Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 2019
  • M.S., University of Oxford (United Kingdom) 2015
  • B.A., University of Virginia 2009
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Visiting Research Scholar in the Duke Center for International Development, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2021
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • NOV 10, 2022

    'Some Places Will Not Be Livable'
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Rural Transformation and the Capability to Stay awarded by Social Science Research Council 2022 - 2023
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Schewel, K. “Aspiring for Change: Ethiopian Women's Labor Migration to the Middle East.” Social Forces 100, no. 4 (June 1, 2022): 1619–41. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soab051.
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    • Schewel, K., and S. Fransen. “Who prefers to stay? voluntary immobility among youth in Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48, no. 19 (January 1, 2022): 4457–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2092085.
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    • Schewel, K., and L. B. Asmamaw. “Migration and development in Ethiopia: Exploring the mechanisms behind an emerging mobility transition.” Migration Studies 9, no. 4 (December 1, 2021): 1673–1707. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnab036.
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    • Schewel, K. “Understanding Immobility: Moving Beyond the Mobility Bias in Migration Studies.” International Migration Review 54, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 328–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918319831952.
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    • Schewel, Kerilyn, and Sonja Fransen. “Formal Education and Migration Aspirations in Ethiopia.” Population and Development Review 44, no. 3 (September 2018): 555–87. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12159.
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    • Carling, J., and K. Schewel. “Revisiting aspiration and ability in international migration.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44, no. 6 (April 26, 2018): 945–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1384146.
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    • Wylie, Scott A., Daniel O. Claassen, Hilde M. Huizenga, Kerilyn D. Schewel, K Richard Ridderinkhof, Theodore R. Bashore, and Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg. “Dopamine agonists and the suppression of impulsive motor actions in Parkinson disease.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24, no. 8 (August 2012): 1709–24. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00241.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • PUBPOL 790: Special Topics in International Development Policy 2023

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