Laura is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Government, working under the supervision of Dr. Eiko Thielemann. Her research analyses the relationship between refugee resettlement, impure public goods, and responsibility sharing. Laura has a Master of Arts from the College of Europe and an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto.
Thesis
Refugee Resettlement and Impure Public Goods: Evidence from Canada, the United States, and the European Union
I analyse cross-national variations in participation in refugee resettlement and in the size of resettlement quotas. I conceptualise resettlement as a mechanism through which countries contribute to humanitarian protection as an impure public good. However, I argue that this characteristic creates incentives for free-riding and suboptimal provision. On that basis, I examine how non-governmental organisations can encourage participation and help sustain resettlement quotas through domestic responsibility sharing programmes and advocacy. To achieve this, I adopt a mixed methods approach that combines logistic regression and semi-structured interviews with senior government officials and non-governmental representatives in North America and Europe.
Supervisor: Dr Eiko Thielemann|
Research interests
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The determinants of national participation in refugee resettlement and resettlement quotas or targets
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The use of public-private partnerships and the impact of interest representation in humanitarian protection
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The diffusion of norms and the development and implementation of resettlement programmes in Africa and Latin America
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The differences between media portrayals of asylum seekers and representations of resettled refugees
Publications
Robbins-Wright, Laura, ‘The Political Economy of Managed Migration: Nonstate Actors, Europeanization, and the Politics of Designing Migration Policies by Georg Menz’, Journal of Contemporary European Research, 8 (2012): 155-158.
Contact
Twitter: @lrobbinswright
|Personal website: personal.lse.ac.uk/robbinsw|
Email: L.I.Robbins-Wright@lse.ac.uk|