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
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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

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:

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

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. 🤯

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!

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.
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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 (@CGDev)

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

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.

I was so excited to do this Scope Conditions Podcast interview with Jae Yeon Kim to learn more about my own community of Asian-Americans through the lens of 3 Chinatowns (SF, Seattle, Vancouver).

Is there solidarity within this huge umbrella racial category? And if so, when?

Decades’ worth of discrimination studies collected by researchers at the The University of Chicago and shared with Vox, spotlight how pervasive systemic racism is for Black Americans. vox.com/race/23739082/…

Our Boundaries, Membership & Belonging program members met in Edinburgh last month! The meeting focused on boundaries and membership in the European context and how to build more inclusive nationalisms.

Ben Nyblade, Nathan Allen, and I are deeply honored our Comparative Political Studies article introducing the EVRR Dataset (links below) has received the 2023 Best Article Award by APSA Mig & Citzp (@migcitizenapsa.bsky.social). Many thanks to Audie Klotz Phil Triadafilopoulos & Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱. 638 downloads of EVRR in 11 months!

New paper forthcoming at Journal of Politics @[email protected] with Niloufer Siddiqui on in-person survey methodology and the drivers of ethnic politics. 1/

This fall, I'm excited to be joining @Dartmouth Gov & the Globalization Cluster as an Assistant Prof!
I'm so grateful to UBC Political Science and the Harvard Academy. I couldn't have asked for better communities to start my career. (And I plan to keep hosting Scope Conditions Podcast 😊.)

🚨Job🚨 Come work with me, @graemedblair & Nahomi Ichino as EGAP & C-Dem pre or postdoc fellow. Among other things, you'll help to improve the accessibility of methods for the design and analysis of randomized trials. More info: tinyurl.com/3x43vzcr

The 2023 World Bank Research World Development Report is all about migration!

With these giants in the field of immigration, we wrote a background paper to challenge the notion that immigrant integration requires shrinking 'cultural distances.'

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CIFAR

Big thanks to Weatherhead Center for International Affairs for this opportunity to share this research in collab w/ Shuning.Ge & @guygrossman!
I've really enjoyed being a part of this community.