Thank you to VoxDev for featuring our research. While we find that increased humanitarian aid in Uganda has led to improvements in public services for refugees and locals alike, we're concerned that recent large-scale cuts in funding might reverse all these benefits.

This #WorldRefugeeDay_2023, we're proud to support a new project, Refugee Housing Canada, that aims to support vulnerable #refugees in Metro Vancouver to find a safe place to live. Learn more on how you can get involved: refugeehousing.ca/#row-5KqGCxg67Y #RefugeesWelcome #RefugeeWeek

The latest E&M Links are up. This week's post features work by Adrian Ma, Brittany Cronin, Paddy Hirsch, Tim Harford, Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱, @guygrossman, Shuning Ge, and many more! Read it here: cgdev.org/blog/economics… 🖋️Ranil Dissanayake (Center for Global Development)

What does successful migrant integration look like? Four members of CIFAR’s Boundaries, Membership & Belonging program are exploring a new framework that supports cultural maintenance and adaptation. cifar.ca/cifarnews/2023…

Happy to share the newest ep of Scope Conditions Podcast! We talked with William Nomikos about his new book on how the United Nations keeps the peace among neighbors. His theory on impartiality is grounded in psych, and he uses innovative lab-in-the-field experiments in Mali. Definitely check it out!

Sharing our new episode with Iza Ding! Environmental issues are serious in China, but its Protection Bureau rarely fine offending factories. Yet they make a big show of doing stuff for citizens. To uncover this, Iza used ethnography, embedding herself within an agency. 🤯

Leah Rosenzweig and Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱 , what are you predicting for the winner (and loser) of tonight’s #AFCON2024 FINAL?

New literature review on the social and economics impacts of migration on children. Joint work with Maida Cortina and Juan M Jimenez, paper here: documents.worldbank.org/en/publication… Main Takeaways:

MIT is excited to host BWGAPE on Friday May 3! This coming Friday — Marcy 29 — is the last day to submit your working paper or research design: docs.google.com/forms/d/1qymPe… Looking forward to hosting you in Cambridge! Noah Nathan Evan Lieberman

With growing displacement and negative attitudes towards migrants, can bringing locals and migrants together in classrooms improve attitudes? Our study (w. Jason Lyall) in Afghanistan shows this contact (lasting 3-6 mos) is not enough. AJPS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

Does your research or work in government involve questions concerning refugee/asylum seeker flows? Out today in the American Political Science Review, my most recent research with Benjamin Krick and an outstanding team of (now former) UC Merced Political Science Political Violence Lab members: 🧵

Interested in the leading edge of comparative research on migration attitudes and political behaviour? Isabel ruiz and I are hosting a conference in Oxford on 28-29 May, supported by The British Academy Nuffield Politics Research Centre Migration Oxford: programme and registration at thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british…

A new study by government professors Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱 and Jason Lyall focused on Afghanistan shows that prolonged contact with locals doesn’t curb prejudice toward migrants. “The data shows how very difficult it is to change peoples’ attitudes." bit.ly/3QGYBi9

New Open Access article Journal of Politics @[email protected] : journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… In "Left Out," Alisha Holland, Dr. Margaret Peters, and I find in Colombia that misperceptions about migrants' political ideology (that they are more leftist than they actually are) can drive opposition to migrant reception.

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📌 Reminder: EGAP is now accepting new applications for individual researchers & institutional members. Deadline: Sept 30, 2024 For more details & to apply, see here: forms.gle/eFfNQFQzZR9UMX… Please RT & share w/ networks!

I had the best time catching up with my friend Joan Ricart-Huguet! We learn about what happens when the *sorting hat* at Makerere University sorts incoming students randomly into their dorms. Can the cultures of these dorms change their personalities? #naturalexperiment

This is Kakuma Refugee Camp, where most of the champs bossing the Basketball World were brought up. I recorded this video during the game; South Sudan’s FIRST GAME at the The Olympic Games against Puerto Rico. Motherland is proud.

Job alert: A little late to the game, but we're searching for a tenure-track assistant prof in comparative politics. We're particularly interested in scholars who study East Asia, Southeast Asia, and/or South Asia. Details: apply.interfolio.com/151639

Come be my colleague Dartmouth 🌲! We're hiring this fall in comparative politics, with a focus on scholars who study East Asia, Southeast Asia, and/or South Asia. womenalsoknowstuff POCAlsoKnowStuff #PsJMinfo #poliscijobs apply.interfolio.com/151639