We’re excited to announce the theme of the next SpeakFreely print issue:
“Where do you think you’re going?”
The Freedom of Movement and Migration Issue
This edition will explore ideas around migration, borders, travel, exile, belonging, and the right to move freely in many aspects, physically, economically & philosophically.
We’re now officially open for submissions!
If you have something to say about freedom of movement, whether it’s a personal essay, policy critique, cultural analysis, or something more creative, we want to read it.
Deadline for submissions: August 15
$50 honorarium for each published piece
Please submit via this form
Whether you’ve written for SpeakFreely before or this would be your first time, we’d love to hear from you. Please note that we cannot publish every submission and the selection process will be highly competitive—so write like your legacy depends on it!
Here are some potential topics you might cover:
- Historical development of border controls
- Economic impacts of migration
- Changes in Immigration policy in Europe
- The ethics of national borders
- Statelessness and the right to asylum
- National security
- Temporary migration, guest worker programs, and circular migration
- Digital nomads and the rise of borderless work
- Citizenship models: birthright, naturalisation, residency-based
- Population ageing and migration as a demographic solution
- Migration and social cohesion
- Private sponsorship and community-based migration models
- Other topics relating to free movement and migration
Submit your piece for the issue!
Read some of our previous articles to get a feel for the subjects we cover and the style of writing we prefer:
Let us know if you have any questions and feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested!
