Professor of Poli Sci & Legal Studies @UMass. law, courts, migration, citizenship. (she/her) Books: Crossing (SUP 2021) and Let Me be a Refugee (OUP 2014)
Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts
Joined September 2014
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My author’s copies came in the mail! You can get yours for just $25 from @stanfordpress sup.org/books/title/?id=3144…
It was a pleasure commenting on @UlrikeBialas excellent book in my essay, “Categories, binaries, and legibility in Ulrike Bialas’ Forever 17” for Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Some context:
1) Yes, the right to apply for asylum attaches once someone is on US soil.
2) No, this is not unique to the US, it is law in many countries.
3) No, there are not "thousands of judges." Through June there were 725. Total. Nationwide. That's part of the problem!
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Deadline this Friday! Don’t forget to apply. 📣
Call for papers: Recognizing Refugees. Join me and @ProfCCostello at @ucddublin on April 11 2025 for a workshop on Refugee Admission, Relocation and Recognition Practices in Comparative and Transnational Social Sciences. Details attached! dropbox.com/scl/fi/lihczklb7…
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The amazing @hamlinr1 and I are running a workshop for researchers, esp early career, @UCDLawSchool in Dublin - see call for papers below - we welcome papers from politics, sociolegal studies, sociology on refugee admission and recognition practices - details below!
Call for papers: Recognizing Refugees. Join me and @ProfCCostello at @ucddublin on April 11 2025 for a workshop on Refugee Admission, Relocation and Recognition Practices in Comparative and Transnational Social Sciences. Details attached! dropbox.com/scl/fi/lihczklb7…
Call for papers: Recognizing Refugees. Join me and @ProfCCostello at @ucddublin on April 11 2025 for a workshop on Refugee Admission, Relocation and Recognition Practices in Comparative and Transnational Social Sciences. Details attached! dropbox.com/scl/fi/lihczklb7…
I was invited by @Shepherd_books to make a list of what I think are the best books to really understand global migration. Check it out! shepherd.com/best-books/real…
A huge perk of serving as a reviewer is keeping up with cutting edge research. I just added two hot off the presses articles I had the pleasure of reviewing to my Law & Global Migration syllabus. @UlrikeBialas piece in @migpolitics and Geoff Boyce’s piece in Law&Policy (links) ^
scipost.org/MigPol.2.1.003
Ambiguous Ages, Ambivalent Youths: How Asylum Seekers in Germany Navigate Age Categorization
Ulrike Bialas
Mig. Pol. 2, 003 (2023)
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.@hamlinr1 looks at the causes driving the huge waves of migration globally, how these causes can interact and complicate one another, and the effects of government policies designed to stem it.
thesgnl.com/2024/08/global-m…
#migration #currentaffairsstrangeworld
Six more weeks to apply to join the exciting Legal Studies program at UMass! Pass it on to anyone you think would be a good fit for an interdisciplinary, fast growing center for the study of Law & Society!
UMass is hiring for a TT Asst Prof position in Legal Studies, jointly with the Commonwealth Honors College. Deadline 9/10. We are looking for someone with expertise on the criminal punishment system/carceral state in the US or US in comp perspective. nam10.safelinks.protection.o…
UMass is hiring for a TT Asst Prof position in Legal Studies, jointly with the Commonwealth Honors College. Deadline 9/10. We are looking for someone with expertise on the criminal punishment system/carceral state in the US or US in comp perspective. nam10.safelinks.protection.o…
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In the latest Human Rights Quarterly,
@hamlinr1, Jamie Rowen, and Luz María Sánchez show the disconnect between the Colombian state's original goal to assist migrants with return as a form of reparation and displaced Colombians' goals for stability abroad. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9…
If you study the politics of asylum and would be interested in contributing a chapter to a critical handbook on this topic, please reach out to me with some information about your area of focus. I want to cast a broad net and amplify junior ppl, scholars of color, Global South
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Wow wow wow SO excited to see this piece published today. Many thanks are owed: @carlbontempo @hamlinr1 for their incredible research on this topic, of which I have BARELY begun to scratch the surface: thank you for taking the time to chat with me! 1/
"The words we use to describe people who have left their homes — from migrant to refugee to asylum-seeker — have major legal consequences for those to whom they are assigned and major influence on how they are perceived and welcomed." | @_laurendmiller newlinesmag.com/essays/how-d…
Lovely piece by @_laurendmiller for @newlinesmag talking about the concept of a refugee. Was fun being interviewed for this! newlinesmag.com/essays/how-d…
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Some #StateoftheUnion watchers were surprised to hear President Biden use the word “illegal” to describe an unauthorized immigrant accused of murder
@hamlinr1 has detailed the battle over words in our Migration Information Source magazine: migrationpolicy.org/article/…
ALT "One of the earliest such examples in the United States was the campaign, beginning in the early 2000s, to move away from using the word 'illegal' to describe immigrants who lack legal status. The campaign, sometimes called 'Drop the I Word,' was spearheaded by a nonprofit social justice organization called Race Forward. Campaigners invoked a quote from Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel—“no human being is illegal”—in arguing that the word was dehumanizing and contributed to a culture of violence towards people suspected of being in the United States without authorization"
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I’m beginning to realize even pretty high-info news consumers don’t know Congress is currently in the midst of negotiating a radically hawkish bill that’d be the biggest change to immigration law since 1996.
If you follow me you know this but maybe your friends don’t? Tell em!
