2017: Dr. Yossi Harpaz

17 January 2018

His dissertation entitled “Compensatory Citizenship: A Comparative Study of Dual Nationality in Serbia, Mexico and Israel”, was defended at Princeton University in September 2016. The award ceremony will took place during the IMISCOE conference in Rotterdam, on Wednesday June 28th 2017.

Dr. Harpaz’s thesis is an extremely original piece of work which makes a highly innovative shift from the dominant focus on dual citizenship. According to the author, since the 1990’s there has been a transformation of the meaning of citizenship “from an ascribed, rigid category that one is born into and has little prospect of changing, into a flexible status that one may pick and choose – or even strategize to maximize utility and compete with other actors.” In other words, as one reviewer puts it, citizenship has been commodified. But this occurs in a context in which citizenship is globally stratified which alters the conceptual concerns to global inequality, leading to a consideration of the comparative value of different citizenships. The central notion of asymmetric forms of citizenship emerges from the observed value of different citizenships and therefore the desirability of acquiring ‘compensatory citizenship’ -a concept the author develops- for those whose citizenship is of limited global value but at the same time have a chance of accessing more valuable forms of citizenship. Once set out, the author pursues these ideas in his thesis through an original combination of methods (large scale statistical/demographic and small scale, detailed qualitative political) to elucidate both the overall impact of compensatory citizenship and explanations for the specific instances in which it is found. The three empirical case studies are well chosen and are richly supported based on an impressive body of original research. The reviewers are unanimous in considering that this thesis is both theoretically and methodologically innovative and is a work of high quality that deserves recognition at the highest level.

Winners

2020: Dr. Gerhild Perl

20 July 2020
The winner of the 2020 IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Gerhild Perl. Her dissertation, entitled: "Traces of death. Exploring affective responsiveness across the Spanish- Moroccan Sea" was defended on 28 February, 2019.

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2019: Dr. Kristina Bakkær Simonsen

05 June 2019
The winner of the 2019 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Kristina Bakkær Simonsen. Her dissertation entitled: “Do They Belong? Host National Boundary Drawing and Immigrants’ Identificational Integration” was defended at Aarhus University...

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2018: Dr. Apostolos Andrikopoulos

30 May 2018
The winner of the 2018 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Apostolos Andrikopoulos. His dissertation entitled “Argonauts of West Africa: Migration, Citizenship and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe", was defended at the University of...

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2017: Dr. Yossi Harpaz

17 January 2018
His dissertation entitled “Compensatory Citizenship: A Comparative Study of Dual Nationality in Serbia, Mexico and Israel”, was defended at Princeton University in September 2016. The award ceremony will took place during the IMISCOE conference in...

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2016: Dr. Milena Belloni

19 May 2016
Milena Belloni's dissertation entitled ‘Cosmologies of destinations: roots and routes of Eritrean forced migration toward Europe’, was defended at Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Trento in November 2015. The award ceremony took place...

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