Jeff Pugh
Jeff Pugh is Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He received his Ph.D in Political Science from the Johns Hopkins University, after completing BAs in Political Science and Speech Communication from the University of Georgia. He is also the Executive Director of the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC), based in Quito, Ecuador. He was previously Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College. His book, The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security (Oxford University Press, 2021) examines the integration and protection of Colombian forced migrants in Ecuador, arguing that informal expectations about cultural expression and political activism lead migrants to access rights and protection through governance networks of state and non-state actors. His work has been recognized with a dozen best paper awards for book, articles, conference papers, and dissertation, including from the American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, and others. He was a 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar affiliated with the Department of International Studies and Communication at FLACSO Ecuador. He has authored or co-authored two Spanish-language training manuals on conflict resolution, and under his leadership, CEMPROC has reached over 4,500 adults and children from more than 15 countries around the globe with its conflict resolution and peacemaking training programs. Pugh has developed innovative experiential and study abroad programs to teach international conflict resolution at the university level at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Georgia, Providence College, FLACSO, and UMB through a combination of service-learning, simulations, lecture/discussion, and other teaching strategies. He has taught Negotiation, International Conflict Resolution, Peace & Justice, International Relations, Latin American Politics, Politics, and Model Organization of American States. He also is a Past President of the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS).
Supervisors: Margaret Keck and Renee Marlin-Bennett
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Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance
University of Massachusetts Boston
Wheatley Hall, 4th Floor, Room 128A
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston MA 02125-3393
Supervisors: Margaret Keck and Renee Marlin-Bennett
Address: Jeff Pugh
Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance
University of Massachusetts Boston
Wheatley Hall, 4th Floor, Room 128A
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston MA 02125-3393
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March 18, 2022
by Jeffrey D. Pugh, based on his prize-winning book The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security (Oxford University Press, 2021)
In an era of mass migration and restrictive responses, migrant acceptance is often contingent on the expectation that they contribute economically to the host country while remaining politically and socially invisible. These unwritten expectations, which Pugh calls the "invisibility bargain," produce a precarious status in which migrants' visible differences or overt political demands on the state may be met with hostile backlash from the host society. By examining the case of Colombians in Ecuador, the largest recipient of refugees in Latin America, The Invisibility Bargain examines how migrants negotiate their place in receiving societies and adapt innovative strategies to integrate, participate, and access protection.
This book is the recipient of the 2021 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize for best book, awarded by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS).
Books by Jeff Pugh
The Invisibility Bargain seeks to understand how migrants negotiate their place in receiving societies and adapt innovative strategies to integrate, participate, and access protection. Specifically, the book examines Ecuador, the largest recipient of refugees in Latin America, and assesses how it achieved migrant human security gains despite weak state presence in peripheral areas. Pugh deploys evidence from 15 months of fieldwork spanning ten years in Ecuador, including 170 interviews, an original survey of Colombian migrants in six provinces, network analysis, and discourse analysis of hundreds of presidential speeches and news media articles. He argues that localities with more dense networks composed of more diverse actors tend to produce greater human security for migrants and their neighbors. The book challenges the conventional understanding of migration and security, providing a new approach to the negotiation of authority between state and society. By examining the informal pathways to human security, Pugh dismantles the false dichotomy between international and national politics, and exposes the micro politics of institutional innovation.
Papers by Jeff Pugh
Ecuador tiene la reputación de tener instituciones
progresistas que protegen a los migrantes, pero
traducir estas instituciones formales en garantías
efectivas de derechos e inclusión política es desigual
en la práctica. La capacidad de los migrantes para
integrarse socialmente y participar políticamente
está influenciada por estructuras identitarias en las
que las diferencias de idioma, raza y clase hacen que
algunos migrantes se enfrenten a mayores expectativas
de «invisibilidad política». Este artículo explora
cómo dichas características impulsan las actitudes
sobre democracia, política y niveles de compromiso
político, a través de la encuesta a 720 migrantes en
julio de 2019 en Quito. Se identificó cómo se impide
o facilita el acceso a los derechos, la participación
política y la protección comparando seis poblaciones:
colombianos, venezolanos, cubanos, chinos, haitianos
y ecuatorianos retornados.
Palabras clave: Migración / Políticas / Participación política /
Inclusión / Derechos
Abstract:
Ecuador has a reputation for having progressive institutions that protect migrants, but translating these formal institutions into effective guarantees of rights and political inclusion is uneven in practice. The ability of migrants to successfully integrate into the host society and participate politically is influenced by intersecting identity structures where language, race, and class differences lead to some migrants confronting greater expectations of «political invisibility». This paper seeks to explore how these characteristics drive differential attitudes about democracy and politics and different levels of political engagement among diverse migrant groups by surveying 720 migrants in Quito in July 2019 and comparing six populations: Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans, Chinese, Haitians, and returned Ecuadorian migrants to examine how these different factors impede or facilitate access to rights, political participation, and protection.
Keywords: Migration / Politics / Political Participation /
Inclusion / Rights
March 18, 2022
by Jeffrey D. Pugh, based on his prize-winning book The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security (Oxford University Press, 2021)
In an era of mass migration and restrictive responses, migrant acceptance is often contingent on the expectation that they contribute economically to the host country while remaining politically and socially invisible. These unwritten expectations, which Pugh calls the "invisibility bargain," produce a precarious status in which migrants' visible differences or overt political demands on the state may be met with hostile backlash from the host society. By examining the case of Colombians in Ecuador, the largest recipient of refugees in Latin America, The Invisibility Bargain examines how migrants negotiate their place in receiving societies and adapt innovative strategies to integrate, participate, and access protection.
This book is the recipient of the 2021 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize for best book, awarded by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS).
The Invisibility Bargain seeks to understand how migrants negotiate their place in receiving societies and adapt innovative strategies to integrate, participate, and access protection. Specifically, the book examines Ecuador, the largest recipient of refugees in Latin America, and assesses how it achieved migrant human security gains despite weak state presence in peripheral areas. Pugh deploys evidence from 15 months of fieldwork spanning ten years in Ecuador, including 170 interviews, an original survey of Colombian migrants in six provinces, network analysis, and discourse analysis of hundreds of presidential speeches and news media articles. He argues that localities with more dense networks composed of more diverse actors tend to produce greater human security for migrants and their neighbors. The book challenges the conventional understanding of migration and security, providing a new approach to the negotiation of authority between state and society. By examining the informal pathways to human security, Pugh dismantles the false dichotomy between international and national politics, and exposes the micro politics of institutional innovation.
Ecuador tiene la reputación de tener instituciones
progresistas que protegen a los migrantes, pero
traducir estas instituciones formales en garantías
efectivas de derechos e inclusión política es desigual
en la práctica. La capacidad de los migrantes para
integrarse socialmente y participar políticamente
está influenciada por estructuras identitarias en las
que las diferencias de idioma, raza y clase hacen que
algunos migrantes se enfrenten a mayores expectativas
de «invisibilidad política». Este artículo explora
cómo dichas características impulsan las actitudes
sobre democracia, política y niveles de compromiso
político, a través de la encuesta a 720 migrantes en
julio de 2019 en Quito. Se identificó cómo se impide
o facilita el acceso a los derechos, la participación
política y la protección comparando seis poblaciones:
colombianos, venezolanos, cubanos, chinos, haitianos
y ecuatorianos retornados.
Palabras clave: Migración / Políticas / Participación política /
Inclusión / Derechos
Abstract:
Ecuador has a reputation for having progressive institutions that protect migrants, but translating these formal institutions into effective guarantees of rights and political inclusion is uneven in practice. The ability of migrants to successfully integrate into the host society and participate politically is influenced by intersecting identity structures where language, race, and class differences lead to some migrants confronting greater expectations of «political invisibility». This paper seeks to explore how these characteristics drive differential attitudes about democracy and politics and different levels of political engagement among diverse migrant groups by surveying 720 migrants in Quito in July 2019 and comparing six populations: Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans, Chinese, Haitians, and returned Ecuadorian migrants to examine how these different factors impede or facilitate access to rights, political participation, and protection.
Keywords: Migration / Politics / Political Participation /
Inclusion / Rights
This presentation draws on the speaker’s research with Colombian refugees in Ecuador, as well as on his nine years of experience leading a small nonprofit organization dedicated to conflict resolution education in Ecuador. Through case studies of partnerships involving coordination among UN, NGO, and state actors, the presentation will identify key lessons learned, and will examine the promise and limitations of governance networks. It will also propose recommendations for practitioners in all three sectors seeking to combine and coordinate the peacebuilding potential of state, non-state, and UN actors. The presenter gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Committee on Aid to Faculty Research (CAFR) grant which made this research possible.
Course Description: The course will explore the genesis, current use and critiques of concept of Human Security and its applicability in an increasingly globalizing world.
Course Objectives: By fully participating in this course, you should:
1. Become fully conversant in human security concepts and theories, and be able to distinguish their underlying assumptions from dominant national security approaches, while also applying critical lenses to expose the shortcomings of the human security discourse
2. Be able to analyze conflicts and types of insecurity across a range of issue areas, identify proximate and root causes, and understand how they relate to individuals' freedom from foreseeable harm
3. Be able to integrate multiple disciplinary and analytical approaches to produce a nuanced and deeper understanding of how structural and direct violence is experienced at an individual level, and the types of institutional approaches that can mitigate its harm
Program web page: http://www.umb.edu/academics/mgs/crhsgg/grad/globalgov_phd
"This course explores the conflicts that emerge as a result of intergroup encounters when people move to a new host country, whether they are migrating in search of economic opportunity or fleeing violence and oppression. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course examines the push and pull factors driving migration, as well as the economic and identity factors that explain host-country receptivity or exclusion. It delves into psychological theories of intergroup prejudice, identity formation, and ethnocentrism; sociological theories of networks, assimilation, and group threat, and political explanations of citizenship, political discourse, power, and international institutions to influence migration and refugee policy. The course examines different approaches to addressing conflict between immigrants and the host population, including interpersonal approaches like dialogue, training, trauma awareness, and cross-cultural mediation, as well as system-level approaches like advocacy, human rights accompaniment, networked peacebuilding, public policy, and strategic nonviolent tactics. Drawing concrete case studies from a range of contexts, the course will especially examine anti-immigrant political discourse in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. It will also study examples including; the 2006 pro-immigration marches in LA and elsewhere; the Minutemen and the Arizona immigration law; the struggle between 'welcome refugees' movements vs. nationalism in Germany; xenophobic violence in South Africa; and relatively progressive policies toward Colombian refugees in Ecuador, among others."