Migration

Lab leaders: Jeff Pugh, Denise Muro, Cecilia Idika-Kalu

Migration is one of the central political debates and governance/policy challenges of our era, and its intersections with conflict are increasingly visible and widespread.  The Migration Lab creates an innovative community of practice in which researchers, activists, policymakers, service providers, and students collectively identify challenges, deepen our understandings of the social and political dynamics influencing human mobility and the integration or exclusion of migrants, and seek to generate effective, evidence-based policy solutions and programs to ensure peaceful coexistence, respect for rights, and pragmatic problem-solving in migrant-receiving countries and communities.  Key projects include the Immigrant Political Activism Research Collaborative (IVPARC) and Transnational Transitional Justice and the Work of the Colombian Truth Commission with Exiles as central research projects, as well as strategic partnerships with community-engaged projects, service providers, and capacity building initiatives, including the Migrant Alliance and Partnership Network (MAP network), the Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice (SCIJ), the Summer Institute on Conflict Transformation across Borders, and the PAHO/IOM virtual course on Human Security, Health, and Migration in the Americas.