November 13, 2020
Dear Colleagues and Friends of UBC Migration,
We are thrilled to announce the inauguration of the UBC Centre for Migration Studies. The Centre will provide an intellectual and inclusive home for UBC migration and mobility scholars from many different disciplines. As an independent institutional unit within the Faculty of Arts—and as the only centre of its kind in Western Canada —the Centre for Migration Studies will promote cutting-edge research, graduate training and public outreach on issues of global human mobility. The Centre will support interdisciplinary collaborations between researchers, community partners and policy makers in order to advance our understanding of global migration and to mobilize knowledge for evidence-informed policies and practices.
Borne out of the UBC Migration Research Excellence Cluster, the Centre has a growing membership of over 60 UBC faculty, 60 UBC graduate students, 11 local community partners, two institutional partners in the US and Canada, as well as many more migration scholars beyond UBC.
The Centre for Migration Studies is generously supported by the UBC Faculty of Arts, the Departments of Political Science, Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, and the Peter A. Allard School of Law, with additional support provided by Excellence Funds from the Office of the Vice-President of Research and Innovation.
As we transition into a full-fledged Migration Centre in the coming months, there will be many exciting changes but our commitment to advancing our understanding of migration will remain unchanged, as will our dedication to establishing connections across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. We are thankful to all of you for your guidance, inspiration, time and energy over these past three years as we have grown from being an informal network of migration enthusiasts to Cluster Collaborators, and to now having our own institutional home. Our achievement would be incomplete without your support.
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