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Migrations Program

Cornell University

Research

The study of migration helps make the world a better place for populations on the move. Migrations researchers at Cornell promote human rights for migrants, study migratory bird species, and support scholars under threat. 

Call for Abstracts: Migration in Contentious Political Times

We're soliciting abstracts from undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and the community that examine human mobility as a sociolegal and political process shaped by borders, state power, labor markets, and inequality. We welcome submissions that situate migration within broader ecological and social systems. 

You can present your work as a poster or with an oral presentation at our conference in September. More details coming soon!

Submit by May 1

A person views a photo of a TPS worker wearing a "TPS to Residency Now" jacket.
Patricia Campos-Medina organizes an exhibit about migrant workers.
Professors Ian Kysel and Luwam Dirar Lay Out Landmark African Migrant Rights Principles at a panel
Ian Kysel presents African Migrant Rights Principles.
Amanda Rodewald holding small yellow bird
Amanda Rodewald studies migratory birds in Central America.

Since 2020, Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge has awarded $1.9 million to 38 faculty-led projects addressing wide-ranging questions around domestic and global migration. Check out more Migrations research spotlights.

Migrations Publications

Explaining Refugee Employment Declines: Structural Shortcomings in Federal Resettlement Support

A Nicole Kreisberg, Els de Graauw, and Shannon Gleeson
In the United States, the integration experiences of immigrants depend partly on whether they are recognized as refugees or economic migrants. Unlike economic migrants, refugees receive federal…
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