RefMig Meets the Author...Dr Lamis Abdelaaty
In this video, Professor Cathryn Costello, PI of the RefMig project, and Dr Derya Ozkul, RefMig postdoctoral researcher interview Professor Lamis Abdelaaty, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University about her new book Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees (OUP, 2021). Based on her APSA award-winning doctoral research, the book makes a ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of the global refugee regime, aiming to explain why states respond differently to different groups of refugees, and in particular why they choose to delegate aspects of their response (including the function of deciding who is a refugee) to UNHCR. The work is global in scope, with particular case studies of Egypt and Turkey, and an in-depth analysis of political debates in Kenya. They discuss her research questions and hypotheses, her research methods and case selection, and the broader implications of her book.
