Editorial [Mediterranean Journal of Migration]

Abstract

The launch of a new journal is always a significant and exciting event and is especially welcome in the burgeoning field of migration studies. The Mediterranean Journal of Migration will play a major role in showcasing scholarship on migration in a region of global significance for contemporary (and past) population movements. Let me reflect for a moment on the publishing landscape for journals on migration. Five journals stand out as well-known outlets with a global remit for papers on migration. Three of these are long-established: the International Migration Review, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and International Migration (all of them going since the 1960s or 1970s). Two, Migration Studies and Comparative Migration Studies, are more recent (both since 2013). Then there are two important journals which do not have the word ‘migration’ in their titles but which have the majority of their papers on migration topics – these are Ethnic and Racial Studies and Population, Space and Place.