CALL FOR PAPERS

Title: Welsh, Irish, and Polish Migration and Diaspora to Argentina

Editors: María Eugenia Crusetand Aleksander Bednarski

Proposals (500 words): May 15, 2026

Completed chapters (7,000 words): September 15, 2026

Languages: English and/or Spanish

We invite scholars to contribute to an edited volume or a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to Welsh, Irish, and Polish migration and diasporic formations in Argentina. The volume is intended for publication with an established international academic press or, as a special issue of a journal indexed in Scopus and/or EBSCO. For contributors based in Poland, the final venue must appear on the Polish ministerial list; this requirement will be taken into account when selecting the publisher or journal. This call for papers is part of the agreement signed between The University of the Salvador in Argentina and The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Poland in 2024.

Migration remains one of the most intensively debated and conceptually productive areas of inquiry in the contemporary humanities and social sciences. Over the past several decades, migration and diaspora studies have consolidated into a wide-ranging, methodologically diverse field, bringing into dialogue history, sociology, political theory, cultural studies, and linguistics. Yet, for all its interdisciplinarity, the field has often gravitated toward the Anglophone world. The United States and the United Kingdom, in particular, continue to function – implicitly or explicitly – as paradigmatic “melting pots,” frequently treated as normative reference points for theorizing mobility, integration, and multiculturalism.

By contrast, Argentina — despite having been profoundly shaped by large-scale immigration — has occupied a more marginal position in broader theoretical debates. This relative neglect is striking given the country’s centrality to transatlantic migration histories and its complex processes of nation-building, cultural transformation, and identity formation.

This volume seeks to recalibrate the geographical coordinates of migration studies by foregrounding Welsh, Irish, and Polish communities in Argentina. Through this shift in perspective, it aims to contribute to a more spatially balanced understanding of migratory processes and to examine the specific forms through which diasporic formations took shape in the South American context. Particular attention will be paid to the cultural practices, institutional networks, and representational strategies through which these communities articulated belonging, memory, and difference, thereby expanding current frameworks for thinking about diaspora beyond their habitual Anglophone frames of reference.

The volume is conceived as an interdisciplinary collection. Migration and diaspora constitute complex, long-term processes shaped by historical, political, cultural, social, and linguistic factors. In recognition of this complexity, the volume is not confined to a single disciplinary framework or to a particular type of source material.

Areas of interest

We particularly welcome contributions that adopt perspectives from history, migration studies, postcolonial studies, media studies, and literary studies, as well as interdisciplinary approaches combining different types of sources and methodologies.

Although the volume has a broad scope, the case studies share common questions: migration routes, motivations, political, economic, and cultural causes, identity, language, culture, and transnational connections. Bringing together different disciplines and national cases enables comparison and dialogue, while still supporting focused, detailed research.

This call is addressed to researchers in the humanities and social sciences, including historians, literary and cultural scholars, linguists, and sociologists. We particularly welcome submissions from:

• Scholars working in Welsh, Irish, or Polish studies
• Spanish-speaking scholars focusing on Argentina or Latin America
• Scholars of Polish studies and Polish philology
• Researchers interested in comparative or interdisciplinary work

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• History of migration and settlement in Argentina
• Community life and social structures
• Literary texts, cultural production
• Cultural practices, education, religion, memory, and representations of the ‘mother countries’
• Linguistic and sociolinguistic issues (language contact, bilingualism, language shift or maintenance)
• Reception of migrant groups in Argentine society
• Relations with ‘mother countries’, cooperation and political representation, including questions of citizenship.
• Comparative approaches
• Interdisciplinary contributions or papers combining different types of sources and methodologies are especially welcome

Submissions

Interested authors should submit 500-word proposals and 200-word academic biographies as Word documents to María Eugenia Crusetand Aleksander Bednarski by May 15, 2026. Please also direct questions regarding potential submission topics to diaspora.argentina@gmail.com.

Authors will be notified by July 10, 2026, whether their proposals are accepted. For those invited to contribute, completed essays of approximately 7,000 words will be due by September 15, 2026.

We welcome contributions from both established and emerging scholars for this collection. We encourage submissions from multiple perspectives and disciplines, emphasizing the diversity of approaches to the subject. Please note that only previously unpublished work will be considered for inclusion.

Our anticipated publication year for the collection is 2027.