This conference was made possible through the generous support of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Dean of Social Sciences, California Cultures in Comparative Perspective, the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS), and the …

…Agents catch one in three border crossers, according to research from Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California-San Diego. If that’s true, as many as 3,000 people …

…Wayne Cornelius
Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
It’s very clear that the Obama administration is not going to get to comprehensive immigration reform this year. There are simply too many distractions. So …

…David Keyes, a researcher at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California at San Diego, said more national teams, especially those in Europe, are wrestling with these questions as their countries …

…That brought a spirited retort from Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center of Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego. Cornelius wrote in the May/June 2004 Foreign Policy magazine that Huntington’s thesis …

… “The vast majority of Mexican migrants who have been in the U.S. for more than a few years have nothing to return to in Mexico,” said Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative …

A conference bringing together social scientists and legal scholars to document and explain the rising incidence of immigration policy activism among state and local governments in the United States.
State and Local Immigration Policy in the …

A conference to establish an interactive, policy-oriented network of U.S. and Eurasian immigration scholars.
Borders vs. Migration Agenda »

This conference will examine various groups of ethnic return migrants—diasporic peoples who return to their ancestral homelands after living outside their countries of ethnic origin for generations. Conference participants will compare the ethnopolitical reception of …

A forum for UCSD undergraduates majoring in any discipline to present their senior thesis projects or other independent research addressing international migration and refugee issues to fellow students, faculty, and other researchers.