''International Migration'' is a quarterly

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The journal was established in 1961 under the name ''Migration''; the name was changed in 1963 to ''International Migration''. The journal publishes articles written by demographers, economists, political scientists,

sociologists This is a list of sociologists. It is intended to cover those who have made substantive contributions to social theory and research, including any sociological subfield. Scientists in other fields and philosophers are not included, unless at least ...

and other social scientists. ''International Migration'' publishes on topics relating to migration such as asylum, development, emigration, human rights, labor,

remittance A remittance is a non-commercial transfer of money by a foreign worker, a member of a diaspora community, or a citizen with familial ties abroad, for household income in their home country or homeland. Money sent home by migrants competes wit ...

and

refugees A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.

. According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 0.773, ranking it 16th out of 23 journals in the category "Demography".

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* {{Official, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-2435 English-language journals Publications established in 1961 Quarterly journals Wiley-Blackwell academic journals Works about human migration