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A Special Issue of South Asian Diaspora will be published in 2015 on “Development and Distress: South Asians in the Persian Gulf”.The special issue will explore the importance of immigration to the Persian Gulf in the 21st century. It will focus on the themes such as gender and human trafficking; issues of return and remigration; implication of immigration to the homeland and the host society; and policy perspective. All invited and contributed manuscripts to this special issue will be peer reviewed. For guidelines of how to prepare the manuscript, please visit the journal website:http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rsadManuscripts for the Special Issue should be submitted no later than March 31, 2014. Submission of manuscripts through electronic mail (preferably as MS Wordattachment) to the Editor (jsadeditor@yahoo.com) is especially encouraged. Alternatively, please submit three printed copies and an electronic version (MSWord format on a CD) of the manuscript to:Dr. Ajaya K. SahooCentre for Study of Indian DiasporaSchool of Social SciencesUniversity of HyderabadHyderabad-500046Andhra Pradesh, INDIAPhone: +91 40 23133402 (O)Fax: +91 40 23011043 (O)