Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026For details and registration: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/dynami... This is a timely and important lecture. Be sure to register soon as space is limited! 010
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosCUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Prof. Phil Kasinitz wrote a beautiful tribute to Richard Alba in PNAS. Learn about the path-breaking sociologist’s legacy and body of work www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgRichard D. Alba 1942–2025: Distinguished scholar of ethnicity and immigrant assimilation and cherished mentor and friend | PNASRichard D. Alba, a path-breaking sociologist who studied immigrant assimilation and its impact on mainstream cultures, in the United States and in ... 052
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosLeafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social · 09/06/2026There's a common notion that acculturation harms immigrant health, but acculturation is multidimensional (e.g., linguistic, residential, social). My new work shows it's the *mismatch* between dimensions - not acculturation itself - that explains immigrants' health decline: doi.org/10.1177/0022...doi.orgIs Acculturation the Culprit? Acculturative Discordance and Immigrants’ Later-Life Health - Leafia Zi Ye, 2026Immigrants have similar or higher disability levels than the U.S.-born in later life, which is puzzling given they have a health advantage upon arrival. A popul... 2174
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosCOMPAS @compasoxford.bsky.social · 14/04/2026‘Net migration targets won’t solve Australia’s temporary migration problem’ is one of the conclusions highlighted in a report by the Australian National University’s Migration Hub. Report author and former COMPAS colleague Alan Gamlen and Emeritus Professor Peter McDonald explore the findings.⬇️ 131
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosLeafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Important work documenting the scale of the impact of ending birthright citizenship: "we project 41 “unauthorized” births per 1,000 unauthorized Asians, compared with 17 “unauthorized” births per 1,000 among Latinos." 074
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Please join us for our next Harney lecture, Who Thrives in Canada? Health, Prosperity, and Inequality Across Communities, Tuesday April 7, 5-7pm. We have an all-star panel but only a few seats left, so please register soon! For details and registration, see: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/who-th... 010
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Our next Harney lecture will feature the launch The Way Out: Justice in The Queer Search for Refuge, by Prof. Rebecca Buxton & Dr. Samuel Ritholtz. Friday March 27, 2026, 4-6 PM, Munk School, Boardroom, 315 Bloor St. West. For details and registration click: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/book-l... 001
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosAndrew Parkin @parkinac.bsky.social · 15/03/2026If you’re wondering what the big deal is about Jürgen Habermas (who died yesterday), or if you’ve never heard of him until now, you’re not going to learn much from the short newspaper obituaries, which are focusing on more on what he said about current events than his philosophy. 1/ 616187
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Our next Harney lecture featuring Prof. Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law) is this Thursday March 12, 5-7pm, 315 Bloor Street West. We are almost at capacity, so please register as soon as possible. For details & registration visit: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/immigr... 000
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosKai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 09/03/2026Another firstdw.comEMBARGOED: Germany: Who is Cem Özdemir?Cem Özdemir is set to become the first politician with Turkish roots to lead a German federal state. His Green Party won elections in the wealthy southwestern region of Baden-Württemberg. 094
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Please join us for our next Harney lecture featuring Prof. Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law), Thursday March 12, 5-7pm, 315 Bloor Street West. Seats are going fast, so please register soon. For details & registration visit: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/immigr... 000
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosBryan Jones @alongcamejones.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The University of Texas System has passed a set of rules regulating the teaching of "controversy." The administration of each university in the system gets to decide what constitutes controversy. I've published an op-ed in the Austin Statesman respoonding. 616257
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The Harney Lecture Series is proud to present Prof. Audrey Macklin, "Immigration Exceptionalism and the Dual State" Thursday March 12, 5:00 - 7:00PM, Munk School, Boardroom, 315 Bloor St. West, Toronto Register: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/6468/r... Details: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/immigr... 000
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 26/02/2026TODAY! Harney Lecture with Prof. Ashwini Vasanthakumar,Thursday February 26, 4-6pm. Registration: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/6421/r... Details: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/gratef... 000
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 24/02/2026REMINDER: Our next Harney Lecture with Prof. Ashwini Vasanthakumar is this Thursday February 26, 4-6pm. This is an in-person only event, so please register asap (there are only a few seats left!): munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/6421/r... For more details see: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/gratef... 000
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Please join us for our next Harney Lecture with Prof. Ashwini Vasanthakumar on Thursday February 26, 4-6pm. For details and registration, click: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/gratef.... Please register as soon as possible as space is limited. 000
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 18/01/2026This Thursday! Join us for a panel discussion on "What Happened to Canada’s Immigration Policy? Assessing Responsibility and Weighing Solutions." Details and registration here: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/what-h...munkschool.utoronto.caWhat Happened to Canada’s Immigration Policy? Assessing Responsibility and Weighing Solutions 010
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 08/01/2026What Happened to Canada’s Immigration Policy? Assessing Responsibility and Weighing Solutions January 22, 2026, 5:00PM - 7:00PM Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 315 Bloor St. West, Toronto Please see the link below for details & registration: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/what-h...munkschool.utoronto.caWhat Happened to Canada’s Immigration Policy? Assessing Responsibility and Weighing Solutions 030
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025On 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. munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/harney...munkschool.utoronto.caHarney Lecture Series 000
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Thanks 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? 210
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosEquity in Education Canada - Building Better Futures @equityed.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Over on our LinkedIn page, we're piloting a new Research-in-Progress article series. You can check it out here! www.linkedin.com/pulse/whose-... @lindawhite.bsky.social @bdhuey.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @oiseuoft.bsky.sociallinkedin.comWhose School System? Rethinking Immigration and Education Policy in OntarioHow 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... 032
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosChristian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 29/05/2025New 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.sciencedirect.comBetween Beveridge and Bismarck: Preferences for redistribution through public pensionsWe examine preferences for redistribution in Germany’s public pension system as well as notions of fairness of the system, using survey and experiment… 174
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosSalar Asadolahi @salarasadolahi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Our 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... 🧵👇 122
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Congratulations, Dr. Trevor Reichman. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...nytimes.comPeople With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug 030
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosJörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 19/04/2025The 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. liberal.ca/cstrong/liberal.caCanada Strong | Liberal Party of CanadaDownload our plan 073
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Highly recommended. Great work by Front Burner host Jayme Poisson and guest David Rennie of The Economist. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...podcasts.apple.comWhen China and the U.S. fight, who wins?Podcast Episode · Front Burner · 2025-04-16 · 41m 052
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosMalinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Harvard 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.eduharvard.eduHarvard UniversityHarvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally. 11269491487
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosShannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 12/04/2025New from me, with a bonus Simpsons analogy! 63711
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosRobert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Seit 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. 15472140
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosEilidh Beaton @eilidhbeaton.bsky.social · 10/04/2025📣 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/BEAMNIphilpapers.orgEilidh Beaton, Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem - PhilPapersPolitical 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... 54518
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Why 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...tandfonline.comThe puzzling persistence of multiculturalism policies in EuropeOver 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... 051
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 17/03/2025So, “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. 020
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosKai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 09/03/2025It's a reasonable question, but what, exactly, would be the alternative? #Germany #Merzblogs.lse.ac.ukCan 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? 3102
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Powerful stuff from @sproudfoot.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosLloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Many 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.” 04411
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosPeter Spiro @peterspiro.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Other countries are going to start posting US travel advisorieskpbs.orgGerman tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facilityThe 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. 42716
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosThe Onion @theonion.com · 27/02/2025Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of Grapestheonion.comJeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of GrapesMIAMI—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... 1436023612
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs 339105824646
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosProfessor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 25/01/2025My 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...direct.mit.eduA Civil War by Any Other Name? Building a Qualitative Model to Support Quantitative Datasets: The Cypriot Civil WarAbstract. 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... 2269
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosJen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Major 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. 217738
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosMigration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025President 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 bit.ly/trump2-immig...bit.lyWith “Shock and Awe,” the Second Trump Term Opens with a Bid to Strongly Reshape ImmigrationWithin 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... 032
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Today! If you’re interested in what President Trump’s executive orders on borders, asylum, DEI, and more mean for Canada, and how Canadian leaders should respond, please register and join our all-star panel this afternoon, 4-6pm, at the Munk School. Register via the link below. 010
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Tomorrow! Please register today as space is limited. munkschool.utoronto.ca/sites/defaul... 110
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Please be sure to register—for those attending in person, space is limited. 010
Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 15/01/2025The incoming Trump administration has made migration and border control central issues--how should Canada respond? Join us for an wide ranging discussion featuring an outstanding panel of experts. A must for anyone interested in Canada-US relations! munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/tensio...munkschool.utoronto.caHarney Program Lectures 030
Reposted by Phil TriadafilopoulosYuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 30/12/2024A terrific column on why all or even a substantial portion of archives will never be digitized and why writing serious books will continue to take years, involve analog work, stay material, deserve funds and institutional respect. contingentmagazine.org/2019/03/25/m...contingentmagazine.orgWhy Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized? 217968