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Amanda Garrett (B.A. Political Science, UC Berkeley; A.M. Government, Harvard University) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Government department at Harvard working in the field of comparative politics. She is also currently a doctoral fellow in the Harvard Kennedy School's Multidisciplinary Program for Inequality and Social Policy and an affiliate at the Center for European Studies

Amanda's specific research interests lie in pursuing an interdisciplinary analysis of the international, political, and economic dynamics affecting immigrant and minority integration, primarily with respect to flows from the Middle East/North Africa to the United States and Western Europe. She has worked on a number of projects examining the presence of Islam in Western Europe, the influence of remittances on integration, and immigrant inequality vis-à-vis comparative welfare states, local governance and urban rioting. Her dissertation, entitled "When Cities Fight Back", will focus specifically on examining the causes and consequences of variation in patterns of local-level conflict and urban rioting across 4 European cities as they relate to minority incorporation practices. Using mixed methodologies, Amanda looks at the role of local political stability in institutionalizing fixed patterns of minority participation, for better and worse. She has recently completed field work in Europe and plans to defend her dissertation in May of 2013