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Journal Policies

•  The journal supports open access policy and every content on the journal is not protected by any paywall for greater outreach to the academic community.
   
• The journal abides by international copyright rules and COPE guidelines on originality of research, access to data, non-acceptability of concurrent publication and proper acknowledgement of sources.
   
• The essays and reviews published in the journal can be reproduced in full or as an extract or in part with proper citation to the original publication.
   
• Essays and creative fictions and non-fictions selected from the workshops and conferences organized by CRG, the institution holds the first right to publish the articles, and the author cannot publish it elsewhere without the prior permission of the institute.
   
• Essays that are solicited through CFA or accepted through unsolicited submissions, both CRG and the author will co-share the copyright, authorship and contributorship as and well defined by the existing policies.
   
• To uphold the originality of research, if at any point of time, both pre- and post-publication stage, the institute is made aware of any malpractice that goes against the right of ethical publishing, the institute holds the rights to remove the publication from its list.
   
• All articles are subject to research ethics, plagiarism check, data usage, peer review process etc as guide by COPE.
   
• Commentaries on post publication articles are welcomed by the institute as form as generative dialogue in the field of migration studies.
   
• Every issue of the journal is subject to archiving with the special library of CRG on migration studies.
   
• There is no Article Processing Charge (APC) for any publication with the journal and does not solicitate any fees from author to publish their articles. Essays are solely selected on their research value.
   
• Declarations in writing are to be made in case of usage of AI and Gen AI to maintain the integrity of the journal, transparency and author accountability. It is the decision of the Editorial Board to the extent of such material can be included in essays. GenAI tools are not permitted to be listed as authors in the byline of scholarly work.
   

• There can be one or more than one authors for a single entry in the journal. In the initial stage author/s are to sign the contract of authorship of the essay and list the order of co-authors in case there are more than one author. Once the contract is signed by the author/s the order of co-authors cannot be changed and remains fixed in time. The affiliations of the author/s cannot be changed after final proof is submitted by the author.