Migration Politics publishes innovative and inspiring contributions on the politics involved in representing, controlling and managing migration. The journal is not a generalist migration journal, nor a topical political science journal. Instead, we feature articles that promote interdisciplinary conversations on the relationship between migration and political institutions, processes and power. Papers should present original empirical and/or theoretical analysis and be methodologically rigorous.

Key areas of theoretical and empirical development that we strive to promote, are work:

• Expanding the geographical ambit of research on migration politics beyond Western Europe and North America to sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern and Central Europe, MENA and the Pacific;
• Encouraging reflection on the role that migration scholarship plays in migration politics;
• Examining how migration politics interacts with other political fields such as international relations, security, trade, social security, labour market regulation, (health) care, housing, and education;
• Establishing a conversation between different strands of the migration studies literature, for example by bringing into dialogue the ethnographic research on the everyday agency of migrants with the political science literature on citizenship and migration politics, or by bridging the divide between the study of race and racialisation and the study of migration politics;
• Theorizing and empirically investigating connections between the governance of populations and mobilities past and present, including in colonial contexts;
• Applying a gendered/queer perspective to migration politics, for example by exploring how the regulation of migration intersects with the regulation of gender and sexuality.