About CCIS
The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California-San Diego. The Center is an interdisciplinary,
multinational research and training program devoted to comparative
work on international migration and refugee movements. Its primary
missions are to conduct comparative (especially cross-national)
and policy-oriented research, train academic researchers, students,
and practitioners, and disseminate research conducted under
its auspices to academics, policymakers, and NGOs through research
seminars, conferences, publications, the internet, and the mass
media. The Center is also committed to actively collaborating
with other academic institutions, governmental and non-governmental
organizations, and the local community.
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CCIS Director Wayne Cornelius and UCSD Chancellor Marye Ann Fox |
CCIS is the only U.S. immigration research center that devotes most of its resources to the training and professional development of researchers and practitioners, through its Visiting Research Fellowship Program, Summer Institute on International Migration, and M.A. program in International Migration and Latin American Studies, and the Minor in International Migration Studies (offered in cooperation with Eleanor Roosevelt College). The Center has an active publications program consisting of monographs, anthologies, and working papers. It has built a global electronic network of more than 300 individual researchers and 30 research institutes in over 25 countries. Funding for CCIS is provided by the University of California and other foundations and agencies.
CCIS seeks to illuminate the U.S. immigration experience through
systematic comparison with other countries of immigration, particularly
in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The Center promotes comparative
research in the following areas:
- The causes, dynamics, and consequences (economic, political,
and sociocultural) of international migration (including low-skilled
and high-skilled migrant workers and refugees)
- The determinants and outcomes of laws and policies to regulate
immigration and refugee flows
- Transnational relationships (economic, political, cultural,
ethnic) between immigrant sending and receiving countries
- The impact of international migration on citizenship, national
identity, and ethnic relations
- Immigrant rights, advocacy, and social services; immigrant
political mobilization and participation
- The socioeconomic, political, and cultural interactions
of immigrants and refugees with native-born residents of receiving
countries and their long-term settlement and social integration
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