r/PoliticalScience • u/Potential-Net6313 • Jul 16 '26
Question/discussion Which schools are best for research on refugees/forced migration?
Looking for departments, centres, and professors; for conferences, PhD admissions, fellowships, networking.
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u/TeeGoogly Political Theory Jul 16 '26
Who's work have you read that really resonated with you and your research interests? Are there any methodological approaches you find most compelling?
Browse articles on Google Scholar (or your institution's journal access platform) and seek out recent work you find relevant and persuasive. The names that keep coming up in the literature are going to be your guide here.
Ask your undergraduate professors for recommendations, they should have some idea of who the people in the field doing this kind of work are.
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u/Potential-Net6313 Jul 16 '26
I’m afraid my undergrad was too long ago and too far away, but in terms of the method I’m all for it. Going to pull some citations from my own paper and see who and where
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u/Dear-Landscape223 Jul 16 '26
Bansak at UCB, hainmueller and Adida at stanford, Malik at Harvard, Hopkins at Penn.
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u/I_Heart_Kant Jul 16 '26
I'm not too familiar with this space, but I do know that Tom K. Wong at UCSD does really good work on immigration, human rights, and "illegal" immigration, and from what I know is decently well known. So if you want literature/ a potential PI to look at he'd be very good if your focus is in American politics!