AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice and Community
AAPI Nexus is a peer-reviewed, national journal published by UCLA's Asian American Studies Center focusing on policies, practices and community research to benefit the nation's burgeoning Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. The journal's mission is to facilitate an exchange of ideas and research findings that strengthens the efforts through policy and practice to tackle the pressing societal problems facing Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Since the inception of ethnic studies, the goal of "serving the community" has been at the heart of Asian American Studies and Pacific Islander Studies.
Previous issues have focused on Community Development, Civil Rights, Voting, Employment, Health, Youth, and Art and Cultural Institutions. The table of contents and editors' note for previous volumes can be found at:
http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/aascpress/nexuscollection.htm.
For 2008, AAPI Nexus will publish a special volume focusing on issues, challenges and opportunities related to the impacts of aging and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Professor Jim Lubben (Boston College) and Professor Namkee G. Choi (U.T. Austin) are the consulting Guest Editors working with the editorial staff on this volume.
Articles for the volume on aging may address the following questions, but are not limited
to these:
- How well are elderly AAPIs faring?
- Financially after retirement? What are their sources of income, and how does this vary by nativity and length in the United States?
- By insurance coverage for health?
- By Quality of Life indicators for emotional, physical and social well-being?
- What are the roles and responsibilities of adult AAPIs in the care of their elderly parents? What are the influences of inter-generational cultural and class differences?
- What social, health and supportive services are available to elderly AAPIs? What are the cultural, linguistic and economic barriers?
- How have recent changes in immigration and welfare policies affected elderly AAPIs?
- What roles have AAPI community-based organizations played in providing services and/or advocating got policies and legislations that benefit elderly AAPIs?
If you are interested in submitting a manuscript, please submit a letter of intent with the title and a very short descriptive paragraph to the editors for review. If you have a prepared paper, you may also submit the paper at the same time.
We invite academic researchers, practitioners, and community leaders to submit manuscripts. Along with articles based on original research, AAPI Nexus publishes Practitioner's Essays from professionals and community leaders, and Resource Papers that present new statistics on AAPIs or discuss applied research methods. For submission guidelines, please visit: http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/aascpress/pressresources.htm. Click on STYLE SHEET for Article Submissions (PDF Document).
Deadline for Letter of Intent: January 31, 2008
Deadline for Manuscript Submissions: April 30, 2008
Earlier submission of a Letter or Manuscript is encouraged. Please send letter of intent to AAPI Nexus. Internet communication is preferred. The Journal's email address is:
Melany Dela Cruz -Viesca (nexus@aasc.ucla.edu)
and send an electronic copy to:
Marjorie Kagawa-Singer (Marjorie.kagawasinger@gmail.com)
Professor Jim Lubben (lubben@bc.edu)
Professor Namkee G. Choi (nchoi@mail.utexas.edu)
For regular mail, send all correspondence to:
Melany Dela Cruz -Viesca, Managing Editor
AAPI Nexus
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
3230 Campbell Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095 |
