We welcome new knowledgeable authors, especially those with lived experience of forced displacement. Authors may write in English, Arabic, French, or Spanish. No prior experience writing for publication is required.
Our articles typically analyse the causes and impacts of displacement, debate policies and programmes, share research findings, reflect lived experience, or make recommendations for policy and action.
Our step-by-step guide below takes you through the stages you need to go through to have an article published in FMR.
Internally displaced people in dire need as deadly drought continues in Somalia, 2022. Credit: UNHCR/Nabil Narch
How to write for FMR
Step-by-step guide
Artists from 9 countries create a mural in Sofia, Bulgaria together with refugee children. Credit: UNHCR/Dobrin Kashavelov
Mentoring
We offer mentoring for authors with lived experience of forced displacement or whose voices are under-represented in decision making around forced displacement response. Mentoring involves the opportunity to discuss your ideas and get feedback on a draft of your article, before you submit it for review.
You can indicate your interest in being mentored when you submit a proposal.
asked questions
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You do not need any specific qualifications. We ask you to draw on your knowledge – whether of research, practice or personal experience of displacement, to write something which could contribute toward improving outcomes for forcibly displaced people.
We accept articles written in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.
Yes, we accept up to four co-authors per article.
We do not have any article submission or processing charges.
No, as a self-funded project we cannot offer payment to any author.
Yes, FMR is an open access journal. It is deposited in the Oxford Research Archive and indexed by a number of scholarly databases.
No, we only publish articles
Yes. However, you will need to consider our magazine style and submission guidelines. You should also consult with whoever has already published or is considering publishing your work.
All FMR material is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. For more details see our Copyright page.