Center for Migration and Refugee Studies

The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) is an interdisciplinary center of The American University in Cairo. It aims at furthering the scientific knowledge of the large, long-standing, and more recent, refugee and migration movements witnessed in this region. But it is concerned with questions of refugees and migration in the international system as a whole, both at the theoretical and practical levels. CMRS functions include instruction, research, training, and outreach. CMRS outreach involves working with its environment, disseminating knowledge, and sensitization to refugee and migration issues. It also provides services to the refugee community in Cairo and transfers its expertise in this respect to other international institutions.

Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) Vision

To be an internationally recognized scholarly center for its production and exchange of knowledge on migration and refugee issues. We build on our existing strength as the first and among the few academic institutions in the region of the Middle East and North Africa that offers post-graduate degrees in migration and refugee studies, combined with research, training, and outreach activities in the same field.