CMS Update:

Thematic Areas

CMS-NAU is basically a Centre for research in migration. The other mandates of the Centre are founded and sustained by its research mandate and output. The research interests of the Centre shall be undertaken under the following thematic areas:

Migration: Policies, Governance and Human Rights
Education, Brain Drain and Brain Gain
Labour, Employment and Remittances
Irregular Migration, Human Trafficking and Smuggling
Migration: Women, Children and Youth
Migration: Health, Environment and Climate Change
Diaspora
Forced Migration: IDPs, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Integration, Return and Reintegration
Migration Data, Planning and Development

The Centre for Migration Studies, Nnamdi Azikiwe University (CMS-NAU) is the first of its kind in Nigeria established within a University with a comprehensive focus on the study and research of the gamut of migration issues; internal displacement or forced migration, local and international migration, refugees and asylum seekers, regular and irregular migration, brain drain, brain gain, brain circulation, remittances, return and reintegration, migration and development, etc.

Created by the Senate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University and commissioned on 28 th August, 2018 by the Honourable Federal Commissioner for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), the Centre assumes a leading role in articulating and projecting the contribution of Nigerian academics and researchers to the national migration discourse. The Centre perceives clearly that it will grow by developing and maintaining robust collaboration with kindred Centres in ...Read More

Our vision is to grow into a Centre of Excellence in Migration Studies by collaborative research and networking with the community of researchers, scholars, institutions, agencies and organizations involved in migration studies, management and governance across the world.
CMS-NAU envisions a nation, a continent and a world of informed peoples and perspectives on migration resulting in a paradigm shift from the migration-as-problem perception to migration-as-prospect orientation: migration as a natural current that creates opportunities for individuals, nations and peoples.

Our mission is to serve as a leading international Centre for the study of local and international migration dynamics with primary focus on Nigeria and Africa through a strategic, collaborative and integrated approach.