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| Journal of Migration History | |
|---|---|
| Title | Journal of Migration History |
| Discipline | Migration studies; Social history |
| Language | English |
| Abbreviation | J. Migr. Hist. |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| History | 2015–present |
| Frequency | Triannual |
| Issn | 2050-7872 |
Journal of Migration History is a peer-reviewed academic periodical dedicated to the historical study of human mobility, displacement, diasporas, and border regimes. It publishes research that connects archival case studies, comparative histories, and transnational perspectives on movement across eras and regions. The journal situates migration histories alongside episodes such as the Great Migration (African American), the Partition of India, the Atlantic slave trade, the Irish Famine, and the Vietnam War to illuminate long-term patterns and institutional responses.
The journal was established in 2015 by scholars influenced by debates following works like E. P. Thompson's studies and initiatives from institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, the International Organization for Migration, and the American Historical Association. Founding editors drew inspiration from conferences at venues including The British Academy, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Columbia University, and University of California, Berkeley to create a venue parallel to periodicals such as Journal of Social History and Journal of Modern History. Early editorial meetings involved historians connected to projects on the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, the British Empire, the Dutch East India Company, and the Transatlantic migration networks.
The journal foregrounds comparative and transnational approaches to migration, emphasizing work tied to cases like the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Immigration Act of 1924, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Yugoslav Wars, and the Syrian Civil War. It aims to bridge scholarship on the Atlantic World, Indian Ocean world, Mediterranean migrations, Pacific migrations, and European integration by publishing research on actors such as merchants involved with the Hudson's Bay Company, indentured laborers on Mauritius, refugees from Nazi Germany, and settlers in Colonial Australia. The editorial remit includes studies on institutions like the Red Cross, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Labour Organization, and national bodies such as United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The editorial board comprises historians and social scientists associated with universities and research centers such as University of Toronto, London School of Economics, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, Leiden University, Heidelberg University, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, University of Melbourne, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Sciences Po. Board members have published on contexts including the Mexican Revolution, the Soviet deportations, the Partition of Poland (1939) and the Greek-Turkish population exchange. The journal uses double-blind peer review drawing referees who have worked on monographs about figures like Albert Einstein's migration, events like the Suez Crisis, and legal frameworks such as the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Published by Cambridge University Press, the periodical issues appear three times per year and include research articles, review essays, archival notes, and book reviews. Subscriptions and individual access often involve institutions such as the British Library, Library of Congress, Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Diet Library (Japan), and university consortia including JSTOR partners and the European Research Council's affiliated units. The journal has engaged in digital initiatives alongside projects at the International Institute of Social History and collaborative digitization with archives holding records from the Ellis Island collections and colonial repositories like the British National Archives.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in bibliographic services and databases that scholars consult alongside titles like American Historical Review and Past & Present, including indexes used by the Modern Language Association, Scopus, Web of Science, and library catalogs managed by institutions such as OCLC and the National Library of Australia. Its metadata are harvested by research infrastructures connected to the Open Researcher and Contributor ID system and discovery platforms employed by the Wellcome Library and the German National Library.
Special issues have focused on themes such as "Empires and Emigration", "Refugees and Humanitarianism", and "Gendered Migrations", featuring contributions that analyze cases like the Huguenot diaspora, the Korean War, the Algerian War, and the Nigerian Civil War. Notable articles have reinterpreted archives relating to the Trans-Saharan slave trade, the Kindertransport, the Mariel boatlift, and the Great Migration (African American), bringing new evidence from repositories such as the U.S. National Archives, the State Archives of Venice, and the Imperial War Museums.
Scholars in fields represented by journals like Ethnic and Racial Studies and the International Migration Review have cited the periodical in debates about migration policy and historical methodology, referencing its contributions to studies of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the Immigration Act of 1965, the Schengen Agreement, and comparative work on diasporas such as the Armenian diaspora, the Jewish diaspora, and the Chinese diaspora. The journal has been noted in tenure dossiers at departments including History Department, University of Oxford, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, and research centers such as the Max Planck Society for shaping archival and transnational approaches to the study of movement.
Category:Academic journals Category:Migration studies