Meghan Benton
Meghan Benton is a Policy Analyst in the International Program at MPI, where she works for the Transatlantic Council on Migration and on European migration. She is also a nonresident fellow with the Migration Policy Institute Europe.
Her research interests include citizenship policy, immigrant integration, and asylum and refugee issues.
Before joining MPI, Dr. Benton was a Research Associate at University College London’s Constitution Unit, where she published several reports on the UK Parliament, parliamentary committees, and the legislative process. Her most recent publications include Selective Influence: The Policy Impact of House of Commons Select Committees and The Tyranny of the Enfranchised Majority? The Accountability of States to their Non-Citizen Population, which was published in the journal Res Publica and shortlisted for its postgraduate prize. She also authored a number of papers and reports on education and young people while working for the Institute for Public Policy Research in London.
Dr. Benton received her PhD in political science from University College London in 2010. Her dissertation focused on the rights of resident noncitizens and citizenship acquisition. She also holds a master’s degree in legal and political theory (with distinction) from University College London, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and literature from Warwick University.
The Migration Policy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of
migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels.
