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Abdelaaty Talks to CNN, Mother Jones About Why Countries Embrace Some Refugees but Not Others

March 12, 2022

Lamis Abdelaaty, assistant professor of political science, explains why countries embrace some refugees but not others in CNN, Mother Jones and The London Economic articles.

See related: Human Rights, Middle East & North Africa, Refugees, Ukraine

For Doctoral Student, Afghanistan Is an Elusive Home

December 20, 2021

See related: Afghanistan, International Affairs, Race & Ethnicity, Refugees

Jacobson Speaks to CBS News, DW, WAER about the Afghanistan Withdrawal

September 29, 2021
Top Pentagon leaders testified publicly before lawmakers for the first time since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Mark Jacobson, assistant dean for Washington Programs, spoke with CBS News, Deutsche Welle and WAER about their testimony and the aftermath of the Afghanistan withdrawal.

See related: Afghanistan, Congress, Foreign Policy, International Affairs, Refugees, United States, Veterans

Campbell quoted in USA Today article on Haitians at Texas border

September 21, 2021
Horace Campbell, professor of political science, calls the expulsion of Haitians "inhumane" and "criminal." Read more in the USA Today article, "White House calls video of border agents chasing Haitian migrants 'horrific,' DHS promises to investigate."

See related: Human Rights, Latin America & the Caribbean, Refugees, United States

Jacobson Piece on Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan Published in TIME

September 14, 2021
"The U.S. Turned Away Jewish Refugees in 1939. We Must Not Repeat History With Afghans Fleeing the Taliban," co-authored by Assistant Dean of Washington Programs Mark Jacobson, was published in TIME. 

See related: Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Government, Human Rights, International Affairs, Refugees

Abdelaaty talks to New Books Network about her book "Discrimination and Delegation"

June 8, 2021
Lamis Abelaaty, assistant professor of political science, spoke with the New Books Network about her recently published book "Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees" (Oxford University Press, 2021).

See related: International Agreements, Refugees

Elizabeth Cohen discusses immigration policy in 2021 in AlterNet piece

April 30, 2021
"From a failure to rescind the former president's Title 42, causing almost all recent asylum-seekers to be expelled from the U.S., to President Biden's equivocation on the 2021 refugee cap, it's almost impossible to find good news about immigration policy in 2021," writes Elizabeth Cohen, professor of political science.

See related: Refugees, U.S. Immigration, United States

McCormick talks to Associated Press, Bloomberg about the US-Mexico border crisis

March 24, 2021
A U.S. delegation discussed immigration and regional development in a series of meetings in Mexico on Tuesday at a time when the rising number of migrants arriving at their shared border has raised concerns in both countries.

See related: Latin America & the Caribbean, Refugees, United States

Abdelaaty study on human rights, refugee protection published in IJHR

February 12, 2021

See related: Human Rights, Refugees

Lamis Abdelaaty examines disparities in refugee treatment

December 26, 2020

See related: Refugees

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