CCIS was established in 2002 as an interdisciplinary home for migration research at the University of California, San Diego.
Since its founding, it has become a recognized institutional home for exemplary academic scholarship and policy-oriented research on all aspects related to international migration.
CCIS is the only academic center in the United States specializing in international migration from a broad geographical as well as interdisciplinary perspective, devoting substantial attention to migrant-sending and receiving countries in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region.