Phil Triadafilopoulos

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Harney Lecture Series

On the Frontline of Immigration Enforcement: The Battle to Preserve Asylum & Human Rights on the US-Mexico Border, with Luis Campos. November 5, 2025, 4-6PM, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, Rm 108, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto.
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Metro Morning with David Common: What would scrapping the temporary foreign worker program mean for Canada? www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Thanks to David Common and the team at CBC Radio’s Metro Morning for the opportunity to discuss the intensifying political debate over Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada.

Metro Morning with David Common: What would scrapping the temporary foreign worker program mean for Canada?

Whose School System? Rethinking Immigration and Education Policy in Ontario How one of our research teams, led by Dr. Phil Triadafilopoulos, is examining Ontario’s evolving response to the educational needs of immigrant and second-generation pupils How is education policy res...

Over on our LinkedIn page, we're piloting a new Research-in-Progress article series. You can check it out here!

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Between Beveridge and Bismarck: Preferences for redistribution through public pensions We examine preferences for redistribution in Germany’s public pension system as well as notions of fairness of the system, using survey and experiment…

New publication with Breyer, Sterba, &Schwerdt @excinequality.bsky.social

In an experiment, a 1/3 of respondents are able to identify the actual distribution of pensions according to the German pension regime. Politicians do a bit better. Citizens & politicians want more redistributive pensions.

Our article with @lindawhite.bsky.social , @philtriadafilos.bsky.social, and Jim Farney is now available in Publius: The Journal of Federalism! academic.oup.com/publius/adva...

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People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug

Congratulations, Dr. Trevor Reichman. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...

Thanks for clarifying, Fabian. I look forward to reading your article and the piece by Claus Hofhansel (thanks for recommending both!).

Agree for most part, Maarten, but there was a measure of cowardice/bad faith in that reform (sadly directed at the most vulnerable). It may have been the cost of doing business in an unwieldy coalition, but it was problematic nonetheless. Labour doesn’t have that excuse, so it’s even worse.

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The Liberal platform is fairly strong on policy but rather weak on governance.

It would require a serious effort to renew intergovernmental relations to accomplish this - by institutionalizing Team Canada and envisioning a formal role for municipal and Indigenous stakeholders.

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When China and the U.S. fight, who wins? Podcast Episode · Front Burner · 2025-04-16 · 41m

Highly recommended. Great work by Front Burner host Jayme Poisson and guest David Rennie of The Economist. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...

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Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

New from me, with a bonus Simpsons analogy!

Seit 2014 gab es unzählige Verschärfungen des Asyl- und Ausländerrechts, immer mit dem Kalkül, den Druck vom rassistischen Kessel zu nehmen. Die AfD stand damals bei 6%. Heute ist sie mit 25% stärkste Kraft. Diese Politik hat empirisch versagt. Trotzdem halten CDU und SPD daran fest. Unbelehrbar.

Eilidh Beaton, Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem - PhilPapers Political philosophy has long been criticised for its state-centricity. A recent version of this objection asserts that the discipline perpetuates a problematic methodological nationalism. Critics arg...

📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)



A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI

The puzzling persistence of multiculturalism policies in Europe Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, multiculturalism has come under fire from champions of civic integration and far right-wing populists. Despite this, multiculturalism policie...

Why have multiculturalism policies been so durable in Europe, despite the ascent of civic integration policies and right-wing populist parties? Daniel Westlake, Keith Banting and I have some thoughts: The puzzling persistence of multiculturalism policies in Europe www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5AV3Y...

So, “real reform” might require less stringent interpretations of human rights and Germany purposefully undermining EU asylum laws/procedures? And mandatory detention to boot? An alarming prescription that pours rhetorical gasoline onto the fire that is migration politics in Germany. Shocking & sad.

Can Friedrich Merz navigate Germany’s fragmented political landscape? A grand coalition between the CDU/CSU and SPD is widely expected in Germany. But can the new coalition respond to the multiple challenges facing the country?

It's a reasonable question, but what, exactly, would be the alternative? #Germany #Merz

Powerful stuff from @sproudfoot.bsky.social

Many memorable lines in this. “Forget shining city on a hill. The United States is now the world’s drunk uncle-by-marriage, showing up at a family dinner to spout off ugly nonsense while everyone looks away from the stains on his clothes and tries to ignore the odours wafting from him.”

German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.

Other countries are going to start posting US travel advisories

I went to the US-Canada border crossing between Coutts, Alberta & Sweetgrass, Montana, to see how Canada is trying to please Trump by bolstering operations there. Instead I found asylum seekers incl kids crossing into Canada on foot, and getting sent back by Canada to their probable deportation.

Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of Grapes MIAMI—Asserting that many differing perspectives on the fruit were readily available online, billionaire Jeff Bezos reportedly sent a note to staff at the Amazon-owned Whole Foods this week strictly f...

Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of Grapes

A screenshot of an email notifying Spotsylvania parents that funding for a program for youth with disabilities has been canceled

the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs

A Civil War by Any Other Name? Building a Qualitative Model to Support Quantitative Datasets: The Cypriot Civil War Abstract. A case study of the Cypriot Civil War (1963–1967) demonstrates that existing scholarly definitions of civil war are inadequate. The arbitrary death thresholds that qualify conflicts for incl...

My co-authored article with Tim Mansueto has finally been published titled 'A Civil War by Any Other Name?' This is one of the first studies on the Cypriot Civil War 1963-67 with a note on 1967-74. direct.mit.edu/jinh/article...

Major corporations are tripping over themselves to appease Trump, while a single public elementary school in Chicago showed more backbone and courage today than all of them combined.

With “Shock and Awe,” the Second Trump Term Opens with a Bid to Strongly Reshape Immigration Within hours of his second inauguration, President Donald Trump moved to dramatically reshape U.S. immigration enforcement and policy. The changes set the stage for mass deportations, all but foreclos...

President Trump has big plans to transform the US immigration system. But constraints loom large

The government may need hundreds of billions of dollars to carry out mass deportations, and it will have to overcome significant opposition from states, business groups & others
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