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Migration and Citizenship Section Award Recipients

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Best Article Award
Best Book Award
Best Chapter Award
Best Dissertation Award
Best Paper Award
Best Graduate Paper Award


Best Article Award

Award for best article on migration and/or citizenship published (i.e., printed) in the previous calendar year.

2023 Elizabeth Iams Wellman, Williams College
"The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950-2020)." Comparative Political Studies, 2022.
2023 Nathan Allen, St Francis Xavier University
"The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950-2020)." Comparative Political Studies, 2022.
2023 Benjamin Nyblade, University of California, Los Angeles
"The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950-2020)." Comparative Political Studies, 2022.
2022 Yang-Yang Zhou, University of British Columbia
“Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis,” American Political Science Review (2021) 115(4): 1175-1196.
2022 Andrew Shaver, University of California, Merced
“Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis,” American Political Science Review (2021) 115(4): 1175-1196.
2021 Aala Abdelgadir, Stanford University
"Political Secularism and Muslim Integration in the West: Assessing the Effects of the French Headscarf Ban." American Political Science Review,2020, 114(3):707-723.
2021 Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University
"Political Secularism and Muslim Integration in the West: Assessing the Effects of the French Headscarf Ban." American Political Science Review,2020, 114(3):707-723.
2021 Rafaela M. Dancygier, Princeton University
"The Evolution of the Immigration Debate: Evidence from a New Data Set of Party Positions Over the Last Half-Century." Comparative Political Studies, 2020, 53(5): 734–774.
2021 Yotam Margalit, Tel Aviv University 
"The Evolution of the Immigration Debate: Evidence from a New Data Set of Party Positions Over the Last Half-Century." Comparative Political Studies, 2020, 53(5): 734–774.
2019

Jeffrey D. Pugh, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“Negotiating Identity and Belonging through the Invisibility Bargain: Colombian Forced Migrants in Ecuador. International Migration Review 52:4 (2018): 978-1010.

2018 Alex Street, Carroll College
“Political Effects of Having Undocumented Parents.” Political Research Quarterly 70(4): 818–832.
2018 Chris Zepeda-Millán, University of California, Berkeley
“Political Effects of Having Undocumented Parents.” Political Research Quarterly 70(4): 818–832.
2018 Michael Jones-Correa, University of Pennsylvania
“Political Effects of Having Undocumented Parents.” Political Research Quarterly 70(4): 818–832.
2017   Saskia Bonjour, University of Amsterdam
"Speaking of Rights: The Influence of Law and Courts on the Making of Family Migration Policies in Germany." Law & Policy 38(4): 328-348.
2017 Honorable Mention
Marc Helbling, University of Bamberg       
"How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitutes Towards Muslim Immigrants." Comparative Political Studies 49(3): 391-424.
2017 Honorable Mention
Richard Traunmuller, University of Mannheim
"How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitutes Towards Muslim Immigrants." Comparative Political Studies 49(3): 391-424.
2017 Honorable Mention         
Floris Peters, Maastricht University          
"The Ecology of Immigrant Naturalization: a Life Course Approach in the Context of Institutional Conditions." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42(3):359-381.
2017 Honorable Mention
Maarten Vink, Maastricht University
"The Ecology of Immigrant Naturalization: a Life Course Approach in the Context of Institutional Conditions." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42(3):359-381.
2017  Honorable Mention 
Hans Schmeets, Maastricht University
"The Ecology of Immigrant Naturalization: a Life Course Approach in the Context of Institutional Conditions." Journal of Ethnic and   Migration Studies 42(3):359-381.
2016     Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine
“Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizenship and Integration Policy: Past Lessons and New Approaches.” Comparative Political Studies, 48, 2015
2015  Rafaela Dancygier, Princeton University
“Electoral Rules or Electoral Leverage? Explaining Muslim Representation in England” World Politics2014
2014 Antje Ellermann, University of British Columbia
"When Can Liberal States Avoid Unwanted Immigration? Self-Limited Sovereignty and Guest Worker Recruitment in Switzerland and Germany." World Politics 65: July 13, 2013, 491-538.
2013 Matthew Wright, American University
Is There a Trade-off between Multiculturalism and Socio-Political Integration? Policy Regimes and Immigrant Incorporation in Comparative Perspective (2012: Perspectives on Politics 10(1): 77-95)
2013 Irene Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley
Is There a Trade-off between Multiculturalism and Socio-Political Integration? Policy Regimes and Immigrant Incorporation in Comparative Perspective (2012:Perspectives on Politics 10(1): 77-95)
2013 Honorable Mention
Sara Goodman, University of California, Irvine
Fortifying Citizenship: Policy Strategies for Civic Integration in Western Europe (2012: World Politics 64(4): 659-698)
2013 Honorable Mention
Rebecca Hamlin, Grinnell College
International Law and Administrative Insulation: A Comparison of Refugee Status Determination Regimes in the United States, Canada, and Australia (2012: Law and Social Inquiry 37(4): 933-968)

 


Best Book Award

Best Book Award for the best book on Migration and/or Citizenship published in the previous year.

2023 Abel Escribà-Folch, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Migration and Democracies: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships. Princeton University Press, 2022.
2023 Covadonga Meseguer, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE-CIHS)
Migration and Democracies: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships. Princeton University Press, 2022.
2023 Joseph Wright, Pennsylvania State University
Migration and Democracies: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships. Princeton University Press, 2022.
2023 Rina Agarwala, Johns Hopkins University
The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration. Oxford University Press, 2022.
2022 Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty, Syracuse University
Discrimination and Delegation, Oxford University Press, 2021.
2021 Allan Colbern, Arizona State University
Citizenship Re-Imagined. A New Framework for State Rights in the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2021 S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside
Citizenship Re-Imagined. A New Framework for State Rights in the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2021 Lauren Duquette-Rury, Wayne State University
Exit and Voice. The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2019

Elizabeth Cohen, Syracuse University
The Political Value of Time. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

2018 Margaret E. Peters, University of California, Los Angeles
Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization. Princeton University Press, 2017.
2017    Els de Graauw, Baruch College, City University of New York 
Making Immigrant Rights Real: Non-Profits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2016).
2017 Feliz Garip, Cornell University
On The Move:  Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2016).
2016 Leila Kawar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Contesting Immigration Policy in Court: Legal Activism and Its Radiating Effects in the United States and France. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
2015 David Scott Fitzgerald, University of California, San Diego
Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas Harvard University Press, 2014.
2015  David Cook-Martin, University of California, San Diego
Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas. Harvard University Press, 2014.
2015 Honorable Mention
Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine
Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2014
2015 Honorable Mention
Rebecca Hamlin, Grinnell College
Let Me Be a Refugee: Administrative Justice and the Politics of Asylum in the United States, Canada, and Australia Oxford University Press, 2014
2014 Charles Taber, SUNY, Stony Brook University
The Rationalizing Voter. Cambridge University Press
2014 Martin Ruhs, Oxford University
The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration. Princeton University Press
2014 2014 Honorable Mention
Natalie Masuoka, Tufts University
The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration. University of Chicago Press
2014 Honorable Mention
Jane Junn, University of Southern California
The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration. University of Chicago Press
2014 Honorable Mention
Andrea Voyer, Pace University
Strangers and Neighbors: Multiculturalism, Conflict, and Community in America. Cambridge University Press
2013 Jonathan Laurence, Boston College
"The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims" (Princeton University Press 2012)
2013 Diane Sainsbury, Stockholm University
Welfare States and Immigrant Rights: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012)
  

Best Chapter Award

Award for best chapter on migration and/or citizenship published (i.e., printed) in the previous calendar year.

2018 Jacqueline Stevens, Northwestern University
“The Alien Who is a Citizen,” In Citizenship in Question: Evidentiary Birthright Statelessness, B.N. Lawrence and J. Stevens. Duke University Press.
2017    Floris Peters Maastricht University
Naturalization and the Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants: a Life-Course Perspective. 2016. In Handbook on Migration and Social Policy, edited by  G. P. Freeman and N. Mirilovic, 362-376. Northampton: Edward Elgar.
2017 Maarten Vink, Maastricht University
Naturalization and the Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants: a Life-Course Perspective. 2016. In Handbook on Migration and Social Policy, edited by  G. P. Freeman and N. Mirilovic, 362-376. Northampton: Edward Elgar.
2015 David Abraham, University of Miami School of Law
“Law and Migration: Many Constants, Few Changes” Routledge, 2014.
2014 Luis Plascencia, Arizona State University, West Campus
"Attrition through Enforcement and the Elimination of a ‘Dangerous Class." Latino Politics and Arizona’s Immigration Law SB1070, ed. Lisa Magaña and Erik Lee. New York: Springer.
2013 Ayelet Shachar, University of Toronto
"Citizenship" pp. 1002-1019 in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, edited by Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajó. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 


Best Dissertation Award

Award for best dissertation on migration and/or citizenship accepted in the previous calendar year.

2023 Laura Cleton, Maastricht University
Deporting Children: Policy Framing, Legitimation and Intersectional Boundary Work.” University of Antwerp.
2023 Ugur Altundal, Loyola University Maryland
“The Right to Travel: Toward an Ethics of Short-Term Mobility.” Syracuse University.
2023 Hajer Al-Faham, University of Pennsylvania
“Contingent Citizenship: Muslims in America.” University of Pennsylvania.
2022 Victoria Finn, European University Institute
"Migrant Rights, Voting, and Resocialization: Suffrage in Chile and Ecuador, 1925–2020," Ph.D., 2021, Leiden University and Universidad Diego Portales.
2021 Elif Naz Kayran, Institut De Hautes Études Internationales et Du Developpement
“Political Responses and Electoral Behaviour at Times of Socioeconomic Risk Inequalities and Immigration.”
2019

Stephanie Schwartz, Columbia University
“Homeward Bound: Return Migration and Local Conflict after Civil War.” 

2018 Kelsey Norman, University of California, Irvine
Reluctant Reception: Understanding Migration and Refugee Policy in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
2018 Volha Charnysh, Harvard University
“Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post WWII Displacement in Poland.”
2017    Adrian J. Shin, University of Michigan
"Primary Resources, Secondary Labor: Natural Resources and Immigration Policy around the World."
2016 Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of London
“Trading People, Consolidating Power: Emigration & Authoritarianism in Modern Egypt.”
2016 Daisy Kim, Johns Hopkins University
“Bargaining Citizenship: Women’s Organizations, the State, and Marriage Migrants in South Korea.”
2015 Lamis Abdelaaty, University of California, Santa Clara
Selective Sovereignty: Foreign Policy, Ethnic Identity, and the Politics of Asylum
2013 John O'Keefe, George Washington University
"From Legal Rights to Citizens' Rights and Non-Citizen Penalties: Migrant Influence, Naturalization, and the Growth of National Power over Foreign Migrants in the Early American Republic" Submitted to the History Department at the George Washington University
2013 Honorable Mention
Luicy Pedroza, Freie Universität Berlin
"Citizenship before Nationality: How Democracies Redefine Citizenship by Debating the Extension of Voting Rights to Settled Migrants" Submitted to the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences at Bremen University

 


Best Paper Award

Award for best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented at the previous APSA annual meeting (either as part of a panel or poster session).

2019

Mathilde Emeriau, Stanford University
“Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office.”

2018 Adeline Lo, Princeton University
“Engendering Empathy, Begetting Backlash: American Attitudes towards Syrian Refugees.”
2018 Melina Platas, New York University Abu Dhabi
“Engendering Empathy, Begetting Backlash: American Attitudes towards Syrian Refugees.”
2018 Claire L. Adida, University of California, San Diego
“Engendering Empathy, Begetting Backlash: American Attitudes towards Syrian Refugees.”
2017   Charlotte Cavaille, Georgetown University
"Understanding the Determinants of Welfare Chauvinism: the Role of Resource Competition."
2017 Jeremy Ferwerda, Dartmouth University
"Understanding the Determinants of Welfare Chauvinism: the Role of Resource Competition."
2016 Antje Ellermann, University of British Columbia
“Race, Gender, Class, Disability, and the Ethics of Immigrant Selection.”
2016 Agustin Goenaga Orrego, Lund University
“Race, Gender, Class, Disability, and the Ethics of Immigrant Selection.”
2015 Leila Kawar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Bringing Immigration to the Law: Immigrant Rights, Legal Activism, and the Enactment of Adversarial Legalism"

 


Best Graduate Paper Award

Award for best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented by a graduate student at the previous APSA annual meeting (either as part of a panel or poster session).

2023 Rithika Kumar, University of Pennsylvania
“Left Behind or Left Ahead? Implications of Male Migration on Female Political Engagement”
2022 Samuel D. Schmidt, University of Lecerne
“Open Borders versus Inclusive Citizenship? Distinct and Common Logics in Immigration and Membership Politics," Paper presented at the 2021 APSA Meeting.
2021

Aala Abdelgadir, Stanford University
“The Dynamics of Refugee Return: Syrian Refugees and Their Migration Intentions.”