An essential guide to the institutes, centers, and labs across the University engaged in migration studies. This overview highlights the diverse spaces where cutting-edge research, clinical practice, and impact-driven education are taking place.

  • Afro-Latin American Research Institute

    Our mission is to stimulate and sponsor scholarship on the Afro-Latin American experience, and provide a forum where scholars, intellectuals, activists and policy makers engage in knowledge producing exchanges and debates. Visit the website.

  • Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

    The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is the hub of Harvard Kennedy School's research, teaching, and training in international security and diplomacy, environment and natural resource issues, and science and technology policy. Visit the website.

  • Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights

    The Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights serves as the hub of the Harvard Kennedy School’s research, teaching, and training in the human rights domain. The center embraces a dual mission: to educate students and the next generation of leaders from around the world in human rights policy and practice; and to convene and provide policy-relevant knowledge to international organizations, governments, policymakers, and businesses. Visit the website.

  • David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

    The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard is an international, university-wide center focusing on Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diaspora communities. Our mission is to foster, expand, and leverage Harvard's research, educational, and convening capabilities within the region. We aim to contribute to a more informed, democratic, sustainable, prosperous, equitable, and inclusive world. Visit the website.

  • FXB’s Program for Immigrant Families and Unhoused Communities

    The FXB’s Program for Immigrant Families and Unhoused Communities is a joint program with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. It is a unique place for scholar-practitioners who are both in the classroom and working directly with affected communities. The program highlights the need for greater public health involvement and a human rights-based focus on the health of people marginalized by economic impoverishment, displacement, xenophobia and racism in the United States. Visit the website.

  • Global Education and Research: Unleashing Potential (GEAR:UP)

    Housed within the Harvard Center for International Development, GEAR:UP supports CID’s mission to build, convene, and deploy talent to address critical challenges in global education by buiilding global talent, convening academic and practitioner networks, and deploying research. Visit the website.

  • Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic

    The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program seeks to advance immigrants’ rights through clinical education. Working closely with clinical supervisors, law students in the Program take the lead in representing low-income immigrants who are fighting deportation and seeking immigration status in the United States. Students utilize a range of legal advocacy tools on behalf of their clients, including direct representation, impact litigation, policy advocacy, and community outreach. Visit the website.

  • Harvard/MGH Program in Refugee Trauma

    The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT), originally founded at the Harvard School of Public Health, is a multi-disciplinary program that has been pioneering the health and mental health care of traumatized refugees and civilians in areas of conflict/post-conflict and natural disasters for over two decades. Its clinical program serves as a global model that has been replicated worldwide. Visit the website.

  • Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop

    Members of the Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation workshop share a common interest in international migration and the incorporation of immigrants into host societies. This broad topic includes questions of race and the integration of the second generation (the children of immigrants). While the majority of participants focus on the United States, the workshop includes and is open to researchers studying other immigrant-receiving countries. Visit the website.

  • Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States

    The Observatory of the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures in the United States is a research center of the Instituto Cervantes–a public non-profit organization–at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University. Intended for the study of Spanish in the U.S. both in its linguistic and cultural dimensions, the Observatorio aims to serve as an international forum for analysis and debate among experts from Harvard University and other universities in the U.S., as well as from Spain and Latin America. Visit the website.

  • Refugee REACH

    REACH collaborates with educators, policymakers, and researchers to ensure that all young people have access to inclusive and quality learning, the chance to develop relationships of belonging, and the ability to create future opportunities.We engage in Research, Education, and Action to create Change and Hope. We believe this mission is a collective responsibility and seek to bring together individuals, communities, and institutions in working together to realize it. Visit the website.

  • The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR)

    The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR) is a standing committee in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. EMR Secondary Fields offer students an opportunity to pursue sustained, interdisciplinary study of ethnicity, migration, Indigeneity, and human rights. EMR also hosts academic working groups in Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies, Dissertation Writing, Latinx Studies, and Muslim American Studies. Visit the website.
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