Florent Chossière (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Géographie-cités, France) and Carlo Handy Charles (University of Windsor, Canada and University of Michigan, USA) launch a call for papers for a proposal of special issue on the topic “Queer Migrants in Transnational Social Spaces: Sexualised Geographies of Power” to be submitted to the journal Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.
Abstracts of proposed articles are expected by 17 October.
Submission Guidelines and Timeline
- We intend to submit the special issue proposal to the journal Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. The proposal will first be assessed for publication by the journal based on selected article abstracts. Please ensure that your proposal and abstract fall within the call for papers but also the scientific scope of the journal.
- Abstract submission: Please submit a 500-word abstract summarizing your argument, approach, methodology, queer migrant population, and fit within the issue’s themes by October 17, 2025, to guest editors florent.chossiere@parisgeo.cnrs.fr and carlo.charles@uwindsor.ca.
- Abstract selection: abstracts will be selected and contributors notified by November 3, 2025. Special issue proposal will be submitted to the journal by November 14, 2025.
- First full manuscripts must be submitted for review by guest editors by March 16, 2026.
- Feedback on full manuscripts from guest editors will be shared with contributors by April 17, 2026.
- Revised manuscripts will be submitted to the journal by May 29, 2026. All articles will undergo the journal’s standard blind peer-review process.
