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Regional Organizations
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| Center for Immigration Studies |
Url: http://www.cis.org/ |
| Description: The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States. |
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| Centre d'Information et d'Etudes sur les Migrations Internationales |
Url: http://www.ciemi.org/ |
| Description: The aim of the CIEMI is to study and sensitize the public - through its documentation collections (55,000 bibliographical references, 15,000 books, 300 periodicals), and its publication of news reports (one periodical : Migrations Société) and books - to the role of international migration in the transformation and reconstruction of the social, cultural and religious landscape of national societies. |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society |
Url: http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/ |
| Description: The British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has recently awarded the University of Oxford a new national research centre on migration. With renewable core-funding of £3.4 million for its initial five-year period, the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society [COMPAS] commenced activities on 1st October 2003.The mission of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society [COMPAS] at the University of Oxford is to provide a strategic, integrated approach to understanding contemporary and future migration dynamics across sending areas and receiving contexts in the UK and EU. |
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| Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung |
Url: http://www.cimonline.de/ |
| Description: CIM the Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung - places experienced German and European experts in African, Asian and Latin American countries, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe and the newly independent states. It allows counterpart organisations in these countries to recruit highly qualified experts on the European labour market, and to use their expertise specifically for a limited period. |
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| Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty |
Url: http://www.migrationdrc.org/ |
| Description: The Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty was established in June 2003, in recognition of the complex relationship between migration and poverty. It aims to examine migration flows in which poor people themselves are most represented and how migration impacts variously on their livelihoods, rights and levels of social protection. |
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| European Migration Centre |
Url: http://www.emz-berlin.de/ |
| Description: The European Migration Centre (EMZ) was founded in Berlin some 20 years ago. The overall aim of the organisation is to intensify networking between European institutions working in the wide field of migration and ethnicity. With regard to documentation, the EMZ runs an extensive library and provides modern online data banks with statistics and literature on migration topics. |
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| Forced Migration Online |
Url: http://http://www.forcedmigration.org/ |
| Description: Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Designed for use by practitioners, policy makers, researchers, students or anyone interested in the field, FMO aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an international community of users. |
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| Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies |
Url: http://www.imis.uni-osnabrueck.de/e_index.htm |
| Description: Migration, integration and intercultural problems are crucial issues in the world of today and are concerns for a wide variety of academic disciplines and research institutions. Interdisciplinary cooperation is, therefore, of utmost importance. Against this background, IMIS examines historical and contemporary demographic, geographic, social, economic, political and legislative, psychological and educational issues of migration and integration from an interdisciplinary perspective. |
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| Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, Washington DC |
Url: http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/isim |
| Description: ISIM provides balanced, interdisciplinary analysis of the complicated issues raised by international migration. The Institute conducts research convenes symposia and conferences on U.S. immigration and refugee law and policies. It also undertakes comparative analysis of international migration issues affecting other countries, including various bilateral, regional, and multilateral approaches to migration and refugee policy. Understanding forced migration and responses to humanitarian emergencies is another important area of policy research. |
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| Mediterranean Migration Observatory |
Url: http://www.mmo.gr/ |
| Description: The Mediterranean Migration Observatory (MMO) was created in 1998. In 1999 it was established as a research unit of the Research Institute of Urban Environment and Human Resources, Panteion University of Athens. Among the numerous aims of the Observatory, those connected with the observation of migration flows in the Mediterranean and South-East European regions are: comparative analysis of the migration phenomena in both the receiving and sending countries. |
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| Migration Dialogue |
Url: http://migration.ucdavis.edu/ |
| Description: Migration Dialogue promotes an informed discussion of the issues associated with international migration by providing unbiased and timely information on immigration and integration issues. |
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| Migration Information |
Url: http://www.migrationinformation.org/ |
| Description: As debates about international migration grow increasingly polarised, the role of accurate data has grown even more critical. This website gives policymakers, journalists, and others data and analysis to understand national and international migration challenges and to craft policy solutions to them. |
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| Migration Letters |
Url: http://migration.atilim.edu.tr/ |
| Description: Migration Letters is a quarterly international journal on migration issues with an interdisciplinary perspective. The breadth of topics ranges from internal migration to transnational mobility and from voluntary to forced migration. Original research papers from related disciplines are considered for publication. Papers can be theoretical, empirical, applied or policy oriented. Case studies, essays, comments and book reviews are also welcome. |
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| Migration Policy Group |
Url: http://www.migpolgroup.com/ |
| Description: The Migration Policy Group is an independent organisation committed to policy development on migration and mobility, and diversity and anti-discrimination by facilitating the exchange between stakeholders from all sectors of society, with the aim of contributing to innovative and effective responses to the challenges posed by migration and diversity. |
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| Migration Policy Institute |
Url: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/ |
| Description: The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think-tank in Washington, D.C. dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels. It aims to meet the rising demand for pragmatic and thoughtful responses to the challenges and opportunities that large-scale migration, whether voluntary or forced, presents to communities and institutions in an increasingly integrated world. |
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| Migration Research Unit |
Url: http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/mru/ |
| Description: The Migration Research Unit (MRU) is based in the Department of Geography at University College London (UCL). Its purpose is to carry out high quality research, independently or in collaboration with others, designed to increase knowledge and understanding of international population migration issues. The following are the Unit's overarching research aims: To contribute to knowledge on patterns and trends in migration at the national, European and global levels; To increase understanding of the interrelationships between public policy and patterns of migration at each level; To develop new conceptual approaches to the study of migration. |
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| Research on Push and Pull Factors |
Url: http://www.nidi.nl/pushpull/ |
| Description: This web site presents the main results of a research project on push and pull factors determining international migration flows. The objective of the project is to improve our understanding of the direct and indirect causes and mechanisms of international migration to the European Union, from an internationally comparative perspective. The results are intended to serve as a basis for the development of policy instruments and to provide tools for estimating future migration. |
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| Southern African Migration Project |
Url: http://www.queensu.ca/samp/ |
| Description: One of the critical challenges facing governments in Southern Africa relates to the regional movement of a large and growing number of legal and undocumented migrants. The Southern African Migration Project is a multi-faceted research, policy and training programme designed to facilitate the formulation and implementation of new initiatives on cross-border population migration in the region. The Project, which began in May of 1996, is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). |
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| Sussex Centre for Migration Research, UK |
Url: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/migration/ |
| Description: Through the new DFID-funded centre on 'Migration, Globalisation and Poverty' and other externally-funded research projects, the centre seeks to influence both understanding of migration and the policies that affect migrants. It provides doctoral and masters-level training in Migration Studies, and also publishes the internationally-recognised Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. |
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