Phil Triadafilopoulos
@philtriadafilos.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough & Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Studying international migration & membership politics, & school choice. Interested in the Montreal Canadiens, guitar, & fishing.
October 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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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Harney Lecture Series
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October 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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.
munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/harney...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/harney...
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?
Metro Morning with David Common: What would scrapping the temporary foreign worker program mean for Canada?
September 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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?
Metro Morning with David Common: What would scrapping the temporary foreign worker program mean for Canada?
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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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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...
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July 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Over 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.social
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@lindawhite.bsky.social @bdhuey.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @oiseuoft.bsky.social
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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.
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.
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…
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May 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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.
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.
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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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June 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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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Congratulations, Dr. Trevor Reichman. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...
People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug
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June 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Congratulations, Dr. Trevor Reichman. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...
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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.
liberal.ca/cstrong/
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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April 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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.
liberal.ca/cstrong/
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/
Highly recommended. Great work by Front Burner host Jayme Poisson and guest David Rennie of The Economist. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...
When China and the U.S. fight, who wins?
Podcast Episode · Front Burner · 2025-04-16 · 41m
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April 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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April 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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
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New from me, with a bonus Simpsons analogy!
April 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
New from me, with a bonus Simpsons analogy!
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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.
April 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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.
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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...
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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
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...
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...
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April 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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.
I'm not surprised anymore, but it's still shocking to see how ill-equipped we are as a society to counter illiberalism and confront authoritarianism. How normal, even acceptable, such views have become. And how unable we've become to distinguish right from wrong (morally, ethically & even legally).
Interview mit einem Juristen, der empfiehlt, Menschenrechte zu missachten, gegen EU-Recht zu verstoßen.
Ö. Journalist: "Lesenswertes Interview." 🫠
Na dann.
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Ö. Journalist: "Lesenswertes Interview." 🫠
Na dann.
www.spiegel.de/panorama/mig...
March 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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.
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Powerful stuff from @sproudfoot.bsky.social
I left northern Ontario 25 years ago, but it’s always in my blood (and in my accent when I get mad). Pretty much everyone there is mad right now. Here’s how stupid the tariff threat looks from a border town.
March 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Powerful stuff from @sproudfoot.bsky.social
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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.”
I left northern Ontario 25 years ago, but it’s always in my blood (and in my accent when I get mad). Pretty much everyone there is mad right now. Here’s how stupid the tariff threat looks from a border town.
March 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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.”
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Other countries are going to start posting US travel advisories
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.
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March 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Other countries are going to start posting US travel advisories
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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.
March 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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.
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Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of Grapes
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...
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February 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of Grapes
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the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
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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...
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...
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January 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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...
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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.
"ICE agents attempted to conduct an enforcement action at Hamline Elementary School...Chicago Public Schools officials said Friday. The agents were turned away and no one appears to have been detained."
ICE Agents Turned Away From Back of the Yards Elementary School: Officials
The agents were turned away and no one appears to have been detained, Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th Ward) told WTTW News.
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January 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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.
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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
bit.ly/trump2-immig...
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...
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...
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January 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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
bit.ly/trump2-immig...
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...