Established in March 1999, the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California-San Diego is an interdisciplinary, multinational research and training program devoted to comparative (especially cross-national) work on international migration and refugee movements. Its main intellectual agenda is to systematically compare the U.S. immigration experience - historical and contemporary--with that of other labor-importing countries in other regions (especially the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Western Europe). It conducts multi-year research projects, holds research conferences, workshops and seminars, hosts visiting research fellows at both the pre- and postdoctoral levels, and publishes monographs and working papers. The Center also conducts field research in immigrant-receiving and sending countries, and trains undergraduates and graduate students to gather primary data among immigrant and refugee populations.
For more information about CCIS and to access previous working papers, go to: http://www.ccis-ucsd.org.