Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

International Review of Migration and Refugee Studies is an open-access journal. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

For authors
1. The work in the submission must not have been published in anywhere (as an article in a journal, a chapter in a book or as a book, etc.)
2. We do not accept the translation of other authors’ works or book summaries.
3. The work you submit cannot be submitted to any other journal simultaneously.
4. Authors should follow the writing guidelines and submit their work completely compatible with the journal template. Editors have the right to refuse the submission before a further evaluation if the submission is not correctly edited.
5. We accept submissions if only written in English. We may reject the submission if it is not fully comprehensible. Please consider work with a native English speaker familiar with social-science jargon.
6. Authors should sign a Copyright Agreement and upload it with the submitted paper.
7. Authors should not include their names or any other information revealing their identity on the paper. Names of the authors and institutional information should be submitted separately.
For reviewers
1. Reviewers should keep information in paper confidential, should not share it with any other person except editors.
2. Reviewers should inform editors if they are not able to complete the review assigned to them in planned time.
3. Reviewers should inform editors if they notice any plagiarism or fabricated input in the paper.