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APSA’s Migration & Citizenship section is offering a limited number of $300 travel grants for members attending the annual meeting in Vancouver.

Apply here by 5/30:
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Junior scholars and those from under-resourced institutions are especially encouraged to apply!

APSA’s Migration & Citizenship section is offering a limited number of $300 travel grants for members attending the annual meeting in Vancouver.

Apply here by 5/30:
apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...

📣📣 Call for Nominations 📣📣

APSA’s Migration & Citizenship section award nominations are now open:
- Best Book
- Best Article
- Best Dissertation
- Best Graduate Student Paper
- Emerging Scholar
- Career Achievement

Self-nominations encouraged! Deadline is March 1, 2025. Criteria and instructions 👇

Attn friends of early career scholars of migration and citizenship: Nominate your colleagues! @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social is accepting nominations for the Emerging Scholar Award, and I'm chairing the committee. Nominations due March 1st. Info on nomination procedures at apsanet.org/membership/o...

🚨last day to submit your paper/panel proposals on migration, refugees, diaspora, nationalism for the upcoming ASN World Convention in May🚨
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New paper in @apsrjournal.bsky.social with @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, Dominik Hangartner, and Dalston Ward about #immigration and voting for the #FarRight in #Switzerland

The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field? Abstract. Methodological nationalism is the assumption that nation-states are the relevant units for analyzing social phenomena. Most of the social sciences rec

Nationalism seriously stifles creativity.
It's hard even to imagine what it would be like to treat foreigners just like compatriots.
Even philosophers, who usually imagine exotic #thought experiments, can't consider if trivial principles can apply to immigrants too

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The Increase in Refugees to Germany and Exclusionary Beliefs and Behaviors1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 3 In 2015–16, Germany experienced a rapid and controversial increase in refugees that varied substantially across German districts. This increase provides unique leverage for analyzing how fractionaliza...

More than 1 million refugees migrated to Germany in 2015-2016.

How did this affect Germans’ exclusionary beliefs & behaviors?

New at American Journal of Sociology w/Giesselmann & @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Migration Unboxed Podcast · Migration Mobilities Bristol · Conversations about migration are often inside the box: numbers, causes, effect on the economy, how to prevent it. This podcast unboxes migration. It opens up ...

Nice new podcast from Migration folks at Bristol tinyurl.com/yp6pzf34 #migcitsky

How immigration in Canada may be an important model for the U.S. Canadians have confidence in the government's policy on border security, and on the broad public benefits of immigration.

Many folks are frustrated with our immigration debate. I wrote about how it could be different using Canada as a model where liberals and conservatives maintain productive disagreements by treating immigration like any other policy to benefit society.

There is no reason this can't happen in the US

Numbers, Selectivity, and Rights: The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences - Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell, Richard Traunmüller, 2024 Immigration is an extremely divisive political issue in Western Europe and North America. We examine whether immigration policy preferences are more nuanced tha...

“Numbers, Selectivity, and Rights: The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences”, by Helbling, @rahsaanmax.bsky.social, and Traunmülller
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Ethics & Global Politics Explore the current issue of Ethics & Global Politics, Volume 17, Issue 2-3, 2024

New special issue on migration and discrimination edited by Esma Baycan-Herzog, Annamari Vitikainen & Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen www.tandfonline.com/toc/zegp20/c... migcitsky

A made a little starter pack of folks working on migration, refugee studies, citizenship, etc. Please let me know if I should add you! go.bsky.app/5sBuBm8

Immigration Realities | Columbia University Press Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. They are eager to learn local languages. Immigration is not a burden on social services. Border walls do not wor... | CUP

As we explain in our book
-Immigrants commit less crime than US-born
-The US border region is one of the safest for US citizens
-The border isn't open
-Immigrants don't take away jobs but create more
-We aren't seeing record numbers
Preorder (30% off w code ASA):
cup.columbia.edu/book/a/97802...

Bad News for Refugees on JSTOR Bad News for Refugees analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have be...

Learn more about the history of how #refugees became an anti- #immigration punchbag in my book coauthored with Greg Philo and Pauline Donald and now available open access: jstor.org/stable/j.ctt... it was the first major study of the demonisation of #asylum seekers in Britain

“This is a moving book that represents the voices of migrants on their challenges and successes across different kinds of boundaries.” (Suresh Canagarajah)

Life in a New Language now available for pre-order. Use promo code AAFLYG6 for a discount.

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COVID success? For whom? Examining the political representation of migrants in Taiwan Taiwan’s handling of COVID-19 has been seen as a success. Nevertheless, little is known about how the government has considered migrants in its COVID-19 policies. Using a corpus analysis of the leg...

🚨 New paper out in Ethnic and Racial Studies! 🚨

While Taiwan has been praised for its COVID success, Alan Wan and I challenge what "success" means by examining how migrants are (not) included and represented in the Taiwan parliament.

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Hi migration scholars! This is the account for Migration Studies. We're led by editor-in-chief @tsourapas.bsky.social, deputy editors @williamlallen.bsky.social and Maria Koinova, and a team of associate editors. academic.oup.com/migration migcitsky polisky econsky sociology anthrosky academicsky

Last call for submissions! Don’t forget to submit! #migcitsky #poltheory #philsky

Call for Applications: 2024 Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) - APSA’s Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) is a four-day, residential institute that provides political scientists with training to conduct ethical and rigorous civically engaged research. Up to 20 scholars will be selected as ICER [...]

Apply by 4/1! APSA’s Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) is a accepting applications for a four-day, residential institute that provides political scientists with training to conduct ethical and rigorous civically engaged research. polisky
politicalsciencenow.com/call-for-app...

‘Publishing in FMR is an excellent way to reach a broad readership & to showcase research in an accessible & compact way.' -Prof. Jane McAdam

See www.fmreview.org/writing-fmr. To submit a proposal on financing #displacement response, see www.fmreview.org/financing-displacement-response

#Refugees

We’ve extended the deadline for APSA’s Migration & Citizenship Best Graduate Paper Award to March 18! Award criteria and nomination instructions 👇

Deadline is tomorrow!

This Friday!

New in @DiasporaStudies! In "Extending Voting Rights to Emigrants" @nw_allen and I argue that variation in HOW emigrant voting comes to pass helps us better understand WHY enfranchisement occurs. Open Access! #polisky @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @enmisa.bsky.social
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Very much looking forward to sharing my experiences and learning from others in this mentoring workshop on "Publishing in Migration Journals".