The Migration Online is a specialised website and network focusing on migration issues in Central and Eastern Europe. It is based on a cooperation of an international network of analysts and organisations. Its aim is to promote dialogue and international comparisons in the field of migration.

We are looking for contributions to our internet site www.migrationonline.cz in the form of studies (maximum 4,000 words), fresh excerpts from the field, reports, essays, interviews (with migrants or experts) and information about interesting projects of NGOs or other organisations to the themes "Refugees in CEE" and "Gender and migration in CEE".

Language: English or Czech
Deadline: 28 February, 2006

1) Refugees in Central and Eastern Europe. Contributions may address but are not limited to: characteristics, motives and strategies of the refugees; the role of networks in the process of escape; the influence of smuggling on the influx of refugees; the role of different actors in the asylum procedure; patterns of integration and the roles of different actors; refugees and identity; attitudes towards refugees and their influence on the asylum policy.

Coordinator of this topic for web publication: Radka Klvanova, Masaryk University, Brno, email: radka.klvanova@gmail.com

2) Gender and migration in Central and Eastern Europe. Various migration studies demonstrate that motivations as well as routes of migrants are gender specific, their integration into host societies is shaped by varying mechanisms and their socially constructed gender identities undergo significant changes as a reaction to migration experiences. Contributions should focus on the gendered character of migration taking into account intesections with other categories of difference such as ethnicity, class or age and nationality.

Coordinator of this topic for web publication: Alice Szczepanikova, University of Warwick, UK, email: alice.szczepanikova@gmail.com