Migration Politics Residential Fellowships
The editorial team of the journal Migration Politics warmly welcome paper proposals for our authors’ fellowship in residence programme. We are seeking submissions from scholars conducting innovative and inspiring research on the politics involved in representing, controlling, and managing migration. We want to promote work that dares to bring in new theoretical or conceptual angles to Migration Studies by engaging with wider theories and debates in political science, sociology, law and other disciplines. We encourage submissions that provide primarily conceptual or philosophical contributions. In empirically oriented work, we seek to promote high standards of methodological transparency and rigour (including through appendices and data deposits).
Successful applicants will spend a one week intensive fellowship in residence period to develop their ideas into a manuscript ready for submission. Scholars taking part in the author fellowship residency programme are expected to submit their papers for review to the Migration Politics journal that offers rigorous, single-blind peer review and full open access without article processing charges (platinum open access).
The residency will take place in Amsterdam in October or November 2025. It is hosted by Senior Editorial Fellows Saskia Bonjour, Evelyn Ersanilli, and Darshan Vigneswaran. Residents will interact with members of the Amsterdam Research Centre for Migration (ARC-M).
Proposal deadline: 15 March 2025 (end of day, wherever you are)
The author residency programme is open to scholars with a PhD at all career stages as well as to PhD candidates.
For more information read our FAQ, or watch the webinar with advice on how to structure a proposal + Q&A.
You are warmly invited to submit your paper proposal no later than 15 March 2025 (end of day, wherever you are) through this form
The proposal (1,000-1,500 words) should contain:
- The core question/thesis of the paper
- The expected contribution to ongoing scholarly debates (explain which debates the paper connects to, citing relevant work and explain how it connects to these debates)
- The methodological approach
- The empirical material. Please note: data collection should be completed before submitting a paper proposal to Migration Politics residency programme
- Preliminary findings
- References (these do not count towards the word limit)
In the submission form you’ll be asked to list:
- Your name, institutional affiliation, position, and contact email
- A brief description of data used for the paper (in case of an empirical paper)
- Confirm that your contribution is original and not under review at another journal or academic publisher and confirm that it won’t be submitted to another journal or publisher until either the proposal was rejected for the residency or, in case you are offered a residency fellowship, after rejection by Migration Politics.
- Your availability to attend the residency in October or November 2025.
