2024 Migration Studies Call for Special Issue Proposals

Migration Studies is now accepting Special Issue proposals. Proposals and queries should be submitted to Prof. Maria Koinova by 1 December 2024.

Migration Studies typically publishes one call for special issues per year. This page will be updated with the relevant information.

The 2023–24 call for special issues is available for your reference below. To see past published special issues, please visit this page: Migration Studies Special Issues | Migration Studies | Oxford Academic (oup.com). For more information on the journal, please see here.

Migration Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality papers in the broad field of migration, including gender, policies, transnationalism, diaspora, integration, development, domestic and international politics and other migration-related issues around the world.

The call is open to all themes, theoretical approaches and methodologies that have the potential to shape the field of migration studies and to promote new intellectual agendas. We particularly encourage proposals by and/or featuring scholars from the Global South, Global East and non-anglophone areas which contain innovative streams of research.

A maximum of fifteen papers are expected for the published within a Special Issue, including an introduction laying out the importance and timeliness of the key themes, debates, and questions addressed by the Special Issue, as well as an overview of the key findings of the collection of articles. Each proposal should state the ways it advances the field as a whole, how individual papers address the special issue’s central themes and questions, and how individual papers and/or the whole Special Issue advance theories, methodologies and/or empirical evidence that matter to the field of migration studies.

Proposals should contain the following:

1. A clear title and rationale explaining the aims and objectives of the Special Issue (500 words maximum)

2. An explicit statement of how the Special issue contributes and relates to extant research in the field of migration (700 words maximum);

3. Abstracts of all the papers which include essential elements about research questions; main concepts and/or theories; cases, methods, and data (if empirical); and key findings or conclusions (500 words maximum);

4. Short biographies of all authors and guest editors (200 words maximum);

5. A detailed timeline of anticipated submission and review milestones;

6. A short statement identifying any potential risks to the proposed timeline, and steps the guest editors have taken or will take to mitigate these risks.

The proposals and queries should be submitted to Prof. Maria Koinova by 1 December 2024.