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About the journal

 

Brief history, Scope and Policy

 

The Journal Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana - REMHU (ISSN 1980-8585; ISSN on-line 2237-9843) is a publication of the Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios – CSEM, from the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters of São Carlos Borromeo. The journal has adopted the rolling pass modality since 2024 and publishes academic articles on original field or theoretical research related to the topic of international migration, human mobility and refuge, and its diverse aspects.

The objective is to offer - to the academic world, intellectuals, migration policy makers and pastoral workers - an interdisciplinary analysis on themes associated to contemporary human mobility at an international level.

REMHU, based on the mission of CSEM, favors the circulation of knowledge and studies which support and promote human rights of individuals and groups in mobility.

Until December 2005, the CSEM Journal was published with the title “Scalabriniane nel mondo”. It was a biannual publication on the socio-pastoral work of the Missionary Sisters of San Carlos Borromeo, Scalabrinians at the service of migrants and refugees in different countries and realities.

From 2006, the CSEM started publishing the Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, REMHU with the current characteristics.

The abbreviated title of the journal is REMHU, which should be used in citations, footnotes, and references.

 

 

Open Science Compliance

 

REMHU endorses the principles of Open Science, allowing free access to all articles (open access), accepting the publication of preprints, encouraging the availability of programme codes and other materials underlying published articles (Open Data and Open Materials) and gradually promoting the transparency and openness of the manuscript evaluation process (Open Peer Review).

 

 

Ethics in Publication

 

REMHU, Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Mobility, aware of its academic and social responsibility as a scientific journal, affirms its commitment to ethics and the quality of its publications, from submission to publication of texts, according to the principles contained in the Codes of Ethics of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

The “Guidelines on Editor, Authors and Reviewers' Responsibilities”, “Identification of Malpractice” and “Guidelines for Action” are explained in detail in the REMHU Code of Ethics (see Publication Ethics | Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana (csem.org.br).

 

 

Indexing Sources

 
  • SciELO BRASIL, biblioteca eletrônica que abrange uma coleção selecionada de periódicos científicos brasileiros.
  • Redalyc, Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y el Caribe,España y Portugal. Impulsada por la UAEM para la difusión de la ciencia en acceso abierto.
  • DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals.
  • CLASE, base de datos bibliográfica creada en 1975 en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
  • SCOPUS  (Elsevier).
  • Dialnet, Hispanic scientific article library.
  • BIBLAT, Latin American Bibliography.
  • MIAR, Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals.
  • LATINDEX, Regional Online Information System for Latin American, Caribbean, Spanish and Portuguese Scientific Journals.
 

 

Bibliographic Journal Information

 
  • Title: REMHU, Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana
  • Abbreviated title: REMHU
  • Publisher: Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios
  • Periodicity: annual
  • Publication mode: rolling pass
  • Year of journal creation: 2006
  • e-ISSN: 2237-9843
  • Qualis Capes Evaluation (2017-2020): A2
  • Focus areas: interdisciplinarity, social sciences
  • Data repository: Scielo -  https://data.scielo.org/dataverse/brremhu
 

 

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EDITORIAL POLICY

Preprints

 

REMHU accepts manuscripts previously deposited on a Preprint Platform, provided they have not been submitted to peer review in another journal simultaneously. In this case, the author will need to communicate it to the editors at the time of submission, complete and attach the Open Science Compliance SciELO-Preprints form with the files submitted for evaluation and must inform their online location (link, DOI etc.). REMHU will adopt gradually the Open Peer Review process, following the criteria stipulated by the publications covered by SciELO.

 

 

Peer Review Process

 

The journal REMHU publishes national and international contributions (Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, and French) with the objective of making available interdisciplinary studies and in depth analysis about themes related to contemporary human mobility at an international level, such as, migrations, refugees, human trafficking, displaced persons, migration policies and legislation, assistance and monitoring of people in mobility, pastoral care, theology of migration, among others.

The Journal includes research articles, review articles, as well as communications, essay, discussions, pastoral reflections and book reviews on human mobility or similar themes. Manuscripts are selected for publication based on: the relevance of the theme, the quality of the scientific methodology, the originality and consistency of the results, the analytical accuracy, the coherence of the conclusions, the pertinence, relevance and timeliness of the bibliography, and adequacy to the editorial guidelines and scope of the journal.

All the manuscripts submitted to the journal are screened by the editor in chief, who initially examine the adequacy of the work to the editorial line and scope of the journal, as well as absences of plagiarism. The texts that pass through the screening are subsequently evaluated and reviewed by two or more referees who are experts on the theme and do not have access to the authors name, which guarantees the anonymity of the entire revision process, except those previously made available in preprint servers. After that, the Editor will send the Editorial Decision. Manuscripts may be a) accepted, b) rejected, c) accepted with corrections or d) a new submission can be requested. The accepted manuscripts are then sent back to the authors for approval and for the inclusion of the necessary corrections. The authors should resend the paper with the necessary corrections and justify, in an attached letter, why, if be the case, they do not agree with the suggested corrections. The evaluation process, from submission to editorial decision, should not exceed 130 days.

In line with Open Science, authors may opt, when offered the choice, for one or more means of opening the peer review process in agreement with the referees, following the Open Science Compliance Form: a) mutual opening of identities in the evaluation process and b) publication on the journal's platform of the evaluations of approved articles with the optional identification of the referees.

Following the open science policy, the name of the responsible editor for the evaluation and editorial process is published in all articles.

 

 

Open Data

 

From the perspective of valuing Open Science, REMHU encourages the deposit of research data in Data Repositories that provide DOI. We recommend the use of SciELO Data, a multidisciplinary repository for deposit, preservation and dissemination of research data, linked to Dataverse, of which REMHU is part since 2022. However, other repositories are also accepted by the journal, including:  Havard Dataverse; USP's scientific data repository.

By research data we mean "factual records, which may take the form of numbers, symbols, text, images or sounds, used as primary sources for research, and that are commonly accepted in the research community as necessary to validate research findings" (Griffith University). We therefore encourage the sharing (open or closed), citation, and referencing of data, code, and materials underlying the article and used in the design and conduct of the research (research design, software, program codes, scripts, algorithms, methodologies, field notebooks, questionnaires, audios or videos, photographs, ppt presentations, and others).

Data sharing should occur after the acceptance of the article.  In some cases, REMHU may request access to the databases of the submitted article during the evaluation of the manuscript.

For data sharing at SciELO Data please refer to the Guide for the deposit of research data, produced by the SciELO team.

If research data is made available in repositories, include the citation in the reference list (see Submission Guidelines).

REMHU also requests the completion of the Open Science Compliance Form - SciELO (model in the link) and its inclusion at the time of manuscript submission.

 

 

Fees

  REMHU does not charge fees for article submission and evaluation.  

 

Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy

 

The Journal adopts the definitions and criteria of misconduct from COPE, Committee on Publication Ethics and the Guide to good practices for strengthening ethics in scientific publishing by SciELO, especially with regard to fabrication and falsification of data and information, including plagiarism, self-plagiarism and improper attribution of authorship.

If the article has been submitted to an Ethics Committee (CEP/Conep System, Plataforma Brasil or other system), we ask the authors to mention it in the body of the article (for example, in a footnote).

Plagiarism Checker and CopySpider software are used to identify misconduct. Manuscripts that do not comply will be automatically rejected, with the authors subject to possible sanctions determined by the Editorial Board.

If there are any errors in the publication, which do not constitute misconduct, regardless of their nature or origin, they will be corrected through the publication of an errata. Authors should contact the editors via email: remhu@csem.org.br. If there is evidence of misconduct, a retraction may be required from the authors of the articles, according to Scielo Brasil's Guide for registering, marking and publishing retractions

 

 

Policy on Conflict of Interest

  REMHU requests that authors and evaluators declare possible conflicts of interest when submitting or evaluating a manuscript. These conflicts can be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial in nature. In case of doubt, authors and evaluators must include this information when submitting and accepting an article evaluation.  

 

Privacy Policy

 

Names, addresses or other information of authors and reviewers reported in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes of publication and will not be available for other purposes

 

 

Gender and Sex Issues

 

The editorial team of the REMHU, in addition to the authors who publish in the journal, must always observe the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of information about sex and gender in study design, data analysis, and results and interpretation of findings.

REMHU observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its editorial board and selection of referees. Furthermore, it suggests reading the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research, available at: https://www.scielo.br/j/ress/a/qbkGJtSD7Cj4fzJSrVsg6Hf/?lang=pt

 

 

Copyright and Intellectual Property

 

The authors of REMHU articles maintain copyright and grant the magazine the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons License of the BY attribution type, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as it is recognized authorship and that the original work is correctly cited.

Authors are allowed to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, as long as the full citation from the original journal version is included.

 

 

Sponsors and Promotion Agencies

 

REMHU is edited by the Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios - CSEM, of Brasilia; e-mail: (csem@csem.org.br).

REMHU is financed by the Associação Educadora São Carlos/CSEM, by Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of São Carlos Borromeo - Scalabrinians, headquartered in Rome, Italy.

 

 

 

Editorial Board

 

Editor-in-chief

   

 

Editorial Assistant

   

 

Associated Editors

   

 

Editorial Comission

 

The editorial board of REMHU was chosen based on criteria of interdisciplinarity and internationality, in addition to the specific focus on Human Mobility and related topics.

 

 

 

Instructions to authors

 

Types, form and preparation of manuscripts

 

Types and structure of documents

The journal REMHU is divided into four sections, besides the Editorial.

EDITORIAL: It is written in Portuguese and English by the Editor-in-Chief or an invited researcher.

DOSSIER: this section is written on a specific theme related to migration at an international level. This section is composed by research articles and review articles that offer different academic perspectives on the subject and, depending on the case, may include sociological, psychological, anthropological, demographical, ethnological, juridical, statistical, theological, and pastoral approaches, among others.

The manuscripts should have between 35 and 50 thousand characters with spaces, including the abstract (up to 150 words) and keywords (3 to 5) in the original language of the article, the abstract and keywords in English, besides information about the author(s) academic background.

ARTICLES: this section includes research articles and review articles on any theme related to the universe of human mobility.

The manuscripts should have between 35 and 50 thousand characters with spaces, including the abstract (up to 150 words) and keywords (3 to 5) in the original language of the article, the abstract and keywords in English, besides information about the author(s) academic background.

REPORTS AND REFLECTIONS: the third section, "Reports and reflections", includes communications, essays, discussions, and case reports on the phenomenon of migration and the socio-pastoral service to migrants and refugees.

The texts should have up to 20 thousand characters with spaces, without abstract, but with the final bibliography.

REVIEWS: this last section includes critical reviews of recent publications on topics related to migration. The texts, in addition to summarizing the works, must introduce new knowledge and stimulate discussions on the subject.

The manuscripts, with up to 10.000 characters with spaces, should include the complete bibliographical reference to the cited work, the final bibliography, besides information about the author's academic background.

 

 

Authors' contribution

 

In the case of two or more authors, the contribution of each author must be informed in accordance with the attached form.

Any change (addition, deletion or reorganisation) in authorship must be communicated before the manuscript is accepted.

 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

 

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1) The contribution must be original, unpublished, and should not have been submitted to or published in another journal or elsewhere.

- The following papers are not considered original: those fully or partially published online; parts of thesis or dissertations; texts already published in another language; and texts published as scientific conference proceedings, except when they have been substantially improved due to posterior debates and studies
- in this case, please inform the Editor during submission through "Comments to the Editor": Editor shall decide on the acceptance of the article.
- It is allowed to send a previously published manuscript on a Preprint Platform (SciELO Preprints, SocArXiv and SSRN), provided they have not been submitted to peer review in another journal simultaneously. In this case, the author will need to communicate it to the editors at the time of submission, complete and attach the Open Science Compliance SciELO-Preprints form with the files submitted for evaluation and must inform their online location (DOI).

2) The text file:

- should discuss themes related to migrations, refugees, and similar topics.
- is written in Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, or French.
- should be submitted in Microsoft Word format, with no identification of the authors, guaranteeing anonymity.
- must have a maximum of 3 (three) authors, who should have at least a master's degree for the sections "Dossiers" and "Articles". Papers from master's students may be accepted as long as they have been jointly written with PhDs. The author submitting the article confirms that the co-authors are aware of the submission. After submission, the inclusion or exclusion of co-authors will not be accepted.

3) The paper submitted to the sections "Articles" and "Dossiers" should include, both in the original language and in English: 1) title; 2) abstract up to 150 words; and 3) 3 to 5 keywords.

4) A separate page should be uploaded, including: a) the title of the paper in the original language and in English; b) the name(s) of the author(s) (in the case of multiple authors, indicate the names of the authors in order of responsibility for the work and a brief curriculum vitae); c) information about the author(s) (profession, affiliation, academic title, mailing address, and e-mail); d) in the case of a manuscript written by 2 or more authors, a declaration stating the individual contribution of each author; e) ORCID of all authors; f) Conflicts of Interest Declaration.

5) The authors are attaching the open science form and, whenever relevant, the statement of approval from the Research Ethics Committee from the responsible institution.

6) The paper should follow the style and reference guidelines described in General guidelines for manuscript submission.

 

 

Submissions

 

1) General guidelines for manuscript submission
Manuscript format: simple space, A4, Times New Roman, font size 12.
Manuscript size: between 35,000 and 50,000 characters with spaces for the articles in the sections "Dossier" and "Articles" (including Abstract in original language and in English, footnotes, and up to one page with references); between 10 and 20 thousand characters with spaces for the section "Reports and Reflections"; and up to 10,000 characters with spaces for the section "Reviews".

Tables: should be included in the body of text, numbered sequentially with Arabic numbers, with indication of reference and/or authorship. For formatting, the graphics should also be sent in Excel.

Graphics: should follow the same guidelines as for tables. For formatting, the graphics should also be sent in Excel.

Figures, photos, and illustrations: should be sequentially numbered with Arabic numbers and sent in as separate, high-resolutionfiles.
On the first occurrence of an acronym or an abbreviation, please spell out the full term first. Do not use acronyms or abbreviations in the abstract or in the title of the article.

2) References in the body of text
Bibliographical references should be made, in general terms, according to the Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas – ABNT.
Citations in the body of text should be made by the author-date.
In indirect citations use author's name ( Author's Last Name, full name) (or entity responsible) and year of publication. If there is more than one work by the same author in the same year, use a, b, c immediately after the date. If the author's name is already mencioned in a sentence, include only the date in parentheses.
e.g.:  (Balibar,2012, p. 12-14)
e.g.:  (IBGE, 2014a, p. 10)
e.g.:  “...na opinião de Mezzadra (2015)”

In citations of references with two authors, indicate the Surnames separated by a comma (,) and the year of publication. Use semi-colon (;) to separate more source.
e.g..:  (Durand, Massey,  2001)
e.g..:  (Sayad 1986; Castles, Miller 2012)

In citations of references with more than two authors, put the, Author's Last Name of the first author, followed by the expression “et al. ” and the year of publication.
e.g.:  (Zanini et al., 2017).

Direct quotations with up to 3 lines must be placed in the body of the text, between double quotation marks ("..."), no italics, with (, Author's Last Name, year and page).
e.g.:  ... “è doveroso distinguere il concetto di globalizzazione tra progetto político e processo economico” (  Castles, Miller, 2012, p. 79).

Direct citations with more than 3 lines should be placed in a separate paragraph (with 2 cm indent), no quotation marks, no italic, with (, Author's Last Name, year and page).
All referenced works should be listed in the references.

3) References at the end of the article
Should come at the end of the article. Include only the references of the authors mentioned in the text, in alphabetical order by last name. In case of more than one reference of the same author, list works in order of year of publication (oldest first). In cases where there are several works of the same author and year of publication, assign lowercase letters after the year of publication (a, b, c, etc.).

Book: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, first name. Title (in black): subtitle. Place of publication: Publisher, publication year.
e.g.:  BAGGIO, Marileda. Entre dois mundos: a Igreja no pensar e no agir de Giovanni Battista Scalabrini. Brasília: CSEM, 2011.

Chapter of a book: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, first name. Title of chapter: subtitle. In: EDITOR LAST NAME, first name. Title (in black): subtitle. Place of publication: Publisher, publication year, first and last pages of the cited chapter.
e.g.:  LUSSI, Carmem. Atendimento à população migrante: por uma abordagem integral. In: NETO, Helion Povoa; SANTOS, Miriam de Oliveira; PETRUS, Regina (orgs.). Migrações: rumos, tendências e desafios. Rio de Janeiro: PoloBooks, CRV, 2016, p. 477-496.

Articles from journals/periodicals: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, first name. Title of the article: subtitle. Journal/periodical title (in black), volume (v.), issue (n.), and pages of the article, publication year.
e.g.:  BAENINGER, Rosana. Racismo e sua negação: o caso dos migrantes bolivianos em São Paulo. Travessia, v. XXIV, n. 68, p. 49-62, 2011.

Dissertations and theses: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, first name . Title of dissertation/thesis (Doctoral dissertation or master’s thesis). Academic institution, Place of publication, Year.
e.g.:  DIAS, Guilherme Mansur. Migração e crime: desconstrução das políticas de segurança e tráfico de pessoas (Tese de doutorado). Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Campinas, 2014.

Paper presented at conferences: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, first name. Title of communication. In: Event name. City, date.
E.g.:  KREUTZ, Lúcio. Identidade étnica e processo escolar. In: XXII Encontro Anual da ANPOCS. Caxambú, 27 a 31 de Outubro de 1998.

Online text: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, first name Title. Additional information, dd.mm.yyyy. Available at:  <URL>. Accessed  dd.mm.yyyy.
e.g.:  SANTIN, Terezinha. Fórum Social Mundial das Migrações. 2012. Available at: <http://www.csem.org.br/evento/644-forum-social-mundial-das-migracoes>. Accessed: 17.12.2012.

Newspaper articles: Title. Newspaper name. City, dd.mm.yyyy. Available at: <URL>. Accessed : dd.mm.yyyy.
e.g.: Migrazioni, i viaggi disperati: una panoramica del cambiamento nei flussi misti verso l'Europa. La Repubblica. Roma, 11.04.2011. Available at: http://www.repubblica.it/solidarieta/immigrazione/2018/04/11/news/migrazioni-193574412/. Accessed: 15.05.2018.

Research data: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, first name. Title of research data. Qualifier [dataset]. dd.mm.yyyy. Data repository, version. Electronic identifier, link.
E.g.: ANDRADE, Márcio. Estudo de genes em ratos albinos na América Latina [dataset].20 jan. 2018. Open Science Framework (OSF). NR_109833.1. http://dx.doi.org/10.15090/012345620187214.

Preprints:
E.g.: MACHADO, Igor J. R. Espacialidades precárias dos refugiados no Brasil. preprints.scielo.org [Preprint], 2020. [Submitted 2020-09-09 - Posted 2020-09-14; cited 2020-10-09]. Disponível em e/ou Doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.1198

 

 

Manuscript submissions

 

Articles must be sent to REMHU through the electronic submission website: http://www.csem.org.br/remhu

 

 

Additional Information

  The concepts and declarations contained in the manuscripts published in REMHU are of total responsibility of the authors.  

 

Contact

 

Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios – CSEM
REMHU, Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana
SRTVN 702 - Conjunto "P" Ed. Brasília Rádio Center - Sobrelojas 1 e 2
Cep: 70719-900, Brasília - DF, Brasil
E-mail: remhu@csem.org.br

 

 

Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios SRTV/N Edificio Brasília Radio Center , Conj. P - Qd. 702 - Sobrelojas 01/02, CEP 70719-900 Brasília-DF Brasil, Tel./ Fax(55 61) 3327-0669 - Brasília - DF - Brazil
E-mail: remhu@csem.org.br
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