Program for Research on International Migration

The University of California at Irvine is a leading university in the study of international migration. UCI has arguably the most scholars of international immigration in the United States and probably the world. Spanning multiple disciplines in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Medicine and Physical Sciences, UCI actively contributes to understanding international migration in virtually all aspects of academic and human life. A partial list of these scholars is listed below.

The Program for Research on International Migration (PRIM) includes the large subset of UCI’s immigration scholars that carry out CPIP’s mission in population, inequality and policy research. Specifically, PRIM’s purpose is to stimulate, plan and carry out research on migration and immigration. In order to encourage and help develop multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary research projects, the Program sponsors a number of activities, including meetings to discuss ideas for future research projects, “brainstorming” and information sessions about research funding opportunities, presentations of research findings and work in progress, seminars by both UCI and external speakers, and workshops and conferences.

Examples of current or recent projects include studies examining:

• how immigration policies structure the lives of undocumented immigrants and their citizen family members (Enriquez)
• why some states make national citizenship accessible and others do not, and whether democratic pressure pushes states towards inclusion (Goodman)
• the immigration-crime nexus and considers the impact of immigration-related policy on immigrants, immigrant families and immigrant communities (Kubrin)
• the disparate impacts of extreme wildfire events on undocumented Latino/a and Indigenous migrants (Mendez)
• how immigration status affects health outcomes among immigrant groups (Ro)
• The nature and extent of multiple kinds of incorporation among various second- and later-generation groups (Telles)

 

Scholars contributing to PRIM use a variety of methods to conduct their research. A subset conduct research aligning with the efforts of scholars who are affiliated with the Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy (CPIP). To learn more about CPIP, see the About webpage.  

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