Whitley College’s Dr Titus S. Olorunnisola, together with Whitley Principal, Associate Professor Darrell Jackson, is inviting scholars and practitioners to contribute to a forthcoming edited volume, Migration and Religion in Australia and the Pacific: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, to be published by Springer Nature.
The volume builds on the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on Migration and Religion in Australia and the Pacific, hosted at Whitley College. It seeks to explore how migration and religion shape identity, belonging, politics, and social change across a rapidly transforming region.
Bringing migration studies and religious studies into interdisciplinary dialogue, the collection will address pressing contemporary issues including climate displacement, labour mobility, border politics, and increasing religious diversity. With a distinctive regional focus, it will foreground diasporic and Pacific perspectives while offering valuable insights for scholars, policymakers, faith communities, and practitioners.
Contributions have already been received on language integration and migration, biblical studies, and reverse mission and migration. The editors are now seeking additional chapters to strengthen the thematic balance of the collection.
Submissions are welcomed on themes including:
- Climate change and migration
- Demographics of religious migration and diaspora
- Digital and online diasporic religion
- Gender, sexuality and migrant religious experience
- Indigenous spirituality in response to migrant religions
- Youth and intergenerational change
- Health, chaplaincy and migrant wellbeing
- Second-generation migrants
- The economic impact of religious migrants
- Politics and the optics of religious migration
- Migrants and human or religious rights
- Migrants and socio-religious cohesion
- Migrants and religious nationalism
- Migration and religious fundamentalism
- Interfaith relations
- Arts and cultural expression
- Intersections of culture, religion and migration
- Intercultural understanding and dialogue.
A firm agreement is in place with Springer Nature to publish the volume, with peer review commencing shortly after the abstract submission deadline.
Key Dates
Abstract submission deadline: 31 July 2026
Notification of acceptance: 14 August 2026
Full paper submission: 30 November 2026
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts of approximately 250 words should be submitted by 31 July 2026 and will be screened on receipt. Full papers should be no more than 5,000 words and must adhere to APA 7th edition referencing style.
For enquiries or to submit an abstract, please contact Dr Titus S. Olorunnisola at tolorunnisola@whitley.edu.au.
Whitley College warmly encourages scholars, researchers, and practitioners whose work intersects with migration, religion, culture, and social change to consider contributing to this significant interdisciplinary project.