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From http://www.migrationpolicy.org/about/call-papers-research-initiative-supporting-dual-language-learner-success-superdiverse-early

The National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is launching an interdisciplinary research initiative to examine policies and practices that effectively promote academic success and healthy socioemotional development in multilingual and superdiverse contexts for young Dual Language Learners (DLLs).

This initiative is focusing on superdiversity within early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs, which is an increasingly common phenomenon, but one without a clear definition or a sufficient research base. For example, the research is clear on the benefits and characteristics of well-implemented bilingual and dual-language ECEC programs in settings with a preponderance of speakers of one home language, but there is little research on effective policies and practices where no single language is spoken by most or all DLLs and few or no teachers are proficient in students’ home languages. Likewise, little is known about the effects of other aspects of superdiversity, such as race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, immigration status, parents’ education level, religion, and so on.

In order to build the research base on ECEC in superdiverse contexts, MPI is soliciting papers by scholars working in child development, education, sociology, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, public policy, migration, and other relevant fields.

All submissions must be made by February 10, 2017, with final drafts of selected papers due in October 2017.

View the full call for papers at http://www.migrationpolicy.org/about/call-papers-research-initiative-supporting-dual-language-learner-success-superdiverse-early