Our missions

The Euro­pean refu­gees crisis of the summer of 2015 origi­nated the idea for the Insti­tute. However, the topics are not limited to the refugee crisis.

Inter­na­tional migra­tion covers various disci­plines, such as : geography, history, demo­graphy, econo­mics, law, poli­tical sciences, socio­logy, anthro­po­logy, ethics, social epide­mio­logy and infectiology.

It is the mission of CI Migra­tion to cover all these aspects of migra­tion with work projects and a trai­ning program.

Comprehensive overview

Three affi­lia­tion campaigns (March 2018, April 2018 and April 2019) abled the CI Migra­tion to select 394 resear­chers and 72 PhD students. The member­ship is for a 3 year period (rene­wable).

Two thirds of the fellows are foun­ders of the CI Migra­tion, one third come from French univer­si­ties, foreign univer­si­ties or other organisms.

Fellows distribution in the departments

• DYNAMICS : 50
• GLOBAL : 90
• HEALTH :51
• INTEGER : 94
• POLICY : 99

We try to asso­ciate different disci­plines and themes among each depart­ment. The HEALTH depart­ment, for instance is composed of econo­mists, demo­graphy resear­chers, histo­rians, anthro­po­lo­gists as well as Public Health specia­lists, epide­mio­lo­gists, socio­lo­gists or geography researchers.

The CI Migra­tion wants to renew the rela­tion between science and society when it comes to migra­tion issues. For this, it has edited a maga­zine called De Facto to analyze the news with a critical and construc­tive eye.

We consider that a scien­tific resear­cher cannot stay neutral when it comes to such a sensi­tive topic, he must elevate the debate. 

We must reframe the magni­tude of the pheno­menon, study exis­ting data, produce new data and compare them in different time and space frames. There is a need to deci­pher argu­ments about migra­tion accor­ding to descrip­tive, expla­na­tory and stan­dard frame­work data.

CI Migra­tions wishes to dedi­cate funds to reach out to elected offi­cials, asso­cia­tions, teachers, admi­nis­tra­tions, compa­nies, agencies.

In addi­tion to a Scien­tific board, CI Migra­tions has a Terri­tory board, consulted in the design of specific research projects.

View CI Migra­tions actions to create a dialogue between science and society.

CI Migra­tions is crea­ting a Master’s degree in Migra­tions toge­ther with EHESS of Univer­sity Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne. 

We have observed that in this deve­lo­ping research field, exis­ting trai­ning programs do not include multi-disci­pli­nary studies and field work. This new Master’s degree will there­fore complete (and not compete with) the exis­ting Masters dealing with the subject. We intend to train resear­chers and migra­tion specia­lists who will also be able to pursue PhD work in other exis­ting institutions.

We have been granted permis­sion for the Masters in December 2018. We will enroll students as of September 2020.