Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University
About
Lamis Abdelaaty is an assistant professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. Her interests include international relations, human rights and humanitarianism, and asylum and migration. She holds a doctoral degree in politics from Princeton University.
Current Work:
Lamis Abdelaaty's book, Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees (Oxford University Press, 2021), asks why countries open their borders to some refugees while blocking others, and why a number of countries have given the United Nations control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory. This project draws on her doctoral dissertation, which received the Best Dissertation Award from the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the American Philosophical Society, and her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies, International Journal of Human Rights, International Interactions, Political Studies, and Annual Review of Sociology.
Research Area Keyword(s):
refugee, asylum, migration, human rights, humanitarianism
