Themes may include but are not limited to:

• Coercion and exploitation

• Comparative analyses of humanitarian responses

• Comparative imagology and representations of the Other in literature, film, song and other media

• Cultural identity

• Cultures and Sub-cultures

• Empire, contact and mobility

• English-language translations of literature

• Family, children, and migrant mobility

• Fiction, film, or nonfictional texts in the study of cross-cultures

• Gender identity

• Gender, migration, and cross-cultural encounters

• History and present of mass mobility

• Human rights rhetoric

• Identity and Critical theory

• Identity and Identifications: theory and methodology

• Identity and Memory

• Identity and Nationalism

• Influences on music, literature or popular culture

• Issues of immigration and emigration

• Labour, migration and cross-cultural encounters

• Literary presentations of culture, politics or literature

• Literature and Empowerment

• Literature: Space for the Marginalized

• Media and Identity

• Metaphors of crisis and disaster

• Migration, borders, and border securitization

• Migration, health, and disability

• Minorities and Literature

• National and regional governmental responses

• Nationality, citizenship, statelessness, documentation, and identity

• Public Responses to human mobility

• Race, ethnicity and citizenship

• Role of imagery, media, social media of mobility and crisis

• Role of NGOs and other non-state agents in migration management

• Teaching Literature to the Underprivileged

• The arts, literature and Identity

• The Margin and the Canon

• The Margin vs. the Mainstream

• The Margin: Negotiating Spaces

• The Margin: Spaces within Spaces

• The Marginalized in Translation

• Ties between literary and political relations in cross-cultures

• Voices of the Marginalized

• War, migration and cross-cultural contact