Progress of migration scholarship over 60 years of International Migration
by İçduygu, A., J. Rath, D. Sert and A. Üstübici (2021)
International Migration, 59(6): 3-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12934
A posting on Facebook earlier this year –showcasing the 60th anniversary logo of International Migration –elicited one viewer to exclaim: ‘Congrats on 60 years of migration scholarship!’ Such kind words suggest that the Journal has been a self-evident outlet and a place for the exchange of scholarly knowledge on issues related to international migration and population diversity. Most scholars today have a clear picture of what that entails: it pertains to the outcomes of research that have followed internationally accepted academic standards, applied rigorous
methodologies, displayed soundness and precision in terms of planning, data collection, analysis and reporting; that explored and further developed a unique theoretical argument, and that has undergone strict peer-reviewing procedures before finally reaching the stage of publication. Indeed, that is exactly what International Migration is practicing nowadays, as can be witnessed by the collections of fifteen or more articles in each of the six issues in each annual volume as well as the much higher number of submissions that are being rejected during the editorial process
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