Rebecca Hamlin Book Talk

2201 South Gaylord Street,Denver CO 80208

19 October, 2022

Description

Rebecca Hamlin is Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. Since then, her research has focused on law and immigration politics, with a particular interest in migrant categorization and the concept of a refugee. Her published work has examined how the United States and other liberal democracies use administrative agencies and courts to adjudicate migration and citizenship questions, and the political responses to judicial involvement in migration matters. She is the author of two award-winning books: Let Me Be a Refugee (2014, Oxford University Press) and Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move (2021, Stanford University Press). She has also published multiple articles and book chapters on the topics of immigration and refugee law and politics, both in the United States and in comparative perspective.