Editor of the Special Issue: Vjeran Kursar (email: kursar@gmail.com, vkursar@ffzg.hr)
Editor in Chief: Inga Vilogorac Brčić
This issue of the Journal of the Institute of Croatian History is dedicated to migration in diachronic perspective, from antiquity to present-time. The starting point is the assumption that major patterns, as well as social function of migration, did not change substantially over time, despite significant alterations of external factors, technological progress, quantitative volume, as well as changes and acceleration of the rhythm of migration (see e.g., Patrick Manning, “Cross-Community Migration: A Distinctive Human Pattern”, Social Evolution & History, Vol. 5 No. 2, September 2006, pp. 24– 54). In the spatial context, the focus is on migrations between the Middle East, the Balkans, and East- and Central Europe, including the Eastern Mediterranean, embracing an area that represents an “intercontinental bridge” between not only geographic units, but specific cultural, historic, political, religious, societal, ethnic, and even civilizational entities.
The aim of the present issue is not only to determine the directions of migrant movement (origin and final destinations), but to analyze the nature of migration, its causes and effects they had on migrants, as well as their original and host communities (and/or states). Various types of migration will be taken into consideration: external and internal (inside and outside the boundaries of a community/state), permanent and temporary (nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralists, travelling merchants and artists, seasonal workers, etc.), internal and external colonization (peaceful and violent – conquest and foreign invasion), cross-cultural or cross community migrations, in which individuals or groups leave own cultural community to join a new one, and the like.
Suggested topics:
- Political factors and migration; political refugees, defectors, renegades
- Wars and armed conflicts and migration
- Ecological and economic factors and migration (draughts, diseases, hunger, poverty, economic crisis)
- Internal migration: urbanization, colonization, pastoralism
- Religion, religious propaganda and migration
- Migration and demographic trends
- Societal, ethnic and confessional changes resulting from migration
- Cultural impact of migration (everyday life, dwelling, clothing, architecture, cuisine, music, etc.)
- Technological and cultural transfers
- Levantines: European migrations and colonies in the Ottoman Levant (urban centers, port cities, etc.)
- Human capital and migrations
The deadline for the submission of the articles is 1 August 2019. The articles should be submitted to the email address of Vjeran Kursar – kursar@gmail.com or vkursar@ffzg.hr.
Recommended length of the articles: up to 28800 or 5000 words.
Languages: English and Croatian.
Detailed instructions for the authors: https://hrcak.srce.hr/upute/guide_authors_Journal__Institute_of_Croatian_History.pdf
The Journal of the Institute of Croatian History is an interdisciplinary scientific journal which publishes scientific and professional papers from the field of historical and complementary humanistic sciences, especially archaeology, art history, ethnology, and anthropology. It is open for experts in humanistic sciences of all profiles in Croatia and abroad. It is published by the Institute of Croatian History of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. The journal is indexed in the following databases: Web of Science – Emerging Sources Citation Index, ERIH PLUS, Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ, EBSCO Historical Abstracts,EBSCO America: History & Life, Scopus.
More information on the Journal of the Institute of Croatian History: https://radovi-zhp.eu/en/ For any further information please contact the editor of the special issue Vjeran Kursar via email: kursar@gmail.com or vkursar@ffzg.hr