Prof. Lamis Abdelaaty, PhD

Lamis Abdelaaty is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on refugees in international relations. Her book, Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees (Oxford University Press, 2021), asks why countries open their borders to some refugees while blocking others, and why a number of countries have given the United Nations control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory. Abdelaaty's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the American Philosophical Society, and her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Annual Review of Sociology, International Interactions, International Journal of Human Rights, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies, and Political Studies. She holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University.