Dr Barry Maydom

Overview

Biography

I joined Birkbeck in 2018 after completing my DPhil at the University of Oxford and teaching at Oxford and the London School of Economics.

My research focuses on the political effects of emigration in migrants' homelands and contemporary politics in the Middle East. I teach modules on research design and methods and current issues in international relations.

Qualifications

• DPhil, University of Oxford, 2017

Administrative responsibilities

• Programme Director, BA Politics
• Programme Director, MRes degrees
• Departmental Research Ethics Officer

Professional memberships

• Fellow of Advance HE

ORCID

0000-0003-0821-2019

Research

Research interests

• Migration
• Democratization
• Middle East politics

Research overview

My research interests include the socio-political effects of emigration and remittances in migrants’ homelands, political participation in developing countries, and political change in the contemporary Middle East.

I am currently working on projects investigating how corruption experiences drive emigration in African countries and the effects of migration and remittances on perceptions of corruption and the fiscal contract in Africa and Latin America.

 

Publications

“Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America,” forthcoming in Political Studies.

"Migrant Remittances and Violent Responses to Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean." Latin American Politics and Society 63, no. 2 (2021): 26-50.

"Remittances, Criminal Violence and Voter Turnout." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47, no. 6 (2021): 1349-1374.

"State-sponsored Trade Unions after Democratic Transitions." Democratization 27, no. 7 (2020): 1142-1161.

Working Papers

• “Migrant Remittances and Fiscal Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Mexico” (with Ana Isabel Lopez Garcia and Sarah Berens)
• “Remittances and Democratisation: The Role of Migrants' Destinations”
• “Remittances and Bureaucratic Corruption” (with Ana Isabel Lopez Garcia)
  
• “Political Remittance Cycles in Non-Democracies: Evidence from Egypt and Jordan”
• “Migrant Remittances and Political Participation in the Middle East”
• “Do Corruption Experiences Promote Migration? Observational and Experimental Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa” (with John Maara)

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Current PhD students

• Mohammed AlHajri - The Ports of Oman in China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative
• Ben Steyn - A Political Values Spectrum for Nature and Technology (co-supervised with Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij, Department of Philosophy)
• Lindsay Ward - Policy learning in an authoritarian regime: a case study of the policy development work of INGOs in providing educational and skills support for younger refugees in Jordan.

 

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas

• The politics of migration
• Contemporary Middle East politics
• Democratisation and authoritarian legacies
• Political participation in developing countries
  

If you are interested in pursuing research in any of these areas, you should first read our advice on how to apply for MPhil/PhD research (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/departments/politics/prospective-phd-guidance) before submitting an application.

Teaching

This year, I am teaching Introduction to Quantitative Social Research, Experiments in Social Science, Doing Political Research and Liberal Order and Disorder in Global Politics.

In previous years, I have taught modules on International Migration and Transnationalism, The Politics of Population Change, Qualitative Social Research and Challenges in Contemporary Politics.

Teaching modules

• Dissertation MRes Politics (POSO072D7)
• Liberal Order and Disorder in Global Politics (SSPO159H5)
• Doing Political Research (SSPO220S6)
• Introduction to Quantitative Social Research (SSPO239H7)
• Experiments in Social Science (SSPO245H7)

Publications