Migration and ethnicity are current and well-established areas of contemporary social research. New phenomena and processes in the world – globalization, increasing spatial mobility of people, delocalization and relocalization of culture – are the reason for the growing scientific interest in issues of migration, ethnicity and identity. The journal Migracijske i etničke teme / Migration and Ethnic Themes opens the possibility of exchanging ideas, public debates and interdisciplinary dialogue to researchers dealing with this topic.
The journal Migracijske i etničke teme / Migration and Ethnic Themes primarily publishes scientific articles on migration, migration-related issues and demographic changes, together with articles on different aspects of ethnicity and identity in any international, national or cross-national context. Contributions reflect the theoretical advances and empirical analyses and studies within a broad range of disciplinary approaches.
Being an international journal, its sphere of interest truly covers the entire world: papers are published in Croatian and English, and the editorial board may also decide to publish some of them in other languages. The international character of the journal is defined both by the subject matter of the articles and by the international composition of the authors, reviewers, editorial board and publishing council.
The journal publishes primarily scientific articles, but also other contributions of scientific and professional interest: essays, professional papers, book reviews, notes on scientific meetings, etc.
All articles have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double-blind refereeing by a minimum of two anonymous reviewers.
The journal does not have article submission and article processing charges.
The complete texts of the articles are available on the website of Hrčak – Portal of Croatian scientific and professional journals and on the web pages of the journal editing system (OJS).
The journal provides open access to its entire content. The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, as the publisher, supports the Croatian Declaration on Open Access.
Editor-in-Chief
Margareta Gregurović, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Executive Editor
Simona Kuti, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Editorial Secretary
Viktorija Kudra Beroš, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
E-mail: met@imin.hr
Former editors-in-chief
Sanja Klempić Bogadi (2013–2020)
Sanja Lazanin (2009–2012)
Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes (2005–2008)
Laura Šakaja (2002–2004)
Emil Heršak (1990–2001)
Milan Mesić (1985–1989)
Editorial Board
Florian Bieber, Center for Southeast European Studies, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria
Hariz Halilovich, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Sanja Klempić Bogadi, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Sanja Lazanin, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Mojca Pajnik, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Igor Štiks, Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade
Marko Valenta, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Daphne Naomi Winland, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada
Drago Župarić-Iljić, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes (Zadar)
Petr Dostál (Praha)
Emil Heršak (Zagreb)
Marie-Antoinette Hily (Poitiers)
Vjeran Katunarić (Zadar)
Joanna Kurczewska (Warszawa)
Armando Montanari (Roma)
Mirjana Morokvašić-Müller (Paris)
Rainer Münz (Berlin)
Maria Nazaré Oliveira Roca (Lisboa)
Rinus Penninx (Amsterdam)
Sonja Podgorelec (Zagreb)
Sergej Romanenko (Moskva)
Carl-Ulrik Schierup (Norrköping)
Laura Šakaja (Zagreb)
Jernej Zupančič (Ljubljana)
The scientific journal Migration and Ethnic Themes was published quarterly from 1985 to 2009 (until 2000, entitled Migration Themes: A Journal for the Study of Migration and Ethnic Studies). From 2010 to 2020, it was published in three issues a year, and from 2021 in two issues a year.
The journal is indexed in:
CAB Abstracts (Wallingford, UK)
CEEAS – Central & Eastern European Academic Source (EBSCO, Ipswich, USA)
CEEOL – Central and Eastern European Online Library (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals (IS4OA, UK)
EBSCO Essentials (EBSCO, Ipswich, USA)
ERIH PLUS – European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NSD, Bergen, Norway)
HeinOnline (Getzville, New York, USA)
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest, Ann Arbor, USA)
Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts (ProQuest, Ann Arbor, USA);
Political Science Complete (EBSCO, Ipswich, USA);
SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO, Ipswich, USA);
Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest, Ann Arbor, USA);
Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest, Ann Arbor, USA);
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (ProQuest, Ann Arbor, USA)
GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
The journal Migracijske i etničke teme / Migration and Ethnic Themes primarily publishes scientific articles on migration, migration-related issues and demographic changes, together with articles on different aspects of ethnicity and identity in any international, national or cross-national context. Contributions reflect the theoretical advances and empirical analyses and studies within a broad range of disciplinary approaches.
The journal publishes also other contributions of scientific and professional interest: essays, professional papers, book reviews, notes on scientific meetings, etc.
Papers are published in Croatian and English, and the editorial board may also decide to publish some of them in other languages.
All articles have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double-blind refereeing by a minimum of two anonymous reviewers.
The journal does not have article submission and article processing charges.
Submission requirements
Papers are to be submitted electronically using the Open Journal System accessible on the web page of the journal: https://ojs.imin.hr/index.php/met/index. On the first page of the paper the author should write only his or her name, surname, and the name and address of the institution in which he or she is employed. It is also necessary to give an e-mail address, fax or telephone number.
It is preferable that the length of articles be 28,800–57,600 characters, including spaces. Book reviews, as well as notes, reports on scientific meetings and other subjects of interest to the journal, should be 5400–9000 characters.
Along with the paper a note on the author/authors (50–100 words) should be submitted and a summary (around 250 words) in the language of the paper and in English. When submitting article in non-English language, the author should additionally provide an extended summary (around 1500 words). The summary should contain the general presentation of the subject, the methods implemented, the main results and the conclusion(s). After the summaries, key words (up to seven) should be added in the same languages.
Graphic material (tables, illustrations, graphs, etc.) should be submitted in black and white technique and positioned within the text in their appropriate places. All illustrations, graphs and diagrams should be submitted additionally (in an adequate resolution) in their original electronic format (.jpg, .gif, .xls, etc.). If such material is taken from other sources, the author is obliged to secure copyright permission.
Publication ethic
The journal is committed to promoting the highest ethical publication practices and to maintaining the integrity of the scientific record. It is not a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics − COPE, but it follows COPE’s Code of Conduct whose policies detail what is to be expected of the key participants in the publishing process: authors, reviewers, editors and publishers. Clear guidelines for conduct of all included participants are also given within the journal’s Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
The journal publishes exclusively unpublished papers. By submitting a manuscript the authors confirm that it is the result of their own original work for which they accept scientific and ethical responsibility (especially with respect to plagiarism, forgery of data, multiple reporting or publishing identical research results, abuse of authorship, or any other form of academic misdemeanour). Additionally, by submitting a manuscript the authors confirm that the same manuscript has not been published or submitted for publishing elsewhere.
Citation and references
References in the text should be made in the following manner: (Katunarić, 1986), or (Berger and Luckmann, 1966: 91), etc. Abbreviations such as “ibid.”, “op. cit.” and similar should be avoided, if possible. All references should be cited in Roman script.
References should be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order as follows:
Book
Delanty, G. and Rumford, C. (2005). Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203640050
Article or chapter in an edited book
Pries, L. (2012). Zwischen methodologischem Nationalismus und raumlosem Kosmopolitismus – die Transnationalisierung von Vergesellschaftung, in: H.-G. Soeffner (ed.). Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen. Wiesbaden: VS Springer, 1037–1046. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18971-0_96
Article in a periodical
Podgorelec, S. and Bara, M. (2014). Žensko iskustvo migracija i starenja – pogled s otokâ, Migracijske i etničke teme, 30 (3): 379–404. https://doi.org/10.11567/met.30.3.5
Web source
Cassarino, J.-P. (2009). EU Mobility Partnerships: Expression of a New Compromise, in: Migration Policy Institute – Migration Information Source, September 2009, http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=741 (28 November 2010).
Corporate author
UNESCO (2006). UNESCO Guidelines on Intercultural Education. Paris.
If more references from one author are referred from the same year, letters are added to the date – e.g. (1991a), (1991b), etc.
Copyright notice
Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal (this applies to both print and electronic issue). By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use, with correct citation, in educational and other non-commercial settings (in accordance with CC-BY-NC Licence).
