2016: Ali Chaudhary

10 July 2018

The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award was awarded to Ali Chaudhary at the 13th Annual IMISCOE Conference, held in Prague on 30 June-2 July 2016 for his paper entitled:  'Voting "Here" and "There": Interrogating Immigrant Political Integration and Transnational Political Remittances'.

'Voting "Here" and "There": Interrogating Immigrant Political Integration and Transnational Political Remittances' explores why some migrants vote in their countries of destination while others vote in the elections of their origin countries.

The award is presented in honour of the founding father of IMISCOE, is an annual award for the best paper submitted to and presented at the IMISCOE annual conference, and sponsored by Comparative Migration Studies. This is the second time the award has been given to a paper from IMI: in 2014 the inaugural prize was awarded to Marie-Laurence Flahaux and Hein de Haas.
A version of the winning paper is published as an IMI working paper.
Read more about Ali's current research on the TRANSMIC project, which seeks to contribute to the understanding of the concept of transnational migration.

Ali Chaudhary is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His research interests lie at the intersection of international migration, political sociology, and organization studies.

He writes and teaches about nonprofit organizations, immigrant politics, and ethnic entrepreneurship. I've published research on immigrants' transnational electoral politics in Europe, Pakistani immigrant nonprofits, and the intersection of race and immigration within U.S. self-employment.

Winners

2016: Ali Chaudhary

10 July 2018
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award was awarded to Ali Chaudhary at the 13th Annual IMISCOE Conference, held in Prague on 30 June-2 July 2016 for his paper entitled: 'Voting "Here" and "There": Interrogating Immigrant Political Integration and...

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2014: Marie-Laurence Flahaux and Hein de Haas

10 July 2018
The first Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award has been awarded to Marie-Laurence Flahaux and Hein de Haas for their paper “Migration from, to and within Africa: the role of development and states.”

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2015: James Laurence Tariq

10 July 2018
The researcher from the University of Manchester received the award for his paper “When Numbers Count: Community Ethnic Composition, Prejudice, and the Moderating Role of Inter-Ethnic Segregation for the Contact and Threat Hypotheses.”

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2018: Sarah Nimführ and Buba Sesay

10 July 2018
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award 2018 has been awarded to Sarah Nimführ and Buba Sesay for their paper entitled: “Lost in Limbo? Moving Contours and Practices of Settlements of Non-Deportable Refugees in the Mediterranean Area.”

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2017: René Kreichauf

01 September 2017
The winner was René Kreichauf's paper, ‘From Forced Migration to Forced Arrival: The Campisation of Refugee Accommodation Centres in European Cities’.

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