International Review of Migration and Refugee Studies is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open access and online interdisciplinary journal established to enable a thorough study of seemingly divergent and mutually interactive issues surrounding the social factors in human migration. All contributions go through a rigorous peer-review process and the journal is open access -i.e. cost-free- for contributors and readers thanks to the generous support of the Turkish National Science Foundation (TÜBİTAK) and Gaziantep University.   

IRMRS is international in scope and welcomes articles on migration and refugee studies from the social scientists all around the world. The journal especially well receives contributions as a result of original empirical research that is oriented towards contemporary developments in the field of migration studies. IRMRS is published by the Gaziantep University Institute for Migration and the unique program of the institute that primarily focuses on research-oriented applied social scientific approach resonates with the journal.

The journal covers subject areas such as sociology of migration, demographics of migration, refugee status under different legal and national contexts, social work and immigrants’ interactions with everyday life, and furthermore, contributions from a vast array of social sciences including but not limited to cultural, legalistic, historical, spatial, political, social and economic studies are eagerly sought by the journal. 

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