The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) was first established in 2000 as the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies program (FMRS) and was expanded in 2008 into a Regional Center encompassing all forms of international mobility, whether voluntary or forced, economic or political, individual or collective, temporary or permanent. Situated in the heart of the Middle East and North Africa, CMRS aims at furthering the scientific knowledge of the large, longstanding, and more recent, refugee and migration movements in this region.
Academic Programs
Master of Arts in Migration and Refugee Studies (MA)
The MA in migration and refugee studies is an interdisciplinary degree program that aims to provide graduates with critical knowledge, research methods and analytical skills of current theoretical, legal, political, economic, social, demographic and psychological issues in migration and refugee studies.
Graduate Diploma In Migration and Refugee Studies
The graduate degree is an interdisciplinary degree program that aims to provide graduates with critical knowledge, research methods, and analytical skills of current theoretical, legal, political, economic, social, demographic, and psychological issues in migration and refugee studies.
Research
Research Topics
CMRS strives to be a hub for scholars throughout the region. It participates in the building of an operational scientific community by conducting collaborative research, conferences, seminars and debates with a view to developing comparative analyses on migration and refugee issues.
Visiting Fellows and Affiliation Opportunities
CMRS hosts a number of visiting research scholars and fellows carrying out independent research projects during their stay in Cairo. During their affiliation, CMRS fellows present at least one seminar and participate in a number of other activities at AUC. CMRS values the contributions that the following research affiliates made to the program.
Research Partners
Throughout its over twenty years of existence, CMRS partnered with many universities, research centers and individuals working on migration and refugee issues. Such partnerships took different forms including cooperation in joint research, organizing joint conferences, and publishing jointly in edited volumes and peer review journals.
Announcements
- Cairo Studies on Migration and Refugees’ Paper no.15 is now published online. The paper entitled Preventing Statelessness among Migrants and Refugee Children in North Africa: the case of Egypt is a result of a collaborative project between CMRS and the Middle East Studies Center of the London School of Economics”
- On Thursday May 27, CMRS organized a virtual workshop on the policy implications of smuggling and trafficking in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The workshop is in the framework of a partnership between CMRS/AUC and Transcrime, a Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna and the Università degli Studi di Perugia
- Summer 2021 Online Courses: Read More about the three courses offered in May and June 2021
- CMRS and the International Human Rights Clinic (IHCR), at Boston University School of Law (BU), organized a dialogue on Statelessness and Refugees in Egypt on Saturday, April 24, 2021. The summary of the dialogue will be posted on the CMRS website
- On the occasion of the pandemic: Reflections on Egyptian Labor Migration. Read More
- CMRS Policy Brief Concerning the Work and Living Conditions of Egyptian Migrant Workers in Jordan. (English / Arabic)
- Statement by CMRS on the World Refugee Day
- Statement by the Migration and Refugee Forum for the Arab World (MARFA) on the occasion of International Workers' Day 202
- Dr. Ibrahim Awad, warns of the consequences of leaving refugees in double jeopardy during the battle against the pandemic. Read More
- Statement by the Migration and Refugee Forum for the Arab World (MARFA) (English / Arabic)
CMRS Specialized Training
Trainings for Researchers and practitioners
Training for Migrants and Refugees
Our Resources
Contact Us
AUC New Cairo
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
Research Centers Building, Second Floor
P.O. Box 74, New Cairo 11835, Egypt
AUC Tahrir Square
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
Outreach Projects, Hill House, Fifth Floor, Room 507
AUC Tahrir Square,113 Kasr El Aini
P.O. Box 2511,Cairo 11511, Egypt