Call for Submissions

Reaching Regions

Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Migration

Reaching Regions is seeking outreach-oriented submissions for a special issue on Migration.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Economic impacts of migration on sending and receiving regions
  • Internal migration trends and their causes and consequences
  • International migration causes and consequences
  • State and local public policy impacts on migration
  • Climate and environmental migration
  • Migration over the life course
  • Human capital and migration
  • Job search and migration
  • Other drivers of migration and consequences for migrants

Deadline for submission to the special issue is June 15, 2026.

Reaching Regions is the official outreach journal of the North American Regional Science
Council. Reaching Regions is open access, peer-reviewed, and publishes outreach articles
written in non-technical language targeted to non-academic audiences.

Contributions may include original descriptive analyses, non-technical summaries of published
academic research, research syntheses, and case studies with broader implications for North
American regions.

Articles should follow submission instructions and be submitted via the journal website:
https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/rreg/submissions/

The submission fee will be waived for all articles submitted to the special issue.

For questions contact the Editors: