Institutes and Centres on Diaspora and Migration
Institute for Research into Superdiversity
University of Birmingham
Director: Professor Nando Sigona (n.sigona@bham.ac.uk)
Administrator: Ann Bolstridge (a.bolstridge@bham.ac.uk) (TEL: +44(0)121 4144967).
What do they do? Draw together academics from the UK/around the world to consolidate expertise and generate thinking in the field of cultural diversity.
Research: citizenship, language, belonging, the economic impacts of diversity, access to welfare, social cohesion and integration.
Master’s degree in ‘‘Migration Studies’’
Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona.
Master coordinator: Ricard Zapata Barrero (ricard.zapata@upf.edu).
Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London.
Research group and forum dedicated to ‘‘those engaged in pushing Postcolonialism into new domains’’.
Aims: to expand postcolonial studies beyond its original home in literary studies and to engage with current political, cultural and artistic questions. This center organizes seminars, colloquia, film screenings, public events and academic conferences. Three of the co-editors of the journal Postcolonial Studies direct the centre.
E-mail: postcolonial@gold.ac.uk.
Director: Professor Sanjay Seth.
University of Cambridge
The Centre’s primary role in the University is to undertake, promote, and support research and teaching about Africa as well as to build academic engagement with African scholars and institutions.
E-mail: centre@african.cam.ac.uk.
CMS: Center for Migration Studies of New York
The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) is an educational institute and nonpartisan think tank based in New York City that studies domestic immigration and international migration issues. The organization is devoted to public policies that safeguard the dignity and rights of migrants worldwide.
E-mail: jvelazquez@cmsny.org
University of Essex
The Centre for Migration Studies launched in 2018 and was established to provide a home for cross-disciplinary dialogue on migration studies.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MigEssex
The University of British Columbia
This center studies migration from numerous interdisciplinary perspectives with particular strengths in seven areas of research excellence: borders, community-university partnerships, migration and Indigeneity, mobilities, narratives, political behaviour, and research creation.
Director: Antje Ellermann
E-mail: antje.ellermann@ubc.ca
Institute for Migration Research
Universidad de Granada
The Institute for Migration Research was founded in 2009 with the primary goal of conducting world-class research in the field of migration studies, both nationally and internationally. Over 80 professors and researchers are involved in their research groups, and they come from a broad range of academic disciplines, such as education science, law, philosophy, the humanities, psychology, politics, sociology, translation and interpretation, and social work.
Director: F. Javier García Castaño
E-mail: fjgarcia@ugr.es
Centre for Advanced Migration Studies
University of Copenhagen
AMIS is an interdisciplinary centre for migration research based at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen. The centre was established 2013 in order to make migration a strategic research priority. Combining a diversity of social sciences and humanities approaches to the theory and practice of migration, the center’s research focus on moving populations and mobility practices as well as irregularized and forced migration.
Director: Marie Sandberg
E-mail: sandberg@hum.ku.dk
University of Ghana
It was established in November 2006 and officially launched at the University of Ghana in November 2007. It is located within the premises of the International House at the University of Ghana. Its mandate is to undertake research, teaching, training, capacity building, policy assessment, development, and dissemination in migration research. It is the only centre in the West African sub-region offering MA/MPhil and Ph.D. programmes in migration studies. It has admitted students from other African countries over the years- Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Kenya.
Director: Prof. Mary B. Setrana
E-mail: cms@ug.edug.gh
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION STUDIES
CUNY Graduate Center
This M.A. Program in International Migration Studies at the Graduate Center prepares students for growing and exciting opportunities to work with and advocate on behalf of international migrants and refugees, who are facing a rising tide of racism and xenophobia.
E-mail: rocejo@jjay.cuny.edu
Center for Migration and Develpment
Princeton University
The Center for Migration and Development (CMD) promotes scholarship, original research, and intellectual exchange among faculty and students with an interest in international migration and national development. Of particular interest to CMD research is the relationship between immigrant communities in the developed world and the growth and development prospects of the sending nations.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/princetoncmd
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
The American University in Cairo
CMRS is a multidisciplinary regional center of graduate education, research, and outreach on international Migration at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP). It works on establishing linkages between education and research by building the capacity of students and young researchers to create a pool of qualified researchers and practitioners in refugee and migration from the region.
UC San Diego
A multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to comparative, cross-national and cross-regional research on international migration and immigration policy. CCIS was established in 2002 as an interdisciplinary home for migration research at the University of California, San Diego. Since its founding, it has become a recognized institutional home for exemplary academic scholarship and policy-oriented research on all aspects related to international migration.
Director: Claire Adida
E-mail: ccis@ucsd.edu
Center for the Study of International Migration
UCLA
The UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration seeks to foster research and instruction on international migration. In their view, the study of migration is like the process of migration itself: an activity that cuts across boundaries, in this case intellectual, and therefore one best pursued by drawing insights and methods from a variety of disciplines.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UCLAmigration
Geneva Graduate Institute
The Global Migration Centre (GMC) conducts advanced research and provides policy-oriented expertise and publications on the multifaceted causes, patterns and consequences of global migration.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GVAGrad_GMC
Brown University
The Migration Studies Initiative (MSI) is based out of the Population Studies and Training Center and partnered with the U-FLi (Undocumented and First Generation Low-Income) Center and the Institute for Transformative Practice (ITP). As a global phenomenon with far-reaching social, political, and economic consequences, migration is a critical area for interdisciplinary study and public-facing research. MSI serves as a central hub at Brown for students, faculty, and staff interested in migration, mobility, and displacement in both theoretical and applied contexts.
E-mail: Andrea_Flores@brown.edu
The African Centre for Migration & Society
Africa’s leading scholarly institution for research and teaching on human mobility dedicated to shaping global discourse on human mobility and social transformation.
E-mail: info@migration.org.za
Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
UC Berkeley
BIMI investigates human mobility, immigrants’ integration and the ways migration transforms societies around the world.
Coordinator: Salomé Ragot
E-mail: bimi@berkeley.edu
UC Davis
A multi-disciplinary team of political scientists, economists, humanists, anthropologists, legal scholars, ethnic and cultural studies scholars, sociologists and historians working to produce fact-based knowledge through research that drives effective policies and interventions related to international migration with a focus on vulnerable migrants.
Director: Giovanni Peri
E-mail: globalmigrationcenter@ucdavis.edu
Funded Research Projects
Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction, INTRUTHS: FFI2017-84619-P. AEI/FEDER, UE, Dr. M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera, University of Vigo, http://netec.webs.uvigo.es/en/intruths.
Samuel Beckett y las traducciones de su obra al español: una investigación sobre la recepción de un escritor bilingüe, FFI2016-76477-P, Dr. José Francisco Fernández Sánchez, University of Almería.
Eco-fictions: Emergent Discourses on Woman and Nature in Galicia and Ireland, FEM2015-66937-P (MINECO & FEDER), Dr. Manuela Palacios González, University of Santiago de Compostela.
Ex-sistere: Women’s Mobility in Contemporary Galician and Irish Literature, FFI2012-35872, Dr. Manuela Palacios González, University of Santiago de Compostela.
Nosotros-as y ellos-as: Discursos de las escritoras irlandesas y gallegas sobre la extranjería (1980-2007) FFI2009-08475/FILO, Dr. Manuela Palacios González, University of Santiago de Compostela.
Poesía y género: Poetas irlandesas y gallegas contemporáneas (1980-2004), HUM2005-0489/FILO, Dr. Manuela Palacios González, University of Santiago de Compostela.
The Animal Trope: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Contemporary Culture in Galicia and Ireland, PGC2018-093545-B-I00, Dr. Manuela Palacios González, University of Santiago de Compostela.
The Lost Female Tradition: Predecessors, Contemporaries and Successors of James Joyce in Irish Writing, FEM2010-16897, Dr. Margarita Estévez-Saá.
International Seminar on "Creation, Editing and Criticism: Irish and Galician Poets," FFI2008-0241-E, Dr. Manuela Palacios González.
"‘Cultural Vision Foundation’". Project organised by UNESCO about promoting interculturalism in Bolivia (2022). It is about ‘‘promoting cultural and creative industries in the city of La Paz, Bolivia’’. Link to the webpage with all the details of this project: https://en.unesco.org/creativity/ifcd/projects/promoting-cultural-creative-industries-city-la-paz-bolivia.
Associations of English Studies
Spain
Spanish Association for Canadian Studies (Asociación Española de Estudios Canadienses, AEEC), http://www.estudioscanadienses.org/
Europe
United Kingdom
United States – Canada
Australia
Miscellaneous
Institutes and Centres of Irish Studies
United Kingdom
Ireland
Europe