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Migration and Citizenship (Section 43)

The purpose of this section is to bring together political scientists working on issues of migration and citizenship, promote teaching and research in the field, and encourage communication among political scientists and scholars of migration and citizenship in related disciplines, including policy and other professionals, domestically and internationally.

Founded: 2012
Website: connect.apsanet.org/s43/ 

Social: @MigCitizenAPSA
Newsletter: Migration and Citizenship Newsletter

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Section Awards

Section awards are presented during the APSA annual meeting awards ceremony. To learn more about any award listed, contact the award committee chair for the award.

All section 43. Migration and Citizenship awards to-date »

 

Best Book Award

Award given to the best book on migration and/or citizenship published in calendar year 2024. Edited volumes are not eligible. Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; if a publisher submits the nomination, the author(s) must be a section member. Nomination instructions: Please send a copy of the nominated book to each committee member at the below addresses:  Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2025

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email

Erik Bleich (Chair)

 Middlebury University ebleich@middlebury.edu
Amy Liu University of Texas at Austin amy.liu@austin.utexas.edu
Ana Isabel Lopez Garcia Maastricht Univeristy  a.lopezgarcia@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Best Article Award

Best article on migration and/or citizenship published (and printed) in 2024. Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; and author(s) must be a section member. Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the article to each committee member. Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2025

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email

Jill Gross (Chair)

 Hunter College, SUNY jill.s.gross@hunter.cuny.edu
Ron Hayduk San Francisco State University rhayduk@sfsu.edu
Michael Paarlberg Virginia Commonwealth University  mapaarlberg@vcu.edu

Best Dissertation Award

Best dissertation on migration and/or citizenship accepted in 2024. Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the dissertation, a dissertation abstract, and an electronic letter of recommendation from the nominee’s advisor to each of the committee members below. Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2025

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email

Marc Helbling (Chair)

 Mannheim University helbling@uni-mannheim.de   
Erica Dobbs Pomona College erica.dobbs@pomona.edu
Prema Kurien Syracuse University pkurien@syr.edu

 

Best Graduate Paper Award

Best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented by a graduate student at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles (either as part of a panel or poster session). Papers co-authored with faculty are not eligible. Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; and author(s) must be a section member. Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the article to each committee member. Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2025

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email
Ruxandra Paul (Chair) Amherst College rpaul@amherst.edu
Rithika Kumar Bowdoin College a.saavedra@bowdoin.edu
Yi-Chun Chien Dartmouth College  Yang-Yang.Zhou@dartmouth.edu

 

Emerging Scholar Award

The goal of 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. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize. Send an electronic nomination letter to the award committee chair. All materials are due by March 1st.

Eligibility criteria:

  • Recipients need to be current members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship. 
  • Recipients must have their PhD degree conferred within the past eight calendar years (e.g., for the award to be awarded in 2025, recipients can have received their PhDs no earlier than 2017) or hold a pre-tenure status.
  • Nominations need to be accompanied by at least one nomination letter, written by the nominee and/or a scholar other than the nominee, along with supporting documents that will allow the award committee to learn of the nominee’s outstanding contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life, including but not limited to a CV, writing sample(s) (not exceeding 30 pages total), and evidence of teaching excellence (not exceeding 30 pages total).

Nomination Instructions: Please send all material in a single PDF document to the award committee chair. In the case of self-nomination, any additional letters should be sent directly to the award committee.

Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2025

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email
Deborah Schildkraut (Chair) Tufts University deborah.schildkraut@tufts.edu
Ayelet Shachar University of Toronto ayelet.shachar@utoronto.ca
Dan Tichenor University of Oregon  tichenor@uoregon.edu

 

Career Achievement Award

The goal of 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. Send two electronic nomination letters to the award committee chair. All materials are due by March 1st.

Eligibility criteria:

  • Recipients need to be current members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship. 
  • Nominations need to be accompanied by at least two nomination letters, which explain and illustrate the nominee’s outstanding contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life in their scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship. 

Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2025

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email
Abigail Fisher Williamson (Chair) Trinity College abigail.williamson@trincoll.edu
Antje Ellerman University of British Columbia antje.ellermann@ubc.ca
Willem Maas York University  maas@yorku.ca