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Imke Harbers is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, focusing on subnational political institutions, state capacity, citizenship, and democracy. She obtained her PhD from Leiden University and has served as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Harbers' research interests center around multi-method approaches that incorporate geo-spatial analysis with qualitative methods. Her dissertation was nominated for the annual thesis award by the Dutch Political Science Association in 2009, and she received the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize from the European Consortium for Political Research. In 2020, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the CitizenGap project, which examines the politics of birth registration and aims to change the conversation around citizenship and legal identity for undocumented individuals globally. Harbers serves as a co-editor for the journal Regional Federal Studies and leads the Legal Identity Research Project, funded by an ERC Starting Grant, which explores the citizenship gap and civil registration across countries. More information about her work can be found on the CitizenGap project website.
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