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Pearson Study on Southern White Migrants and the Political Landscape Featured in The Economist

Between 1900 and 1940, roughly five million southern whites left former Confederate states and neighboring Oklahoma. In a peer-reviewed study to be published later this year, Thomas Pearson, assistant professor of economics, and his co-authors found that this group was not just greater in number, but, as they spread their culture and attitudes, perhaps in political influence, too.

April 4, 2023

Lamis Abdelaaty Receives Gerda Henkel Foundation Grant to Support Book Research

The associate professor of political science will examine what constitutes a refugee crisis in her second book.

March 30, 2023

See related: Grant Awards, Refugees

Abdelaaty Receives ISA Ethnicity, Nationalism & Migration Studies Section’s Distinguished Book Award

"Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees" (Oxford University Press, 2021), written by Associate Professor of Political Science Lamis Abdelaaty, received the Distinguished Book Award from the International Studies Association's Ethnicity, Nationalism, & Migration Studies section.

March 17, 2023

Social Status and Gendered Pathways to Citizenship

Jeannette Money, Sara Kazemian, Audie Klotz, Marisella Rodriguez

"Social Status and Gendered Pathways to Citizenship," co-authored by Professor of Political Science Audie Klotz, was published in International Migration Review. 

February 15, 2023

See related: Gender and Sex, Migration

Murphy’s “The Creole Archipelago” Awarded 2022 FEEGI Book Prize

The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) awarded its 2022 book prize to Tessa Murphy, associate professor of history, for her book "The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean." 

February 3, 2023

Abdelaaty Selected as a 2023 Migration Politics Residential Fellow

As a fellow, Lamis Abdelaaty, associate professor of political science, will work on her proposal, "The Emissary Speaks: Political Agency in Refugee-UNHCR Correspondence."

January 27, 2023

Attitudes about Refugees and Immigrants Arriving in the United States: A Conjoint Experiment

Liza G. Steele, Lamis Abdelaaty, Nga Than

"Attitudes about Refugees and Immigrants Arriving in the United States: A Conjoint Experiment," authored by Associate Professor of Political Science Lamis Abdelaaty, was published in Ethnic and Racial Studies.

January 13, 2023

See related: Refugees, United States

“As if I Were an Illegal”: Racial Passing in Immigrant Russia

Lauren Woodard

"'As if I Were an Illegal': Racial Passing in Immigrant Russia," authored by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Lauren Woodard, was published in Cultural Anthropology.

November 23, 2022

See related: Civil Rights, Migration, Russia

New Article by Abdelaaty and Thorson Explores the Prevalence of Misperceptions About Refugee Policy

Lamis Abdelaaty, Emily Thorson

"Misperceptions about Refugee Policy," co-authored by political science professors Lamis Abdelaaty and Emily Thorson, was published in American Political Science Review.

October 20, 2022

See related: Refugees, United States

Elizabeth Cohen Weighs in on Migrant Busing Crisis in Newsweek Article

"Stunts like busing and chartering flights to remove immigrants from states like Florida and Texas are not planned...for the purpose of relocating immigrants in places where they can get their bearings and begin their new lives. The purpose is to generate dehumanizing headlines and discussions," says Cohen, professor of political science.

October 11, 2022

See related: Migration, United States

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