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Triadafilos (Phil) Triadafilopoulos is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Interim Director of the Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. His research focuses on immigration and citizenship politics and policy in Europe and North America.
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The domestic politics of selective permeability: Disaggregating the Canadian migration state. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(3), 702-725. University of Toronto Publication 2024-11-15 Research Seminar with Heli Askola In this in-person seminar hosted by CERC Migration and Bridging Divides, Heli Askola, a leading scholar in immigration and citizenship law, explored the meanings, drivers, and policy narratives around citizenship acquisition and integration in Australia. Focusing on the official and hidden assumptions embedded in integration policy and naturalization, Askola’s presentation examined how nations like Australia and Canada monitor and attempt to influence citizenship uptake, the distinct experiences of migrant groups, and the deeper, often unspoken expectations embedded within “inclusive” immigration narratives. The session incorporated comparative, gender, and human rights perspectives and prompted discussion on what is silenced when countries present themselves as inclusive immigration nations.
Other University of Toronto Activity 2024-12-02 Other Variation All the Way Down: Charting the Subnational Trajectories of School Choice Policy across and within Multicultural Democracies Abstract The expansion of choice within and outside the public education system has become a defining characteristic of countries across the Western world. Yet comparative analyses of these policy developments at the subnational level, where the most extensive and significant variation exists, are lacking. To address this problem, this article presents a novel index that can be used to track subnational variation in school choice policies. We use this index to chart changes in four multicultural and federal or decentralized countries, Australia, Canada, Germany, and the UK, between 1980 and 2020. Our findings indicate that choice has expanded in nearly all subnational governments over time but that the direction and scale of change is quite varied. Additionally, we show that within-country variation is often as stark as between-country variation and different subnational governments across countries share more commonalities in education choice policies than with their subnational neighbors. University of Toronto Publication 2025-05-27 The puzzling persistence of multiculturalism policies in Europe University of Toronto Publication 2025-04-08 Education and choice in the United Kingdom: measuring school choice policies in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (1980–2020) This article introduces and discusses the findings of the United Kingdom School Choice Policy Index (UKSCPI) which provides an overview of the development of school choice policies across seven indicators over the 1980–2020 period, comparing how each of these policy areas have developed across the UK. The findings reveal that school choice has increased most in England with smaller increases in choice in the other countries. The establishment and expansion of Academies accounts for much of the rising levels of choice in England relative to the other three countries since 2010. Following a discussion of the findings of the index, the paper briefly outlines the historical context around the establishment of Academies and considers how their introduction and subsequent expansion has potentially provided wealthier families with more options with regard to their children's schooling as compared to economically disadvantaged families. University of Toronto Publication 2024-07-29 7 The Changing Contours of Migration Governance in Canada University of Toronto Publication 2024-05-30 The Changing Contours of Migration Governance in Canada University of Toronto Publication 2024-05-14 Citizenship and liberalism Citizenship unites members of a particular, bounded, and self-determining political community by granting them equal legal status, rights, protections, obligations, and a common identity. In so doing, it distinguishes insiders from outsiders. Liberalism counsels state neutrality to extend individuals' ability to autonomously shape their lives—to make decisions that reflect their preferences, goals, and values. Insofar as liberalism advances a notion of the good, it is avowedly individualistic: the state's principal task lies in enabling individuals to use their rights to pursue projects they deem valuable. The resulting question is how these contending logics of citizenship and liberalism have resolved themselves in the context of existing liberal-democratic states. This entry briefly reviews how individuals obtain and lose citizenship, goes on to discuss how liberal-democratic states prevented racialized groups from enjoying the benefits of citizenship, and discusses the liberalization of immigration and citizenship policies after the Second World War. The analysis then turns to recent trends in citizenship policy, which have tempered the liberalizing trajectory of the previous decades in the name of protecting the integrity of liberal societies from putatively illiberal groups. In sum, the universalizing spirit of liberalism has always been tempered by the restrictive tendencies of citizenship in liberal-democratic states. University of Toronto Publication 2024-04-09 The domestic politics of selective permeability: disaggregating the Canadian migration state Hollifield’s ‘migration state’ concept draws attention to the political tension between openness and closure in liberal-democratic countries, arguing that domestic migration policy regimes represent an equilibrium outcome between security, rights, markets, and culture. This overstates national strategic control over migration and borders. Through a case study of recent developments in Canada, sometimes held up as the paradigmatic centralised liberal migration state, we present evidence of growing policy blurring, fragmentation, and decentralisation as migration management programmes have been patched and layered in response to controversies and pressure from domestic interests, including employers, higher education institutions, advocacy groups, and subnational governments. As a result, volumes of temporary foreign workers and foreign students have increased tenfold since 2000. More generally, we propose that a strategy of disaggregation reveals the internal complexity of, and political tensions within, contemporary migration states. University of Toronto Publication 2023-12-01
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