Overview

To understand migration today requires studying the global fows, processes, and circuits that propel people, information, and capital across historically fxed geographical boundaries. Contemporary migration has altered the global landscape, unsettling traditional social structures, policies, and institutions. Increasingly, this circulatory system is not limited to exchanges between two fixed points but serves as a conduit for overlapping networks—diasporic communities that often encompass multiple cities, nations, and continents. Conventional models for explaining migration to and within the United States are no longer suffcient to account for phenomenon such as “step migration” (whole communities moving in interconnected stages), “circular migration” (establishing economic and social networks in multiple national residences), “transnational migrants” who shuttle between two or more national homelands, or the diasporic public spheres formed by virtual communities across national borders. To address these phenomena, migration scholars are increasingly rejecting traditional paradigms and disciplinary boundaries.

CMGC develops and supports new research models that address the multifaceted and multidimensional nature of contemporary migration, and brings together faculty from diverse academic disciplines to colla-boratively study migration and its effects.
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