Centro de Estudios Sobre Migraciones

Director: D. Joaquín Arango Vila-Belda.

The Center for the Study of Migration and Citizenship (CEMC) is a specialized teaching and research unit within the IUIOG. In addition to offering a Ph.D. program on International Migration and Social integration, it conducts basic and applied research on a variety of subjects and is part to a number of European networks and undertakings in the field of international migration.

A dozen senior researchers are presently affiliated with CEMC-IUIOG, in addition to a number of Ph.D. students, representing such fields as Sociology, Economics, Demography, Political Science, Law, Social Anthropology and History. From its inception CEMC is headed by Professor Joaquín Arango.

CEMC-IUIOG is regularly involved in a number of large-scale migration projects, both in Spain and in Europe. It is part of a number of European scientific and policy networks, including IMILCO and EMD (European Migration Dialogue). Through its Director, CEMC has been part of the Transatlantic Migration Dialogue and the CEME group (Cooperative Efforts to Manage Emigration) – sponsored by the German Marshall Fund and the Hewlett Foundation. CEMC has co-organised a number of international seminars and conferences on migration issues in southern Europe and the Mediterranean basin, and participated in various international collaborative initiatives. It was also the organizer of the I National Congress on Immigration and co-organizer of the second.

At present CEMC is involved in research on migration in Spain, southern Europe, Europe at large and the Mediterranean basin. Its interests cover both processes of international migration and migration policies, with particular attention to admission and control policies and policies pertaining to the integration of migrants. Institutions with which CEMC-IUIOG cooperates, or has cooperated in the past, include the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Labour Organisation (ILO),  the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations, the Economic Commission for Europe of the UN (UNECE), UNESCO, and several agencies of the Spanish Government.