Each year, the UBC Centre for Migration Studies, in partnership with a collaborating university, hosts its Research Conference on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The conference invites submissions from faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate student affiliates of the CMS and its partner institution and includes an internationally recognized scholar as the keynote speaker.

CMS Research Conference 2025


The UBC Centre for Migration Studies, in partnership with UBC Okanagan, is excited to host the CMS Research Conference 2025 on May 1–2, at the xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues, on the UBC Vancouver campus.

This year’s conference will explore Migration, Mobilities, and Changing Political Landscapes. In addition to panel presentations, the conference will feature a hybrid keynote film screening with multimedia presentations from film participants and a roundtable on policy-engaged research.

Looking back

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CMS International Research Conference 2024: Belonging and Mobility in a Transnational World

 
On May 15th and 16th, 2024, UBC Centre for Migration Studies partnered with Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty of Social Sciences to host its annual International Research Conference.

CMS International Research Conference 2023

 
On April 25th and 26th, 2023, UBC Centre for Migration Studies partnered with Queen’s University Belfast to host its inaugural International Research Conference.
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