Migration Letters is an international biannual peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 of migration

Human migration

Human migration is physical movement by humans from one area to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups. Historically this movement was nomadic, often causing significant conflict with the indigenous population and their displacement or cultural assimilation. Only a few nomadic...

 studies published since 2004. Topics covered range from internal migration to transnational mobility and from voluntary to forced migration

Forced migration

Forced migration refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region...

. Migration Letters is indexed and abstracted by the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is a bibliography for social science and interdisciplinary research. The database focuses on the social science disciplines of anthropology, economics, politics and sociology, and related interdisciplinary subjects, such as development...

. Notable contributors to the journal include Ron J. Johnston

Ron J. Johnston

Ronald John Johnston, OBE, AcSS, FBA is a British human geographer, noted for elaborating his discipline's foundations, particularly its history and nature, and for his contributions to urban social geography and electoral geography...

 (Victoria Medal

Victoria Medal (geography)

The Victoria Medal is an award presented by the Royal Geographical Society. It is awarded "for conspicuous merit in research in geography" and has been given since 1902.-Past recipients:...

in Geography, 1990), Caroline Brettell, Gordon F. De Jong, and Thomas Faist.