Editors: Amelie F. Constant (George Washington University) and Denis Fougere (CREST, Ensae)

Managing Editor: Corrado Giulietti (IZA)

Associate Editors:

George Borjas (Harvard University)

Barry Chiswick (George Washington University)

Shi Li (Beijing NormalUniversity)

Alan Manning (London School of Economics)

Pia M. Orrenius (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)

Una Okonkwo Osili (Indiana University-Purdue University)

Giovanni Peri (University of California, Davis)

Jacques Poot (University of Waikato)

James P. Smith (Rand)

Yves Zenou (Stockholm University)

Aims and Scope of the IZA Journal of Migration

The IZA Journal of Migration covers all issues related to the economics of migration and ethnicity in developed or developing countries. The journal constitutes the first platform dedicated to fostering the international debate and to promoting publication excellence in the field of migration economics.

The IZA Journal of Migration publishes original theoretical and applied contributions, including topics such as the determinants and consequences of human mobility in both sending and receiving regions and the analysis of migration experience including the assimilation of migrants and their children, their occupational choices, the role of immigrants’ social networks and remittance behavior. Likewise, the journal encourages submissions of papers covering topics such as the economic analysis of ethnicity, ethnic identity, and language.

At a broader level, the IZA Journal of Migration aims at providing policymakers with evidence-based insight on the economics of internal and international migration. As such, papers which focus on the role of migration policies dealing with the monitoring of immigration flows, the process of naturalization, and asylum or illegal migration are also welcome.

The IZA Journal of Migration belongs to the family of field journals in The IZA Journal Series with Springer Verlag, also including: (i) The IZA Journal of Labor Economics, (ii) The IZA Journal of Labor Policy, (iii)The IZA Journal ofEuropean Labor Studies, and (iv) The IZA Journal of Labor & Development. Each journal publishes the limited number of 24 articles per year, where each article should be about 10,000 words (including tables, figures and references).

This will be a major joint product of the IZA network (and those who want to affiliate with IZA), which will play a central role in the evaluation process. It is an instrument of IZA to foster production of knowledge in the areas where IZA sees the need.

The aim of the new IZA Journal Series is to provide a high-quality, peer-reviewed outlet for papers, where the key characteristic of the submission procedure is the fast decision making and publication process. Acceptance/rejection decisions are expected to be made within one month; publication is expected within one month after submission of the final manuscript. The fast process from the submission to the acceptance/rejection decision is guaranteed by (i) an advanced desk rejection policy and (ii) the fact that only those papers refereed that require minor revisions are accepted while those not accepted are rejected without a detailed referee report. This requires the submission of manuscripts that are considered ready by the author(s) for direct publication if found suitable by the editorial team.

The IZA Journals will be an online journal series accessible through the SpringerOpen Access system. This implies that electronic access to all five new journals is provided freely and permanently worldwide immediately upon publication.