Abigail Fisher Williamson researches and teaches on immigration policy, health policy, urban politics, and civic engagement. Her book Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation (University of Chicago Press, 2018) explains why cities welcome immigrants and how these efforts both promote and restrict incorporation. She is a co-editor of The Politics of New Immigrant Destinations: Transatlantic Perspectives (Temple University Press, 2017). She works with an interdisciplinary team of scholars on the AmeRicans' Conceptions of Health Equity Study (ARCHES), which examines how people form and change their understandings of whose health deserves society's attention and investment. Her research has received funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Ruth Landes Memorial Fund, and Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS).
From 1998-2001, Professor Williamson worked for the Eurasia Foundation in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, ultimately as Associate Country Director for the Foundation’s Tbilisi, Georgia office. From 2003-2005, she served as a Research Associate and then as Associate Director of the Saguaro Seminar for Civic Engagement at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4325 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4697-2895 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/abby-fisher-williamson-776237/ | |
| X/Twitter | https://x.com/AbbyFWilliamson |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Immigrant policy and law
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Either/Mixed
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
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UN Countries
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Trinity College
University, Hartford, United States
Associate Professor
Research
Rethinking flourishing: Critical insights and qualitative perspectives from the U.S. Midwest
| Authors | Sarah S. Willen, Abigail Fisher Williamson, Colleen C. Walsh, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | SSM - Mental Health | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Intergovernmental Policy Feedback and Urban Responses to Immigrants
| Authors | Abigail Fisher Williamson |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | PS: Political Science & Politics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines. By Doris Marie Provine, Monica W. Varsanyi, Paul G. Lewis, and Scott H. Decker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 208p. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.
| Authors | Abigail Fisher Williamson |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Perspectives on Politics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Mechanisms of declining intra-ethnic trust in newly diverse immigrant destinations
| Authors | Abigail Fisher Williamson |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 |
See no Spanish: language, local context, and attitudes toward immigration
| Authors | Daniel J. Hopkins, Van C. Tran, Abigail Fisher Williamson |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Politics, Groups, and Identities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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