When:
Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00 PM
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1:30 PM
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Comparative Politics and International Relations
Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees
What
explains state responses to the refugees they receive? Discrimination
and Delegation identifies two puzzling patterns: states open their
borders to some refugee groups while blocking others (discrimination), and
a number of countries have given the UN control of asylum procedures on
their territory (delegation). In the talk, Abdelaaty will describe the
two-part theoretical framework she has developed in which policymakers in
refugee-receiving countries weigh international and domestic concerns. The
talk will also include some evidence from the book’s three-stage research
design, which combines statistical analysis of asylum admissions
worldwide, country case studies of Egypt and Turkey, and content analysis
of parliamentary proceedings in Kenya.
Lamis Abdelaaty
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Lamis Abdelaaty is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the
Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and Senior Research Associate at the
Campbell Public Affairs Institute. Her research and teaching deal with the
international politics of refugees, and her publications have appeared or are
forthcoming in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of
Refugee Studies, Political Studies, and International
Interactions. Her research has been supported by the National Science
Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center
for Peace and Justice, and the Princeton Institute for International and
Regional Studies. She holds a doctoral degree in politics from Princeton
University.
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