I think about this a lot when I’m trying to feed my baby. I have access to nutritious food and clean water, and yet I still need to supplement with formula. My heart goes out to these mothers.

📣 New episode! What happens when there are multiple rules of law - when state law overlaps with religious and customary law? What does this mean for marriages, child custody, and even murder? Egor Lazarev discusses his research on postwar Chechnya: www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/epi...

📢 New episode! Why do political parties use violence to achieve their goals in some political contexts but not in others? @niloufersiddiqui.bsky.social talks with us about her award-winning new book on violence as electoral strategy in Pakistan. www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/episode-39

Today, I am happy to present a new working paper at Stanford's CP seminar, "Refugee-Hosting and Electoral Response: Challenging the Generalizability of the Backlash Hypothesis" (with @yangyangzhou.bsky.social, Naijia Liu, and Shuning Ge). Link to paper: osf.io/preprints/os...

The CMS International Art Competition 2024-25 is now open! 🌍🎨 Visual artists worldwide are invited to submit works exploring this year’s theme, African Diasporas, Migrations, and Mobilities, by February 17, 2025. Learn more: migration.ubc.ca/programs-ini...

📢 New episode! What happens when criminal gangs partner with politicians to influence elections? @jessietrudeau.bsky.social shares with us her research in #Brazil 🇧🇷 and discusses the implications of "machine gun politics" for democracy. www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/epi...

I had the best time catching up with my friend @ricarthuguet.bsky.social! We learn about what happens when the *sorting hat* at Makerere University sorts incoming students randomly into their dorms. Can the cultures of these dorms change their personalities? #naturalexperiment

New Open Access article @The_JOP : www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... In "Left Out," @ProfTortuga, @MigrationNerd, and I find in Colombia that misperceptions about migrants' political ideology (that they are more leftist than they actually are) can drive opposition to migrant reception.

Does sustained contact with migrants change locals' attitudes toward them in wartime? In a new AJPS article, Yang-Yang Zhou & me conduct a field experiment in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and find no evidence that locals' attitudes changed in any way Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...