International Migration Institute (IMI)
The International Migration Institute (IMI) aims to advance new thinking of migration as an intrinsic part of global change and development. This is achieved through promoting research, generating new data, and publishing IMI’s working paper series. IMI is based at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) and regroups a network of research fellows from around the world.
What's new
KNAW Academy Compendium has been published!
29 May 2020
On 16-18 October 2019, the International Migration Institute hosted an Academy Colloquium, entitled "Renewing Migration Debate: building disciplinary and geographical bridges to explain global migration" at the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam.
The 6th Edition of The Age of Migration published
20 May 2020
A fully revised edition of The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World by IMI director Hein de Haas, Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller has been published!
Minor in Global Migration
20 May 2020
Are you interested in international migration patterns, policies and their impacts? Would you like to engage in discussions, debates and presentations on migration-related issues? Do you wish to engage with a real life policy challenge and present your possible solutions? Apply for a Minor in Global Migration today!
Just published: DEMIG VISA database
29 April 2020
We are happy to announce that the DEMIG VISA database is now available!
Lea Müller Funk receives IMISCOE’s Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award
12 February 2020
IMI senior researcher Lea Müller Funk has won the IMISCOE’s Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award for her paper “Investigating mobility aspirations of refugees in fragile political contexts: Ethical reflections and methodological choices”.
Latest Publications
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State expansion, development imaginaries and mobility in a peripheral frontier: the case of Caracaraí, Brazil
Working paper
Naiara Rodriguez-Pena , (2020), IMI Working Paper Series, 165, 1 - 32
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Social Transformation, Resistance and Migration in the Italian Peninsula over the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Working paper
Simona Vezzoli, (2020), IMI Working Paper Series, 164, 1 - 38
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Renewing the Migration Debate: Building disciplinary and geographical bridges to explain global migration
Research note
(2020), Academy Compendium, 1 - 152
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Drivers of migration: A synthesis of knowledge
Working paper
Mathias Czaika and Constantin Reinprecht, (2020), IMI Working Paper Series, 163, 1 - 45