From the Semi-Periphery with Love. A Dream of a Democratic Social Science: A Margin Lever Maksymilian Chutorański 1 and Oskar Szwabowski 2 Abstract The article highlights a set of specific solutions for international journals - “The Margin Lever”. The proposed solutions relate to changes in publishing policies and methods of reviewing texts that may contribute to overcoming the hegemony of scientists coming from the richest, top-rated, perfectly adapted universities. These universities are usually located in the richest and most developed countries - we call them the core, or the center of the scholarly world. The margin lever is designed, not to make competition with them equitable, but rather to contribute to the development of democratic net- works, and support global and local efforts within committed social research. Keywords Research evaluation, governance, research practice, epistemic governance, epistemic injustice, publishing policies Dear friends (editors and publishers of scientific journals, researchers from all over the world, concerned about the internationalization of research and higher education), 1 Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland 2 Institute of Educational Studies, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland Corresponding Author: Maksymilian Chutorański, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Szczecin, ul. Ogińskiego Michała Kleofasa Ogińskiego 16, 71-431 Szczecin, Poland. Email: maks1@poczta. onet.pl; Oskar Szwabowski, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Szczecin, ul. Ogińskiego Michała Kleofasa Ogińskiego 16, 71-431 Szczecin, Poland. Email: o.szwabowski@gmail.com Original Manuscript Journal of Studies in International Education 1–15 © 2021 European Association for International Education Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/10283153211070109 journals.sagepub.com/home/jsi