The Boston University Center on Forced Displacement calls for proposals for an edited collection on US-Mexico and EU-Balkans Bordering Practices and Lives in the Borderlands - under contract with Anthem Press. The book examines the landscape, economies, protests, and forms of creativity that emerge from current border management systems in the EU and USA borderlands. The book will be written for an interdisciplinary readership and will be accessible to those with a general interest in migration and the movement of people across borders.  

We are interested in a wide range of types of writing and genres, including articles, essays, short stories, artwork, and others. We seek proposals for chapters discussing borders from any (inter)disciplinary perspective, with a particular interest in submissions on these topics:

- comparing the EU and the USA border regimes;
- deaths of migrants in the USA and/or EU borderlands;
- the ethics of border enforcement and externalization;
- debates about open borders and the human right to mobility;
- displacement spurred by climate change and/or economic disaster.

Our interdisciplinary, collaborative research team includes scholars, students, artists, and practitioners from the United States, European Union, Western Balkans, and Mexico. We hope contributors will be interested in collaborative writing and interdisciplinary exploration. If your proposal is accepted, you will be invited to workshops and writing hunkers with the project coordinators and other contributors to the volume.