Current Issue

Nordic Journal of Migration Research invites proposals from researchers interested in guest editing a Special Issue to be published in 2024. The deadline for sending a proposal is September 15th, 2022. NJMR special issue proposals should be sent to the editors-in-chief: Lena Näre (lena.nare@helsinki.fi), Dalia Abdelhady (dalia.abdelhady@soc.lu.se) and Nahikari Irastorza (nahikari.irastorza@mau.se).

The proposal should include:

• The title and description of the theme, including a description of the contribution the proposed issue will make to the field of migration research more broadly (1-2 pages). Please note that a Special Issue cannot be a mere collection of articles on the same topic. It is the guest editors’ responsibility to ensure the coherence and quality of the special issue as a whole as well as the individual contributions before submission and during the review process.
• Short bios of guest editors as well as contact details.
• Abstracts of the articles (250-350 words) to be included in the issue, contact details and bios of all the authors.
• Suggested timetable where you indicate clearly when you plan to (i) receive the first and final drafts of full papers; (ii) submit them for external review; and (ii) make the final submission to the journal. Please note that the entire process from first submissions to revision(s) to acceptance to copyediting to publication takes 15-18 months.

Normally, Special Issues consist of a maximum of 6 articles (8,000 words) as well as a shorter Introduction (4,000 words). Potential special issue editors may want to collect special issue articles in different ways. Those who want to announce an open call for abstracts should not mention NJMR in the call. However, if the call is sent to a selected, closed group of potential authors, NJMR can be mentioned as the intended journal to propose a submission, making it also clear that the call is not made on behalf of NJMR. In all cases, it is important to inform the potential authors that all articles will go through a double-blind peer-review process, which will determine the eventual outlook of the issue. Only papers that pass the review process and are revised accordingly can be published.

The peer-review process in NJMR special issues works on three levels: (1) The guest editors pre-review the articles and comment on the articles, after which (2) each article will be sent to external referees (this is a double-blind process) by the Managing Editor. (3) After this referee process, the members of the editorial team will also comment on the coherence of the whole issue in addition to commenting on individual papers. The publication decision is made by the editors-in-chief.

As of 11th April, we're happy to announce that the Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) from Scopus have accepted NJMR into their database. The process to get the journal content listed in the Scopus database will now begin.