Gallya Lahav
· ProfessorVerifiedStony Brook University · Political Science
Active 1991–2026
About
Gallya Lahav is a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Globalization and International Relations academic program at Stony Brook University. She holds graduate degrees in political science from the London School of Economics and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her teaching and research focus on international migration and European integration, with a particular emphasis on comparative political behavior, immigration, refugee politics, European and EU politics, identity politics, extreme-right politics, public opinion, and political culture. Lahav has authored a recent book titled 'Migration, Security, and the 'Liberal' State: the Politics of Immigration Regulation in the United States and Europe' (Cambridge University Press, 2024), which explores the link between migration and national security through media portrayal and discourse, and its impact on public perceptions and policy in the US and Europe. She has contributed extensively to the field through journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes, and her work has appeared in numerous prominent journals. Lahav has served on editorial boards, received prestigious grants and awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, and has been a consultant and expert witness for various international and governmental organizations. She is actively involved in professional associations, serving as co-President of the Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association, and maintains a strong pedagogical presence through teaching courses on comparative politics, migration, and security.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Computer Science
- Public administration
- Environmental resource management
- Natural resource economics
- Law
- Economics
- Psychology
- Biology
- Political economy
- Ecology
- Geography
- Environmental science
Selected publications
Democracy and Security · 2026-02-19
article1st authorCorrespondingImmigration, Security, and the Liberal State
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2024-01-18 · 3 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingContextualizing the regulation of human mobility in a new security framework, this book offers an original perspective on the dominant mode of politics and evolving norms shaping the immigration policies of contemporary liberal states. In doing so, the authors challenge existing paradigms that privilege economic and cultural factors over new security ones in explaining the critical institutional and normative changes in migration management, from the early post-WWII through the post-Cold War era. Drawing on evidence from multiple sources, including media and elite discourse, policy tracking, party manifesto data and public opinion across Europe and the US, the book exposes the restrictive nature of immigration politics and policies when immigration is framed as a security threat, and considers its implications for civil liberties. Informed by a rich breadth of scholarly sub-disciplines, the findings contribute both empirically and theoretically to the literatures on international migration, security and public opinion.
Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd · 2024-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingPerspectives on Politics · 2023-06-01
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International Migration Review · 2022 · 60 citations
- Computer Science
- Natural resource economics
- Geography
Unmitigated climate change will likely produce major problems for human populations worldwide. Although many researchers and policy-makers believe that drought may be an important “push” factor underlying migration in the future, the precise relationship between drought and migration remains unclear. This article models the potential scope of such movements for the emissions policy choices facing all nation-states today. Applying insights from climate science and computational modeling to migration research, we examine the likely surge of drought-induced migration and assess the prospects of different policy scenarios to mitigate involuntary displacement. Using an ensemble of 16 climate models in conjunction with high-resolution geospatial population data and different policy scenarios, we generate drought projections worldwide and estimate the potential for internal and international population movement due to extreme droughts through the remainder of the 21 st century. Our simulations suggest that a potential for drought-induced migration increases by approximately 200 percent under the current international policy scenario (corresponding to the current Paris Agreement targets). In contrast, total migration increases by almost 500 percent, should current international cooperation fail and should unrestricted policies toward greenhouse gas emissions prevail. We argue that despite the continued growth projections of drought-induced migration in all cases, international cooperation on climate change can substantially reduce the global potential for such migration, in contrast to unilateral policy approaches to energy demands. This article highlights the importance of modeling future environmental migrations, in order to manage the pressures and unprecedented policy challenges which are expected to dramatically increase under conditions of unmitigated climate change.
Symposium on Trends and Advances in the Comparative Politics of Immigration: Taking Stock
Polity · 2021 · 1 citations
Senior authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Sociology
- Political Science
Up until the 1980s immigration-related subjects were largely ignored by comparative political scientists. It was only when they were politicized during the 1990s that political science scholarship on these subjects proliferated. The essays in this symposium expand upon the progress comparativists have made in comprehending and explaining the phenomena of mass immigration and immigrant settlement. Specifically, they explore several recent currents within their respective research streams, including issue salience, radical Right political parties, the domestic politics of immigration policy making, and national immigration regimes. All are intellectually indebted to the scholarship of Gary P. Freeman and Martin A. Schain to whom we dedicate this symposium.
Polity · 2021 · 1 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Political Science
- Public administration
Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCornell University Press eBooks · 2019-11-02
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe Global Challenge of the Refugee Exodus
Current History · 2016-01-01 · 7 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThe refugee crises … amount to an emerging global challenge facing almost all industrialized liberal democracies, pitting their humanitarian norms against materialist values.
Frequent coauthors
- 28 shared
Anthony M. Messina
Trinity College
- 12 shared
Virginie Guiraudon
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- 5 shared
Pazit Ben‐Nun Bloom
- 4 shared
Stanley Feldman
- 3 shared
Julie Wronski
University of Mississippi
- 3 shared
Leonie Huddy
- 3 shared
Gizem Arıkan
Trinity College Dublin
- 2 shared
Milton Lodge
Education
Ph.D.
City University of New York
Awards & honors
- SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Student-nominated Teaching award from the SBU College of Art…
- MacArthur Fellowship
- Mellon Foundation award
- National Science Foundation (NSF) award
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