This was originally established at the Department of International Development (ODID) of the University of Oxford in 2006 thanks to support by the Oxford Martin School. IMI was initiated as a collaboration between Steven Vertovec, then-director of Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), and Stephen Castles, then-director of the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC). Stephen Castles became IMI’s first Director. He was succeeded by Robin Cohen (2009-11), Hein de Haas and Oliver Bakewell (2011-16) and Mathias Czaika (2017). In 2017, IMI ceased to operate as an institute at the University of Oxford, and became an international network (IMI-n). From 2019, IMI has been part of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam.
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