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Best Article Award
Best Book Award
Best Chapter Award
Best Dissertation Award
Best Paper Award
Best Graduate Paper Award

Best Article Award

Award for best article on migration and/or citizenship published (i.e., printed) in the previous calendar year.

2025	Marc Helbling, University of Mannheim Rahsaan Maxwell, New York University Richard Traunmüller, University of Mannheim “Numbers, selectivity, and rights: the conditional nature of immigration policy preferences.” Comparative Political Studies 57(2): 254-286. 2024.
2024	Amir Abdul Reda, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University Nicholas A. R. Fraser, Toronto Metropolitan University Ahmed Khattab, Georgetown University “Does Social Mobility Matter? The Kafala System and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment.” Political Studies Review 21(4): 801-824, 2023.
2023	Elizabeth Iams Wellman, Williams College “The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950-2020).” Comparative Political Studies, 2022.
2023	Nathan Allen, St Francis Xavier University “The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950-2020).” Comparative Political Studies, 2022.
2023	Benjamin Nyblade, University of California, Los Angeles “The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950-2020).” Comparative Political Studies, 2022.
2022	Yang-Yang Zhou, University of British Columbia “Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis,” American Political Science Review (2021) 115(4): 1175-1196.
2022	Andrew Shaver, University of California, Merced “Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis,” American Political Science Review (2021) 115(4): 1175-1196.
2021	Aala Abdelgadir, Stanford University “Political Secularism and Muslim Integration in the West: Assessing the Effects of the French Headscarf Ban.” American Political Science Review,2020, 114(3):707-723.
2021	Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University “Political Secularism and Muslim Integration in the West: Assessing the Effects of the French Headscarf Ban.” American Political Science Review,2020, 114(3):707-723.
2021	Rafaela M. Dancygier, Princeton University “The Evolution of the Immigration Debate: Evidence from a New Data Set of Party Positions Over the Last Half-Century.” Comparative Political Studies, 2020, 53(5): 734–774.
2021	Yotam Margalit, Tel Aviv University  “The Evolution of the Immigration Debate: Evidence from a New Data Set of Party Positions Over the Last Half-Century.” Comparative Political Studies, 2020, 53(5): 734–774.
2019	Jeffrey D. Pugh, University of Massachusetts, Boston “Negotiating Identity and Belonging through the Invisibility Bargain: Colombian Forced Migrants in Ecuador.” International Migration Review 52:4 (2018): 978-1010.
2018	Alex Street, Carroll College “Political Effects of Having Undocumented Parents.” Political Research Quarterly 70(4): 818–832.
2018	Chris Zepeda-Millán, University of California, Berkeley “Political Effects of Having Undocumented Parents.” Political Research Quarterly 70(4): 818–832.
2018	Michael Jones-Correa, University of Pennsylvania “Political Effects of Having Undocumented Parents.” Political Research Quarterly 70(4): 818–832.
2017	Saskia Bonjour, University of Amsterdam “Speaking of Rights: The Influence of Law and Courts on the Making of Family Migration Policies in Germany.” Law & Policy 38(4): 328-348.
2017	Honorable Mention Marc Helbling, University of Bamberg        “How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitutes Towards Muslim Immigrants.” Comparative Political Studies 49(3): 391-424.
2017	Honorable Mention Richard Traunmuller, University of Mannheim “How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitutes Towards Muslim Immigrants.” Comparative Political Studies 49(3): 391-424.
2017	Honorable Mention          Floris Peters, Maastricht University           “The Ecology of Immigrant Naturalization: a Life Course Approach in the Context of Institutional Conditions.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42(3):359-381.
2017	Honorable Mention Maarten Vink, Maastricht University “The Ecology of Immigrant Naturalization: a Life Course Approach in the Context of Institutional Conditions.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42(3):359-381.
2017	Honorable Mention  Hans Schmeets, Maastricht University “The Ecology of Immigrant Naturalization: a Life Course Approach in the Context of Institutional Conditions.” Journal of Ethnic and   Migration Studies 42(3):359-381.
2016	Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine “Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizenship and Integration Policy: Past Lessons and New Approaches.” Comparative Political Studies, 48, 2015
2015	Rafaela Dancygier, Princeton University “Electoral Rules or Electoral Leverage? Explaining Muslim Representation in England” World Politics, 2014
2014	Antje Ellermann, University of British Columbia “When Can Liberal States Avoid Unwanted Immigration? Self-Limited Sovereignty and Guest Worker Recruitment in Switzerland and Germany.” World Politics 65: July 13, 2013, 491-538.
2013	Matthew Wright, American University Is There a Trade-off between Multiculturalism and Socio-Political Integration? Policy Regimes and Immigrant Incorporation in Comparative Perspective (2012: Perspectives on Politics 10(1): 77-95)
2013	Irene Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley Is There a Trade-off between Multiculturalism and Socio-Political Integration? Policy Regimes and Immigrant Incorporation in Comparative Perspective (2012:Perspectives on Politics 10(1): 77-95)
2013	Honorable Mention Sara Goodman, University of California, Irvine Fortifying Citizenship: Policy Strategies for Civic Integration in Western Europe (2012: World Politics 64(4): 659-698)
2013	Honorable Mention Rebecca Hamlin, Grinnell College International Law and Administrative Insulation: A Comparison of Refugee Status Determination Regimes in the United States, Canada, and Australia (2012: Law and Social Inquiry 37(4): 933-968)

Best Book Award

Best Book Award for the best book on Migration and/or Citizenship published in the previous year.

2025	Catherine De Vries, Bocconi University David Doyle, University of Oxford Hector Solaz, Bocconi University Katerina Tertytchnaya, University of Oxford Money Flows: The Political Consequences of Migrant Remittances. Oxford University Press, 2024.
2024	Lachlan McNamee, Monash University Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop. Princeton University Press, 2023.
2024	Olukunle P. Owolabi, Villanova University Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South. Oxford University Press, 2023.
2023	Abel Escribà-Folch, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Migration and Democracies: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships. Princeton University Press, 2022.
2023	Covadonga Meseguer, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE-CIHS) Migration and Democracies: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships. Princeton University Press, 2022.
2023	Joseph Wright, Pennsylvania State University Migration and Democracies: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships. Princeton University Press, 2022.
2023	Rina Agarwala, Johns Hopkins University The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration. Oxford University Press, 2022.
2022	Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty, Syracuse University Discrimination and Delegation, Oxford University Press, 2021.
2021	Allan Colbern, Arizona State University Citizenship Re-Imagined. A New Framework for State Rights in the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2021	S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside Citizenship Re-Imagined. A New Framework for State Rights in the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2021	Lauren Duquette-Rury, Wayne State University Exit and Voice. The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2019	Elizabeth Cohen, Syracuse University The Political Value of Time. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
2018	Margaret E. Peters, University of California, Los Angeles Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization. Princeton University Press, 2017.
2017	Els de Graauw, Baruch College, City University of New York  Making Immigrant Rights Real: Non-Profits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2016).
2017	Feliz Garip, Cornell University On The Move:  Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2016).
2016	Leila Kawar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Contesting Immigration Policy in Court: Legal Activism and Its Radiating Effects in the United States and France. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
2015	David Scott Fitzgerald, University of California, San Diego Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas . Harvard University Press, 2014.
2015	David Cook-Martin, University of California, San Diego Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas. Harvard University Press, 2014.
2015	Honorable Mention Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2014
2015	Honorable Mention Rebecca Hamlin, Grinnell College Let Me Be a Refugee: Administrative Justice and the Politics of Asylum in the United States, Canada, and Australia . Oxford University Press, 2014
2014	Charles Taber, SUNY, Stony Brook University The Rationalizing Voter. Cambridge University Press
2014	Martin Ruhs, Oxford University The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration. Princeton University Press
2014	2014 Honorable Mention Natalie Masuoka, Tufts University The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration. University of Chicago Press
2014	Honorable Mention Jane Junn, University of Southern California The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration. University of Chicago Press
2014	Honorable Mention Andrea Voyer, Pace University Strangers and Neighbors: Multiculturalism, Conflict, and Community in America. Cambridge University Press
2013	Jonathan Laurence, Boston College “The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims” (Princeton University Press 2012)
2013	Diane Sainsbury, Stockholm University Welfare States and Immigrant Rights: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012)

Best Chapter Award

Award for best chapter on migration and/or citizenship published (i.e., printed) in the previous calendar year.

2018	Jacqueline Stevens, Northwestern University “The Alien Who is a Citizen,” In Citizenship in Question: Evidentiary Birthright Statelessness, B.N. Lawrence and J. Stevens. Duke University Press.
2017	Floris Peters Maastricht University Naturalization and the Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants: a Life-Course Perspective. 2016. In Handbook on Migration and Social Policy, edited by  G. P. Freeman and N. Mirilovic, 362-376. Northampton: Edward Elgar.
2017	Maarten Vink, Maastricht University Naturalization and the Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants: a Life-Course Perspective. 2016. In Handbook on Migration and Social Policy, edited by  G. P. Freeman and N. Mirilovic, 362-376. Northampton: Edward Elgar.
2015	David Abraham, University of Miami School of Law “Law and Migration: Many Constants, Few Changes” Routledge, 2014.
2014	Luis Plascencia, Arizona State University, West Campus “Attrition through Enforcement and the Elimination of a ‘Dangerous Class.” Latino Politics and Arizona’s Immigration Law SB1070, ed. Lisa Magaña and Erik Lee. New York: Springer.
2013	Ayelet Shachar, University of Toronto “Citizenship” pp. 1002-1019 in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, edited by Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajó. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Best Dissertation Award

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

2025	Tauhid S. Bin Kashem, University of California, Irvine “Protection and Violence at the Borders of the Refugee Regime: International Regime Complexity and Refugee Protection in South and Southeast Asia.”
2024	Dr. Naiara Rodriguez-Peña, University of Kent “Emigration from ‘Destination’: The Unfulfilled Migration Aspirations of the Precariat in the ‘Global North’.”
2023	Laura Cleton, Maastricht University “Deporting Children: Policy Framing, Legitimation and Intersectional Boundary Work.” University of Antwerp.
2023	Ugur Altundal, Loyola University Maryland “The Right to Travel: Toward an Ethics of Short-Term Mobility.” Syracuse University.
2023	Hajer Al-Faham, University of Pennsylvania “Contingent Citizenship: Muslims in America.” University of Pennsylvania.
2022	Victoria Finn, European University Institute “Migrant Rights, Voting, and Resocialization: Suffrage in Chile and Ecuador, 1925–2020,” Ph.D., 2021, Leiden University and Universidad Diego Portales.
2021	Elif Naz Kayran, Institut De Hautes Études Internationales et Du Developpement “Political Responses and Electoral Behaviour at Times of Socioeconomic Risk Inequalities and Immigration.”
2019	Stephanie Schwartz, Columbia University “Homeward Bound: Return Migration and Local Conflict after Civil War.”
2018	Kelsey Norman, University of California, Irvine Reluctant Reception: Understanding Migration and Refugee Policy in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
2018	Volha Charnysh, Harvard University “Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post WWII Displacement in Poland.”
2017	Adrian J. Shin, University of Michigan “Primary Resources, Secondary Labor: Natural Resources and Immigration Policy around the World.”
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

Best Paper Award

Award for best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented at the previous APSA annual meeting (either as part of a panel or poster session).

2019	Mathilde Emeriau, Stanford University “Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office.”
2018	Adeline Lo, Princeton University “Engendering Empathy, Begetting Backlash: American Attitudes towards Syrian Refugees.”
2018	Melina Platas, New York University Abu Dhabi “Engendering Empathy, Begetting Backlash: American Attitudes towards Syrian Refugees.”
2018	Claire L. Adida, University of California, San Diego “Engendering Empathy, Begetting Backlash: American Attitudes towards Syrian Refugees.”
2017	Charlotte Cavaille, Georgetown University “Understanding the Determinants of Welfare Chauvinism: the Role of Resource Competition.”
2017	Jeremy Ferwerda, Dartmouth University “Understanding the Determinants of Welfare Chauvinism: the Role of Resource Competition.”
2016	Antje Ellermann, University of British Columbia “Race, Gender, Class, Disability, and the Ethics of Immigrant Selection.”
2016	Agustin Goenaga Orrego, Lund University “Race, Gender, Class, Disability, and the Ethics of Immigrant Selection.”
2015	Leila Kawar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Bringing Immigration to the Law: Immigrant Rights, Legal Activism, and the Enactment of Adversarial Legalism”

Best Graduate Paper Award

Award for best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented by a graduate student at the previous APSA annual meeting (either as part of a panel or poster session).

2025	Deepika Padmanabhan, Yale University “Speaking to the State: Everyday Language Imposition as Nation-Building Strategy in Southern India.”
2024	Jeyhun Alizade, WZB Berlin Social Secience Center “The Electoral Politics of Immigration and Crime.”
2023	Rithika Kumar, University of Pennsylvania “Left Behind or Left Ahead? Implications of Male Migration on Female Political Engagement”
2022	Samuel D. Schmidt, University of Lecerne “Open Borders versus Inclusive Citizenship? Distinct and Common Logics in Immigration and Membership Politics,” Paper presented at the 2021 APSA Meeting.
2021	Aala Abdelgadir, Stanford University “The Dynamics of Refugee Return: Syrian Refugees and Their Migration Intentions.”

Emerging Scholar Award

This award is to recognize and celebrate an outstanding scholar who is within 8 years from the year of their PhD or holds a pre-tenure status and whose scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship has made a significant contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life.

2025	Katharina Natter, University of Leiden
2024	Ayca Arkilic, University of Wellington

Career Achievement Award

This award is to recognize and celebrate career achievement through outstanding scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship that has advanced the understanding of migration and/or citizenship in political life.

2025	Doris Marie Provine, Arizona State University Joseph Carens, University of Toronto
2024	Ayelet Shachar, University of California, Berkeley
2024	Wayne A. Cornelius, University of California, San Diego