Lukas Schmid
@lukasschmid.bsky.social
Political theory postdoc at Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt. Writing a book on the (il-)legitimate authority of state migration control. 🇵🇸
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#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...
October 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...
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For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs -
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
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🔍 Many migration policies involve conflicting yet equally important moral goals.
These aren't just philosophical puzzles, they're real tensions that shape decisions.
Here's how engagement w/ ethical dilemmas can improve debates and policymaking on migration➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
These aren't just philosophical puzzles, they're real tensions that shape decisions.
Here's how engagement w/ ethical dilemmas can improve debates and policymaking on migration➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration | Ethics & International Affairs | Cambridge Core
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - Volume 39 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
July 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🔍 Many migration policies involve conflicting yet equally important moral goals.
These aren't just philosophical puzzles, they're real tensions that shape decisions.
Here's how engagement w/ ethical dilemmas can improve debates and policymaking on migration➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
These aren't just philosophical puzzles, they're real tensions that shape decisions.
Here's how engagement w/ ethical dilemmas can improve debates and policymaking on migration➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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People often talk about how badly migrants are treated, and how misleading the media is. And it is. But this focus can overlook difficult moral dilemmas, where it's not clear - even if you have all the facts - what policy is ethically defensible. That's the focus of this special issue.
For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs -
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
People often talk about how badly migrants are treated, and how misleading the media is. And it is. But this focus can overlook difficult moral dilemmas, where it's not clear - even if you have all the facts - what policy is ethically defensible. That's the focus of this special issue.
For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs -
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
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I wrote a short response to @leilahadjabdou.bsky.social and @eszterkollar79.bsky.social article on failed asylum seekers right to stay, for @mpc-eui.bsky.social
migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...
migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...
Failed asylum seekers - Migration Policy Centre
Why failed asylum seekers should have a conditional right to stay
migrationpolicycentre.eu
July 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I wrote a short response to @leilahadjabdou.bsky.social and @eszterkollar79.bsky.social article on failed asylum seekers right to stay, for @mpc-eui.bsky.social
migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...
migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...
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NGOs are often unsure how to help refugees. For example, when refugees without rights seek help repatriating, NGOs may feel helping makes them complicit in forced returns, but not helping forces refugees to remain. I consider how dilemmas like these can be resolved. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
How to Solve Immigration Dilemmas | Ethics & International Affairs | Cambridge Core
How to Solve Immigration Dilemmas - Volume 39 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
July 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
NGOs are often unsure how to help refugees. For example, when refugees without rights seek help repatriating, NGOs may feel helping makes them complicit in forced returns, but not helping forces refugees to remain. I consider how dilemmas like these can be resolved. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Excited to share that my article “Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?”has just been published (open access) in EJPT. I bring radical realism into dialogue with Adorno, exploring both productive common ground and instructive tensions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Excited to share that my article “Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?”has just been published (open access) in EJPT. I bring radical realism into dialogue with Adorno, exploring both productive common ground and instructive tensions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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My introduction to the special issue on relational equality & migration is now out! It provides a comprehensive introduction to the state of the debate about relational egalitarianism & migration + an overview of the special issue contributions doi.org/10.1515/mopp... #philsky #poltheory #migcitsky
Relational Egalitarianism and Migration: An Introduction
In this introductory essay to the special issue on relational equality and migration, I first introduce a familiar way of conceiving of the connection between equality and migration, one that focuses ...
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June 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
My introduction to the special issue on relational equality & migration is now out! It provides a comprehensive introduction to the state of the debate about relational egalitarianism & migration + an overview of the special issue contributions doi.org/10.1515/mopp... #philsky #poltheory #migcitsky
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Und das nicht erst seit der letzten Offensive. Die Art der Vernichtung, die Intention, die Gewalt, all das ist seit Monaten klar, aber dieses Land hat sich entschieden, kollektiv die Augen zu verschließen und diejenigen als Antisemiten zu schmähen, die das angeprangert haben.
„Das Schweigen zur Lage in Gaza ist unerträglich. Deutschland steht mit seiner Haltung immer isolierter da. Dabei hat die Bundesregierung gerade mit Blick auf die eigene Geschichte eine Verantwortung.“
www.spiegel.de/ausland/isra...
www.spiegel.de/ausland/isra...
(S+) Meinung: Israel und Gaza: Schluss mit dem deutschen Rumgedruckse
Das Schweigen zur Lage in Gaza ist unerträglich. Deutschland steht mit seiner Haltung immer isolierter da. Dabei hat die Bundesregierung gerade mit Blick auf die eigene Geschichte eine Verantwortung.
www.spiegel.de
May 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Und das nicht erst seit der letzten Offensive. Die Art der Vernichtung, die Intention, die Gewalt, all das ist seit Monaten klar, aber dieses Land hat sich entschieden, kollektiv die Augen zu verschließen und diejenigen als Antisemiten zu schmähen, die das angeprangert haben.
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My new book, The Way Out, is now available for pre-order!
Written with my co-author Samuel Ritholtz, we ask what justice requires for LGBTQ refugees by centring the lives of queer and trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
Written with my co-author Samuel Ritholtz, we ask what justice requires for LGBTQ refugees by centring the lives of queer and trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
May 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My new book, The Way Out, is now available for pre-order!
Written with my co-author Samuel Ritholtz, we ask what justice requires for LGBTQ refugees by centring the lives of queer and trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
Written with my co-author Samuel Ritholtz, we ask what justice requires for LGBTQ refugees by centring the lives of queer and trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
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On 4 June I present my paper with @nwelfens.bsky.social on the impact of migration research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social will act as discussant!
There will be lots of room for discussion, so please join!
The event is hybrid.
www.oeaw.ac.at/isr/institut...
There will be lots of room for discussion, so please join!
The event is hybrid.
www.oeaw.ac.at/isr/institut...
Why has migration research so little impact?
www.oeaw.ac.at
May 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
On 4 June I present my paper with @nwelfens.bsky.social on the impact of migration research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social will act as discussant!
There will be lots of room for discussion, so please join!
The event is hybrid.
www.oeaw.ac.at/isr/institut...
There will be lots of room for discussion, so please join!
The event is hybrid.
www.oeaw.ac.at/isr/institut...
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A world historical crime, taking place in full view, with the perpetrators so convinced of their impunity that they can brag about genocidal intent, and it’s hard not to agree with their calculation that no one will stop them and no one will be held accountable
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A world historical crime, taking place in full view, with the perpetrators so convinced of their impunity that they can brag about genocidal intent, and it’s hard not to agree with their calculation that no one will stop them and no one will be held accountable
Is there a hard dilemma between the goals of safeguarding democracy and achieving justice for (would-be) immigrants?
Check out this new Dilemmas Debate over at @mpc-eui.bsky.social's website!
Check out this new Dilemmas Debate over at @mpc-eui.bsky.social's website!
Can freer immigration undermine democracy by fueling populist backlash? It's one of the defining questions of our time, long overlooked by advocates.
Check out this new exchange between @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social, myself, and other scholars on the issue:
migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...
Check out this new exchange between @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social, myself, and other scholars on the issue:
migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...
April 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Is there a hard dilemma between the goals of safeguarding democracy and achieving justice for (would-be) immigrants?
Check out this new Dilemmas Debate over at @mpc-eui.bsky.social's website!
Check out this new Dilemmas Debate over at @mpc-eui.bsky.social's website!
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On 2nd May 1997 strangers hugged each other on the streets in the UK because Tony Blair had ended more than a decade of Tory rule. Now the front door of the Tony Blair Institute doesn’t even display a name plate.
The same Tony Blair has been paid to advise oil rich autocratic states including Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan
This should be included in *every* story about his net zero comments
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
This should be included in *every* story about his net zero comments
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Tony Blair calls for radical reset of climate change policies in major intervention
Former PM warns climate policy has become disconnected from ‘political, public, and economic reality’ and claims COP is struggling to ‘deliver change at the speed required’
www.independent.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
On 2nd May 1997 strangers hugged each other on the streets in the UK because Tony Blair had ended more than a decade of Tory rule. Now the front door of the Tony Blair Institute doesn’t even display a name plate.
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Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review!
How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term?
Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term?
Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
April 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review!
How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term?
Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term?
Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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My article “Can States Resist Migration Blackmail While Protecting Migrants?” has been published open access in Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy. #migcitsky #philsky #poltheory jesp.org/index.php/je...
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
Migration blackmail occurs when one state threatens to engineer a “migration crisis” on the borders of a target state by creating or permitting an irregular migration flow unless political or economic...
jesp.org
April 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My article “Can States Resist Migration Blackmail While Protecting Migrants?” has been published open access in Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy. #migcitsky #philsky #poltheory jesp.org/index.php/je...
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Except for Palestine.
And if you talk about it, Patrick Cramer will fire you. Like he fired Ghassan Hage.
And if you talk about it, Patrick Cramer will fire you. Like he fired Ghassan Hage.
April 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Except for Palestine.
And if you talk about it, Patrick Cramer will fire you. Like he fired Ghassan Hage.
And if you talk about it, Patrick Cramer will fire you. Like he fired Ghassan Hage.
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Verharmlosung von Verbrechen gegen Menschlichkeit. Von einer Professorin der @goetheuni.bsky.social. Eigentlich eine Straftat. Habt Ihr damit kein Problem?
Dulden die Kolleg*innen diese Hetze ohne öffentlichen Widerspruch? @cwhittaker.bsky.social
Dulden die Kolleg*innen diese Hetze ohne öffentlichen Widerspruch? @cwhittaker.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Verharmlosung von Verbrechen gegen Menschlichkeit. Von einer Professorin der @goetheuni.bsky.social. Eigentlich eine Straftat. Habt Ihr damit kein Problem?
Dulden die Kolleg*innen diese Hetze ohne öffentlichen Widerspruch? @cwhittaker.bsky.social
Dulden die Kolleg*innen diese Hetze ohne öffentlichen Widerspruch? @cwhittaker.bsky.social
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“The genocide in Gaza is therefore not an incidental event that can be ignored but a fundamental event like the Vietnam War, where what is being burned with American weapons are not just nonwhite people but American ideals and the possibilities of euphemism. …
LE MONDE asked me to write an article about American literature in the age of Trump, but then decided it didn't like what I wrote. Oh well. Here it is in LitHub: "Most American literature is the literature of empire."
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire
One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…
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April 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
“The genocide in Gaza is therefore not an incidental event that can be ignored but a fundamental event like the Vietnam War, where what is being burned with American weapons are not just nonwhite people but American ideals and the possibilities of euphemism. …
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And while we’re at it let’s stop the fetishisation of US academia. That’s moribund too, we need a multipolar world scientific community (especially in the social sciences)
April 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
And while we’re at it let’s stop the fetishisation of US academia. That’s moribund too, we need a multipolar world scientific community (especially in the social sciences)
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📣 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
A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI
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...
philpapers.org
April 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
📣 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
A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI