Multimethods Approaches to Studying the Politics of Migration

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel explores the politics of migration across methodological traditions. With a particular emphasis on refugee and asylum politics, the panelists collectively unpack the conditions shaping decision-making following displacement; the impact of legal status; and government and international responses. Alrababah and co-authors use a panel study of 3,000 Syrian refugees to explore the role of information in shaping return dynamics. Hartman and co-authors use survey data collected in Greece to examine how immigration status shapes decision-making, opportunity and well-being, emphasizing the importance of legal status on various outcomes, including decreasing psychological distress and improving integration. Della-Guardia and Schwartz’s papers each focus on responses to displacement by governments and international actors. While Schwartz and co-authors develop a typology of state responses to displacement, Della Guardia draws on ethnographic research from Cameroon to examine the hierarchies of care that underpin displacement responses.

Sub Unit

• Division 11: Comparative Politics

Individual Presentations

• Unveiling the Dynamics of Refugee Return: A Panel Study of Return Behavior - Ala Alrababah, Bocconi University

• Asylum Granted: The Social and Economic Effects of Attaining Refugee Status - Alexandra Hartman, UCL

• What They Say vs. What They Do: Government Responses to Displacement - Stephanie Schwartz, The London School of Economics and Political Science

• Humanitarian Priorities and Inequalities of Displacement Responses - Anne Della Guardia, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Jordan’s Politics through Border Closure: A Twist to ‘Security Threats’ - Emma Empociello, Sciences Po Bordeaux

Chair

• Milli Lake London School of Economics

Discussant

• Claire Leslie Adida UCSD