Instituto de Migraciones

What Instituto de Migraciones does

The Instituto de Migraciones is a research institute affiliated with the Universidad de Granada, a public university in Granada, Spain, founded in 2009 and operating with approximately 8 staff. Its core activity is the production and dissemination of academic research on migration phenomena, delivered through three principal channels: the dedicated Programa de Doctorado en Estudios Migratorios (Doctoral Program in Migration Studies), an active calendar of seminars and conferences including the weekly Cocinando Ideas doctoral seminar series, and the Centro de Documentación en Estudios Migratorios (CDEM), a free-access digital documentation center created between 2017 and 2019 that hosts over 4,600 documents across four repositories — doctoral theses, scientific articles, congress communications (since 1998), and a researcher directory.

The CDEM platform functions as the institute's principal technology artifact: a content-library repository built collaboratively with ten national Spanish research centers under the REsMI Excellence Networks State Program, accessible worldwide via cdem.info. The institute coordinates the Ibero-American RIIR network of 50+ institutions and participates in the Arqus European university alliance, providing channels for international academic exchange, visiting scholars, and joint seminars. The institute is governed by a recently appointed director, María Dolores García Valverde, following a 2025 electoral process.

As a public university research institute, the Instituto de Migraciones does not operate a commercial revenue model. All services — doctoral training, the CDEM repository, seminars, and conferences — are provided free of charge to researchers, students, and the general public. The institute is funded through its parent university's public budget and reports no funding rounds, no paying customers, no pricing structure, and no disclosed revenue. Its customer base consists of doctoral students and researchers in migration studies as the primary segment, and the broader scientific community and general public as a secondary segment.

Name

Instituto de Migraciones

Legal name

Universidad de Granada

Website

https://migraciones.ugr.es

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Instituto de Migraciones is a public university research institute at the Universidad de Granada in Spain, dedicated to migration studies. It runs a doctoral program, hosts seminars, and operates the CDEM, a free-access digital repository of over 4,600 academic documents on migration.

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Product category

Academic Research Services

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAAADAF

Digital Access & Online Government Services for Immigrants

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Citizenship & Immigrant Integration Education

SECONDARYEDAAADAI

Refugee & Humanitarian Newcomer Orientation (Resettlement Support)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Citizenship & Immigrant Integration Education

SECONDARYBPADAHAB

Asylum & Refugee Status Determination (RSD) Support

Business & Public Services/International Organizations & Development/Refugee, Migration & Displacement Services

SECONDARYBPAGAAAH

Refugee, IDP & Migration Humanitarian Assistance

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Humanitarian Aid & Disaster Relief

Keywords

• Migration studies research
• Doctoral program
• Academic documentation center
• University research institute
• Scientific publications repository

Headquarters

HQ city

Granada

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Instituto de Migraciones is an academic research institute of the Universidad de Granada that delivers migration-focused research training, doctoral education, and an open-access documentation center. Its main offerings are the CDEM digital repository (over 4,600 theses, scientific articles, congress communications, and researcher profiles), the Programa de Doctorado en Estudios Migratorios (including the Cocinando Ideas seminar series), and academic activities such as seminars, conferences, and research projects on migration phenomena.

Product overview

Instituto de Migraciones is an academic research institute at the Universidad de Granada. Its core offerings consist of the Centro de Documentación en Estudios Migratorios (CDEM), a documentation center with four specialized repositories (theses, articles, congress communications, and researcher directory), and the Programa de Doctorado en Estudios Migratorios which provides doctoral-level education through seminar series such as 'Cocinando Ideas'. The institute also conducts research projects and organizes academic activities including seminars, conferences, and workshops on migration topics.

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Products and services

• Centro de Documentación en Estudios Migratorios (CDEM) An open-access digital documentation center that provides immediate and free access to over 4,600 resources covering doctoral theses, scientific articles, congress communications, and a researcher directory related to migration studies in Spain. It is intended for doctoral students, researchers, the scientific community, and the general public interested in migration phenomena.
• Programa de Doctorado en Estudios Migratorios A doctoral program offering seminars, research training, and thesis supervision focused on migration studies, including the weekly Cocinando Ideas seminar series. It serves graduate students and researchers pursuing doctoral degrees on migration phenomena at the Universidad de Granada.
• Investigación y Proyectos Research activities encompassing projects on migration topics, a visiting scholars program, and international collaboration initiatives coordinated by the institute. It is intended for researchers, academics, and partner institutions participating in migration studies research.
• Actividades Formativas Seminars, doctoral seminars, conferences, and workshops on migration-related topics including the Cocinando Ideas weekly series. Targeted at doctoral students, researchers, and the academic community engaged in migration studies.

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Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Red Iberoamericana de Investigación en Imaginarios y Representaciones (RIIR)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020The institute participates in the RIIR, an Ibero-American research network with members from over 50 institutions across Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, and Spain. The institute co-organized the I Seminario Internacional and III Seminario Colombiano sobre Imaginarios y Representaciones in September 2020.
• 10 National Research Centers (Red REsMI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017The CDEM was created between 2017 and 2019 within the framework of the 'Redes de Excelencia' (Excellence Networks) State Program (Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia), called REsMI, from the Instituto de Migraciones of the Universidad de Granada, together with ten national research centers across Spain.
• Arqus AllianceminorOthersThe Instituto de Migraciones is part of the Arqus alliance, a European university alliance that the Universidad de Granada participates in, shown in the website footer.
• Laboratorio de Estudios InterculturalescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Instituto de Migraciones collaborates with the Laboratorio de Estudios Interculturales (Intercultural Studies Laboratory) on seminars and research activities, including the organization of events such as the predoctoral seminar 'Mujeres migrantes en Río de Janeiro'.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• IMIS - Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien, Universität Osnabrück: German university institute dedicated to migration and intercultural studies, conducting research, hosting scholars, and producing publications. Direct structural peer to the Instituto de Migraciones in mission, scale, and university affiliation.
• CIDOB - Barcelona Centre for International Affairs: Barcelona-based research centre covering migration among other international affairs topics, with publications, seminars, and policy engagement. Closest Spanish peer given its regional focus, multilingual output, and policy-oriented research mission.

Broad incumbents

• European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER), Utrecht University: European research centre focused on migration and ethnic relations within Utrecht University. Comparable academic migration research mandate though embedded in a broader social science faculty.
• International Migration Institute (IMI), University of Amsterdam: Multidisciplinary migration research centre producing working papers, hosting researchers, and running comparative migration studies. Directly comparable in research mandate and doctoral training focus, with broader international footprint.
• Center for Migration Studies (CMS), New York: US-based think tank conducting migration research and policy analysis with a documentation/publishing arm. Comparable as a dedicated migration research institute, though more policy-oriented and with stronger US/Latin America focus.
• Migration Policy Centre (MPC), European University Institute, Florence: Research and policy centre at EUI conducting migration research with strong European policy engagement. Comparable mission and research-output focus, with greater European-level policy influence.
• COMPAS - Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford: Oxford's dedicated migration research centre running doctoral training, research projects, and public policy work on migration. Highly comparable mission to Instituto de Migraciones but with significantly larger scale, English-language output, and global visibility.
• Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS), UC San Diego: University-based research centre studying international migration with conferences, working papers, and graduate training. Comparable research and training mandate, though with stronger Latin America and US focus.

Emerging players

• FLACSO - Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales: Latin American social sciences institution with active migration research programs across multiple country offices. Relevant peer given the institute's RIIR Latin American network ties and shared migration research themes.

Others

• Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK), New York University: University research hub supporting interdisciplinary scholarship with seminars and working groups. Comparable as an academic research-and-events venue supporting migration-adjacent scholarship, though broader in scope.

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Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

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