Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱
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Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱
@yangyangzhou.bsky.social
Assistant prof at Dartmouth studying migration, conflict, identity | co-host @scopeconditions.bsky.social | she/her

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July 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I think about this a lot when I’m trying to feed my baby. I have access to nutritious food and clean water, and yet I still need to supplement with formula. My heart goes out to these mothers.
July 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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📣 New episode!

What happens when there are multiple rules of law - when state law overlaps with religious and customary law? What does this mean for marriages, child custody, and even murder?

Egor Lazarev discusses his research on postwar Chechnya:

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EPISODE 3.10: Rules of Law, with Egor Lazarev — Scope Conditions Podcast
Political analysts are thinking a lot these days about the rule of law: where it comes from, what sustains it, how it can break down. Those are hard enough questions in themselves. And, yet — they sim...
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June 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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📢 New episode!

Why do political parties use violence to achieve their goals in some political contexts but not in others?

@niloufersiddiqui.bsky.social talks with us about her award-winning new book on violence as electoral strategy in Pakistan.

www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/episode-39
February 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Today, I am happy to present a new working paper at Stanford's CP seminar, "Refugee-Hosting and Electoral Response: Challenging the Generalizability of the Backlash Hypothesis" (with @yangyangzhou.bsky.social, Naijia Liu, and Shuning Ge). Link to paper: osf.io/preprints/os...
January 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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The CMS International Art Competition 2024-25 is now open! 🌍🎨

Visual artists worldwide are invited to submit works exploring this year’s theme, African Diasporas, Migrations, and Mobilities, by February 17, 2025.

Learn more: migration.ubc.ca/programs-ini...
November 29, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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📢 New episode!

What happens when criminal gangs partner with politicians to influence elections?

@jessietrudeau.bsky.social shares with us her research in #Brazil 🇧🇷 and discusses the implications of "machine gun politics" for democracy.

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September 20, 2024 at 8:08 PM
I had the best time catching up with my friend
@ricarthuguet.bsky.social!

We learn about what happens when the *sorting hat* at Makerere University sorts incoming students randomly into their dorms. Can the cultures of these dorms change their personalities?
#naturalexperiment
📢 new episode out: What College Dorms can teach us about Culture

@ricarthuguet.bsky.social learns from college students at Makerere University in Uganda 🇺🇬 how culture develops and persists among its randomly assigned college dorms.

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EPISODE 3.7: What College Dorms can teach us about Culture, with Joan Ricart-Huguet — Scope Conditions Podcast
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July 22, 2024 at 5:49 PM
New Open Access article @The_JOP : www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In "Left Out," @ProfTortuga, @MigrationNerd, and I find in Colombia that misperceptions about migrants' political ideology (that they are more leftist than they actually are) can drive opposition to migrant reception.
June 28, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Does sustained contact with migrants change locals' attitudes toward them in wartime? In a new AJPS article, Yang-Yang Zhou & me conduct a field experiment in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and find no evidence that locals' attitudes changed in any way

Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings
Despite record numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) globally, we know little about the causal effects of intergroup contact between migrants and locals in active conflict settings. We condu...
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April 25, 2024 at 11:00 AM