Rebecca Hamlin

 

Photographer: 
Lizzie Buehler
Courtesy of Rebecca Hamlin
hamlinr@grinnell.edu
Campus Phone: 
3853
Assistant Professor of Political Science
On-Campus Address: 
Carnegie 309
Education / Degrees: 
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California - Berkeley, 2009
M.A., Political Science, University of California - Berkeley, 2003
B.A., University of Chicago, 2000
Publications: 
TitleURLSynopsis
“Symbolic Politics and Policy Feedback: The United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees and American Refugee Policy in the Cold War”with Philip E. Wolgin. International Migration Review - Volume 46, Number 3: 586-624, Fall 2012.
“International Law and Administrative Insulation: A Comparison of Refugee Status Determination Regimes in the United States, Canada, and Australia.”Law and Social Inquiry. Volume 37, Issue 4: 933–968, Fall 2012.
“Illegal Refugees: Competing Policy Ideas and the Rise of the Regime of Deterrence in American Asylum Politics.”Refugee Survey Quarterly- Volume 31, Number 2: 33-53, Summer 2012
“Immigrants At Work: Labor Unions and Non-Citizen Members”in Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement. S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad, editors. Russell Sage Foundation, New York: NY, 2008.
Courses Taught: 
Pol 101 - Introduction to Political Science
Pol 219 - Constitutional Law of the United States
Pol 222 - The Politics of American Immigration
Pol 319 - Seminar in Advanced Constitution Law
Primary Academic Interest: 
Public Law (including American Constitutional law, administrative law, legal theory, and comparative law)
Other Academic Interests: 
Migration and Citizenship (including contemporary American immigration politics, American migration history, refugee and asylum policy, multiculturalism and citizenship, rights of non-citizens, non-citizens and democratic theory)

I am finishing my book manuscript, entitled:  Let Me Be a Refugee: Asylum Seekers, International Law, and Administrative Justice.  The book is a comparison of the refugee status determination regimes in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

 

I am also in the beginning stages of a new project, tentatively entitled: “Immigrants in Court: Non-Citizens’ Rights and Judicial Power in Comparative Perspective.”  This project examines the effect of mass migration on the growing power of courts around the world.