Migration Studies: Research Institutes Worldwide


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RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS:
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Research Institutes World-wide (outside EU):

Asian Research Center for Migration (ARCM)
http://www.chula.ac.th/INSTITUTE/ARCM/main.htm
ARCM developed from the original Indochinese Refugee Information Center (IRIC), originally established in 1987. ARCM has a wider brief than IRIC, with the specific aims:

Act as a centralised source of migration-related information for the South-East asia region, by researching and documenting regional migratory movements and the impacts of such movements
Conduct research on key migration topics, including migrant workers, refugees and other transborder movements of people
Strengthen links with other academic institutions, governments, NGOs and international organizations
Build a significant resource and information base, and disseminate information in relevant formats
Organize lectures, seminars, training and consultancies for individuals and organizations in the
Region

The Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN)
http://www.unesco.org/most/apmrn.htm
Useful website showing links for meetings, publications and working papers on all aspects of Asia Pacific migration. Part of UNESCO.

CMS, Centre for Migration Studies
http://www.cmsny.org/index.htm
The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS), founded in New York in 1964, is one of the premier institutes for migration studies in the United States. It is committed to facilitating the study of sociodemographic, historical, economic, political, legislative and pastoral aspects of human migration and refugee movements.

A range of publications are available including:

The International Migration Review (IMR)
A refereed interdisciplinary quarterly journal on all aspects of human mobility, founded in 1966. IMR is internationally regarded as the principal journal in the field and reaches subscribers in 87 countries around the world. Click here to view contents of latest edition.

Migration World, a magazine designed for those socially involved with migrants and refugees. Click here for more information or for information on the latest issue of Migration World click here.

Details can also be found for other publications and newsletters including the proceedings of the Annual National Legal Conference on Immigration and Refugee Policy held each year in Washington.

The Center for Migration Studies of New York maintains a specialized library on international migration, refugees and ethnic groups. Formally organized in 1970, the library's holdings comprise one of the major, if not the principal collection worldwide devoted to the international movement of peoples. It includes over 22,000 volumes, 200 periodicals, 600 dissertations, 215 newsletters, 60 ethnic newspapers, 1800 conference papers, and 3000 journal article reprints.

Passenger Immigration lists
http://genealogy.about.com/cs/passengerlists/
Useful genealogical site which stores genealogical migrant passenger lists of migrant ships.

Population Index - on the web
http://popindex.princeton.edu/index.html
Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000.

Population Links
http://www.magnet.at/heilig/Links/links_2e.htm
A useful A-Z list of population institutions in many countries. Includes Research Centres, Population Institutes, Universities and Projects.

Migration Problems Research Centre (MPRC)
Address: 31 A Voloska Street, Kyiv 252070, UKRAINE, Tel: (380-44) 416 30 52. Fax: (380-44) 416 23 29.
Senior staff: - Ms N. Belister, Mr P. Burlaka, Mr Y. Buznytsky, Mr O. Piskun
Research deals with national and international migration law and the migration situation in Ukraine. It also analyzes issues related to refugee movements, refugee rights, and asylum-seekers. Ukraine, Central & Eastern Europe; CIS countries

Publication(s):
Stability and integration in the autonomous Republic of Crimea: the role of the international community, 1997;
Piskun, O., Fundamentals of migration law. Comparative analysis, 1998;
Piskun, O., Fundamentals of international migration law. Comparative analysis, 1998
Periodical(s): - Migration Issues, (in English and Ukrainian)

Research projects:
- Migration law. Comparative analysis. (1996-2000);
- Integration of the Crimean deportees (Tatars, Armenians, Bulgarians, Germans, Greeks) within Ukrainian society. (1997-2000)

SEER: The Slavonic and East European Review SEER
http:// www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MHRA/SEER/Contents/
The Slavonic and East European Review: SEER is the only British journal covering the full range of articles, documents, marginalia, review-articles and book reviews on all aspects of Slavonic and East European studies in Britain.

SOCO Project Papers SOCO Project papers
http://www.univie.ac.at/iwm/
Research results of the SOCO program covering a wide range of issues on Central and Eastern Europe including unemployment, labor market policies, housing policy, pension reform, health care, education, poverty, individual and family coping strategies, local social welfare delivery, demographic change, disadvantaged groups, regional disparities.

United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
International Migration and Multicultural Policies
http://www.unesco.org/most/migration/ (mission statement)

Migration Research Institutes Database (UNESCO)
http://databases.unesco.org/migration/form.shtml
Launched in February 2002, the Migration Research Institutes Database provides information on more than 100 research and training institutes in 32 countries. Access to details on some 30 periodicals dealing with migration is also available.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER)
http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/index.html

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