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Organized Section 43: Best Dissertation Award

Migration and Citizenship Section Award Recipients

Best Dissertation Award
Award for best dissertation on migration and/or citizenship accepted in the previous calendar year.


2016  Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of London
“Trading People, Consolidating Power: Emigration & Authoritarianism in Modern Egypt.” 
2016  Daisy Kim, Johns Hopkins University
“Bargaining Citizenship: Women’s Organizations, the State, and Marriage Migrants in South Korea.” 
2015  Lamis Abdelaaty, University of California, Santa Clara
Selective Sovereignty: Foreign Policy, Ethnic Identity, and the Politics of Asylum 
2013 John O'Keefe, George Washington University
“From Legal Rights to Citizens' Rights and Non-Citizen Penalties: Migrant Influence, Naturalization, and the Growth of National Power over Foreign Migrants in the Early American Republic” Submitted to the History Department at the George Washington University
2013 Honorable Mention
Luicy Pedroza, Freie Universität Berlin
“Citizenship before Nationality: How Democracies Redefine Citizenship by Debating the Extension of Voting Rights to Settled Migrants” Submitted to the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences at Bremen University