International Research in Children’s Literature

Know More About Event : Gain more knowledge on International Research in Children’s Literature, submit your paper for this conference.The recent IRSCL 2025 Congress, titled “Borders, Migration, and Liminality in Children’s Literature,” held in Salamanca (Spain), offered a unique opportunity to examine these themes from a multiplicity of perspectives — literary, aesthetic, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical. Building on the dialogues initiated at the congress, this Special Issue invites contributions that explore how children’s and young adult literature (and related media) negotiate, represent, and theorize experiences of migration and border-crossing, and how they open up liminal spaces for the redefinition of childhood in a changing world. We particularly welcome contributions that explore the intersections between literary forms and wider cultural fields, including audiovisual narratives, performance arts, digital media, multimodal storytelling, and transmedia narratives. Moreover, this Call emerges at a time of profound social and political reconfigurations worldwide, and we therefore encourage submissions that engage with critical theories such as decolonial and anticolonial studies, diaspora studies, migration studies, border studies, queer theory, Indigenous epistemologies, critical posthumanism, and multimodal analysis.