for consideration please
contact the editor on niswan_pk@hotmail.com
or pakistanwomenstudies@gmail.com
info@pakistanwomenstudies.com
Papers should be mailed to the editor PJWS.
Mailing Address:
C 31 Noman Heaven
Block 15, Gulistan-e-Jauhar
Karachi, 75290, Pakistan
