Rebecca Hamlin

 

Photographer: 
Lizzie Buehler
Courtesy of Rebecca Hamlin
hamlinr@grinnell.edu
Campus Phone: 
3853
Unit (Dept., Office, Center, etc.): 
Political Science
Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies
Position: 
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. Forthcoming, 2012.
“International Law and Administrative Insulation: A Comparison of Refugee Status Determination Regimes in the United States, Canada, and Australia.”Law and Social Inquiry. Forthcoming, 2012.
“Illegal Refugees: Competing Policy Ideas and the Rise of the Regime of Deterrence in American Asylum Politics.”Refugee Survey Quarterly. Forthcoming, 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.