Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 638563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Triadafilos |
| FAMILY NAME | Triadafilopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | TRIADAFILOPOULOS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8111-5891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 252 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Variation All the Way Down: Charting the Subnational Trajectories of School Choice Policy across and within Multicultural Democracies
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 ind…
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 policies persist, in many cases increasing in frequency and strength. How might we make sense of this puzzling outcome? We weigh the merits of explanations based on (i) public attitudes, (ii) political parties and electoral politics, and (iii) institutions. Dr…
Fear and Fairness: Why (Some) German States Extended Religious Instruction to Muslim Pupils
Beginning in 2013, several German federal states, including North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, and Hesse, introduced publicly funded religious instruction for Muslim students. Inertia gave way to action for two reasons. First, German political elites feared that a hands-off approach would leave religious education to unregulated religious leaders, increasing the potential for youth radicalization and undermining integration. Second, some polic…
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…
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 libe…
Whiteness and the politics of middle-class nation-building in Canada
In Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada, Jennifer Elrick maintains that Canada’s shift to an immigration admissions regime premised on human capital considerations was (a) spearheaded by high level bureaucrats, (b) did not eschew racial considerations (as is generally assumed) but rather recast them by moving from a biological to a class-based conceptualization of race and national ident…
School choice, policy feedback effects, and policy outcomes: Understanding the relationship between government policy design and parent decisions to “stay” or “defect” from public education
Across OECD countries, education choice is proliferating as parents seek and governments permit choice both inside and outside public education systems. The movement of students out of the common public school, however, varies significantly across jurisdictions and sociodemographic characteristics such as race and class. This variation in individual decision making and macro policy outcomes directs us to theorise about the relationship between pa…
Charting the Rise of School Choice across Canadian Provinces: A Policy Index
This article introduces and discusses the findings of the Canada School Choice Policy Index (CSCPI). This is the first index of its kind that measures the development of school choice policies across the Canadian provinces from 1980 to 2020 using eight unique indicators of choice. In contrast to other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the CSCPI reveals that although Canada has witnessed an increase in…
The Foundations, Limits, and Consequences of Immigration Exceptionalism in Canada
Canadian immigration politics and policymaking are striking. Canadian admission targets have steadily increased since the global economic crisis of 2008-2009, regardless of the party in power and despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to the less welcoming attitudes of publics in other industrialized democracies, Canadians have enthusiastically supported expansive immigration policies. Elite and popular support for Canada’s official multicult…
Germany's Post-2015 Immigration Dilemmas
The German experience shows that liberal democracies are able to develop effective policies and maintain the support of voters when they demonstrate that immigration is in the public interest and can be well managed
Religious groups, liberal-democratic states and competitive boundary making: The debate over ritual male circumcision in Germany
Debates over religious accommodation in liberal-democratic states are common. I offer a framework for making sense of their often-abrupt eruption, unpredictable dynamics and variation across jurisdictions, arguing that they are best understood as instances of competitive group boundary construction and maintenance. Religious believers’ interest in honouring their group’s customs is not only based on individual devotion but also reflects their int…
European Encounters: Migrants, Migration and European Societies Since 1945
Contents: Introduction: European encounters: Europe's migratory experiences, Karen SchA nwAlder, Rainer Ohliger and Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos. The Plurality of the Migratory Experience: Einwanderungsland Deutschland: a new look at its post-war history, Anne von Oswald, Karen SchA nwAlder and Barbara Sonnenberger Post-war immigration to Estonia: a comparative perspective, Hill Kulu Minorities into migrants: emigration and ethnic unmixing in twe…
The New Differentialism: Responses to Immigrant Diversity in Germany
There is widespread agreement among scholars that the 1990s and 2000s witnessed a re-orientation of immigrant policies across western European countries. According to the literature, this re-orientation featured a new and strong focus on encouraging the adjustment of immigrants to the mainstream cultures and political norms of receiving societies. Our article looks back on the developments in Germany since the mid-1990s to examine these assumptio…
Is multiculturalism dead? Groups, governments and the 'real work of integration
Understood as a philosophy counselling group rights and concomitant public policies undertaken by governments to preserve and enhance group identities, multiculturalism has little purchase in European immigrant integration debates. However, based on interviews with various actors engaged in policies that affect immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany, we argue that multiculturalism remains a going concern if it is understood as a problem-solvin…
Wanted and Welcome: Policies for Highly Skilled Immigrants in Comparative Perspective
Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity: Intersections and Boundaries in Immigrant Integration Policy Making
In this paper, we analyze Dutch policy debates that focused on the development of a distinct program to advance the social and economic participation of ethnic minority women (where this label captures immigrant women from non-Western countries). Drawing on intersectional analysis and theories of ethnic boundary formation, we argue that the parliamentary debates surrounding this policy program framed the social problems of these women to effectiv…
Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Politics of Membership in Canada and Germany
In a world of nation-states, international migration raises questions of membership: Should foreigners be admitted to the national space? And should they and their children be granted citizenship? Canada and Germany's responses to these questions during the first half of the twentieth century consisted of discriminatory immigration and citizenship policies aimed at harnessing migration for economic ends while minimizing its costs. Yet, by the end…
Assessing the Consequences of the 1999 German Citizenship Act
This special issue of German Politics and Society offers a retrospective look atthe German Citizenship Act (Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz, StAG), which passed in1999 and came into force in 2000.1 The law was and continues to be understoodby many academics, policymakers, and lay commentators as constitutinga "paradigm shift" in German citizenship policy and, by extension,prevailing conceptions of German nationhood. Childrenborn and raised in Germany …
A Bridge or Barrier to Incorporation? Germany's 1999 Citizenship Reform in Critical Perspective
This article probes the consequences of Germany's 1999 citizenship reform as it pertains to the incorporation of immigrants. We maintain that the law's principled rejection of dual citizenship and related stipulation that children born into German nationality via the law's revolutionary jus soli provision choose between their German citizenship or that of their non-German parents between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three is unfair, potentiall…
Michel Ducharme. Le Concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776 – 1838). Georges Leroux. Partita for Glenn Gould: An Inquiry into the Nature of Genius (Translated by Dona…
Illiberal Means to Liberal Ends? Understanding Recent Immigrant Integration Policies in Europe
A number of European governments have pronounced multiculturalism a failure and opted for more aggressive means of integrating immigrants into their societies. This paper asks what we are to make of this trend: does it reflect deeply rooted illiberal prejudice or a novel shift in liberal-democratic states' approaches to nation-building? I suggest that aggressive integrationism is reflective of a distinctly 'Schmittian' liberalism, which aims to c…
The Limits of the Liberal State: Migration, Identity and Belonging in Europe
What are the contemporary 'limits of the liberal state' with respect to immigration, citizenship and the rights of ethnic and religious minorities in contemporary Europe? The papers in this special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies examine how recent developments in Europe raise new questions regarding the relationship between liberalism, migration, identity and belonging. In this introduction, we identify three major themes th…
Global norms, domestic institutions and the transformation of immigration policy in Canada and the US
This article examines the liberalisation of immigration policy in Canada and the US in the post-World War II era. I argue that shifting norms pertaining to race, ethnicity, and human rights cast longstanding discriminatory policies in Canada and the US in a highly critical light. Opponents of racially discriminatory immigration policies exploited this shift in normative contexts to highlight the disjuncture between Canada and the US’ postwar comm…
Rights, Norms, and Politics: The Case of German Citizenship Reform
In 1999 Germany passed a major reform of its citizenship law, shaking off, however incompletely, its a century-old understanding of the German nation as based in blood. We examine this reform and especially the extended struggle that preceded it in order to better understand how international human rights norms come to play a role in the domestic politics of liberal democracies. Drawing on work in political sociology, international relations, and…
The Limits of Deliberation: Institutions and American Immigration Policy
Illiberal Means to Liberal Ends? Understanding Recent Immigrant Integration Policies in Europe
A number of European governments have pronounced multiculturalism a failure and opted for more aggressive means of integrating immigrants into their societies. This paper asks what we are to make of this trend: does it reflect deeply rooted illiberal prejudice or a novel shift in liberal-democratic states' approaches to nation-building? I suggest that aggressive integrationism is reflective of a distinctly 'Schmittian' liberalism, which aims to c…
The Limits of the Liberal State: Migration, Identity and Belonging in Europe
What are the contemporary 'limits of the liberal state' with respect to immigration, citizenship and the rights of ethnic and religious minorities in contemporary Europe? The papers in this special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies examine how recent developments in Europe raise new questions regarding the relationship between liberalism, migration, identity and belonging. In this introduction, we identify three major themes th…
Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity: Intersections and Boundaries in Immigrant Integration Policy Making
In this paper, we analyze Dutch policy debates that focused on the development of a distinct program to advance the social and economic participation of ethnic minority women (where this label captures immigrant women from non-Western countries). Drawing on intersectional analysis and theories of ethnic boundary formation, we argue that the parliamentary debates surrounding this policy program framed the social problems of these women to effectiv…
Is multiculturalism dead? Groups, governments and the 'real work of integration
Understood as a philosophy counselling group rights and concomitant public policies undertaken by governments to preserve and enhance group identities, multiculturalism has little purchase in European immigrant integration debates. However, based on interviews with various actors engaged in policies that affect immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany, we argue that multiculturalism remains a going concern if it is understood as a problem-solvin…
Politics, Speech, and the Art of Persuasion: Toward an Aristotelian Conception of the Public Sphere
This paper argues that Aristotle's Rhetoric is a valuable source for contemporary theorists of the public sphere. Thus far, these scholars have failed to recognize that Aristotle's discussion of the art of rhetoric contains important elements of both rational/deliberative and agonistic models of the public sphere. Aristotle recognizes that persuasive political speech is reasonable, passionate, and reflective of the character of the speaker. After…
The New Differentialism: Responses to Immigrant Diversity in Germany
There is widespread agreement among scholars that the 1990s and 2000s witnessed a re-orientation of immigrant policies across western European countries. According to the literature, this re-orientation featured a new and strong focus on encouraging the adjustment of immigrants to the mainstream cultures and political norms of receiving societies. Our article looks back on the developments in Germany since the mid-1990s to examine these assumptio…
How the Federal Republic Became an Immigration Country: Norms, Politics and the Failure of West Germany's Guest Worker System
With the passage of a new citizenship law in 1999 and the so-calledZuwanderungsgesetz (Migration Law) of 2004, contemporary Germanyhas gone a long way toward acknowledging its status as an immigrationcountry (Einwanderungsland). Yet, Germany is still regarded bymany as a "reluctant" land of immigration, different than traditionalimmigration countries such as Canada, the United States, and Australia.It owes this image to the fact that many of toda…
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 libe…
Building Walls, Bounding Nations: Migration and Exclusion in Canada and Germany, 1870-1939
Transformations in global capitalism increased rates of international migration at the turn of the twentieth century, a period also marked by the widespread popularity of scientific racism, integral nationalism, and vaunted notions of state sovereignty. This paper considers how the intersection of these factors influenced migration and citizenship policymaking in Canada and Germany. In both cases, migration was harnessed to further economic objec…
Global norms, domestic institutions and the transformation of immigration policy in Canada and the US
This article examines the liberalisation of immigration policy in Canada and the US in the post-World War II era. I argue that shifting norms pertaining to race, ethnicity, and human rights cast longstanding discriminatory policies in Canada and the US in a highly critical light. Opponents of racially discriminatory immigration policies exploited this shift in normative contexts to highlight the disjuncture between Canada and the US’ postwar comm…
Charting the Rise of School Choice across Canadian Provinces: A Policy Index
This article introduces and discusses the findings of the Canada School Choice Policy Index (CSCPI). This is the first index of its kind that measures the development of school choice policies across the Canadian provinces from 1980 to 2020 using eight unique indicators of choice. In contrast to other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the CSCPI reveals that although Canada has witnessed an increase in…
School choice, policy feedback effects, and policy outcomes: Understanding the relationship between government policy design and parent decisions to “stay” or “defect” from public education
Across OECD countries, education choice is proliferating as parents seek and governments permit choice both inside and outside public education systems. The movement of students out of the common public school, however, varies significantly across jurisdictions and sociodemographic characteristics such as race and class. This variation in individual decision making and macro policy outcomes directs us to theorise about the relationship between pa…
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 policies persist, in many cases increasing in frequency and strength. How might we make sense of this puzzling outcome? We weigh the merits of explanations based on (i) public attitudes, (ii) political parties and electoral politics, and (iii) institutions. Dr…
Assessing the Consequences of the 1999 German Citizenship Act
This special issue of German Politics and Society offers a retrospective look atthe German Citizenship Act (Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz, StAG), which passed in1999 and came into force in 2000.1 The law was and continues to be understoodby many academics, policymakers, and lay commentators as constitutinga "paradigm shift" in German citizenship policy and, by extension,prevailing conceptions of German nationhood. Childrenborn and raised in Germany …
A Bridge or Barrier to Incorporation? Germany's 1999 Citizenship Reform in Critical Perspective
This article probes the consequences of Germany's 1999 citizenship reform as it pertains to the incorporation of immigrants. We maintain that the law's principled rejection of dual citizenship and related stipulation that children born into German nationality via the law's revolutionary jus soli provision choose between their German citizenship or that of their non-German parents between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three is unfair, potentiall…
Rights, Norms, and Politics: The Case of German Citizenship Reform
In 1999 Germany passed a major reform of its citizenship law, shaking off, however incompletely, its a century-old understanding of the German nation as based in blood. We examine this reform and especially the extended struggle that preceded it in order to better understand how international human rights norms come to play a role in the domestic politics of liberal democracies. Drawing on work in political sociology, international relations, and…
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…
Religious groups, liberal-democratic states and competitive boundary making: The debate over ritual male circumcision in Germany
Debates over religious accommodation in liberal-democratic states are common. I offer a framework for making sense of their often-abrupt eruption, unpredictable dynamics and variation across jurisdictions, arguing that they are best understood as instances of competitive group boundary construction and maintenance. Religious believers’ interest in honouring their group’s customs is not only based on individual devotion but also reflects their int…
Power politics and nationalist discourse in the struggle for 'Northern Epirus: 1919-1921
2000). Power politics and nationalist discourse in the struggle for 'Northern Epirus': 1919-1921. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 149-162
Culture vs citizenship? A review and critique of will Kymlicka's multicultural citizenship
The article presents a review and critique of Will Kymlicka's Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. I focus primarily on the normative elements and consequences of Kymlicka's theory and present an alternative to his liberal defence of group‐differentiated rights. In marked contrast to Kymlicka, I argue that to truly protect their cultures minority groups must forge closer ties with their respective states. Furthermore, I…
Politics, Speech, and the Art of Persuasion: Toward an Aristotelian Conception of the Public Sphere
This paper argues that Aristotle's Rhetoric is a valuable source for contemporary theorists of the public sphere. Thus far, these scholars have failed to recognize that Aristotle's discussion of the art of rhetoric contains important elements of both rational/deliberative and agonistic models of the public sphere. Aristotle recognizes that persuasive political speech is reasonable, passionate, and reflective of the character of the speaker. After…
Power politics and nationalist discourse in the struggle for 'Northern Epirus: 1919-1921
2000). Power politics and nationalist discourse in the struggle for 'Northern Epirus': 1919-1921. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 149-162
Building Walls, Bounding Nations: Migration and Exclusion in Canada and Germany, 1870-1939
Transformations in global capitalism increased rates of international migration at the turn of the twentieth century, a period also marked by the widespread popularity of scientific racism, integral nationalism, and vaunted notions of state sovereignty. This paper considers how the intersection of these factors influenced migration and citizenship policymaking in Canada and Germany. In both cases, migration was harnessed to further economic objec…
How the Federal Republic Became an Immigration Country: Norms, Politics and the Failure of West Germany's Guest Worker System
With the passage of a new citizenship law in 1999 and the so-calledZuwanderungsgesetz (Migration Law) of 2004, contemporary Germanyhas gone a long way toward acknowledging its status as an immigrationcountry (Einwanderungsland). Yet, Germany is still regarded bymany as a "reluctant" land of immigration, different than traditionalimmigration countries such as Canada, the United States, and Australia.It owes this image to the fact that many of toda…
Global norms, domestic institutions and the transformation of immigration policy in Canada and the US
This article examines the liberalisation of immigration policy in Canada and the US in the post-World War II era. I argue that shifting norms pertaining to race, ethnicity, and human rights cast longstanding discriminatory policies in Canada and the US in a highly critical light. Opponents of racially discriminatory immigration policies exploited this shift in normative contexts to highlight the disjuncture between Canada and the US’ postwar comm…
Rights, Norms, and Politics: The Case of German Citizenship Reform
In 1999 Germany passed a major reform of its citizenship law, shaking off, however incompletely, its a century-old understanding of the German nation as based in blood. We examine this reform and especially the extended struggle that preceded it in order to better understand how international human rights norms come to play a role in the domestic politics of liberal democracies. Drawing on work in political sociology, international relations, and…
The Limits of Deliberation: Institutions and American Immigration Policy
Michel Ducharme. Le Concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776 – 1838). Georges Leroux. Partita for Glenn Gould: An Inquiry into the Nature of Genius (Translated by Dona…
Illiberal Means to Liberal Ends? Understanding Recent Immigrant Integration Policies in Europe
A number of European governments have pronounced multiculturalism a failure and opted for more aggressive means of integrating immigrants into their societies. This paper asks what we are to make of this trend: does it reflect deeply rooted illiberal prejudice or a novel shift in liberal-democratic states' approaches to nation-building? I suggest that aggressive integrationism is reflective of a distinctly 'Schmittian' liberalism, which aims to c…
The Limits of the Liberal State: Migration, Identity and Belonging in Europe
What are the contemporary 'limits of the liberal state' with respect to immigration, citizenship and the rights of ethnic and religious minorities in contemporary Europe? The papers in this special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies examine how recent developments in Europe raise new questions regarding the relationship between liberalism, migration, identity and belonging. In this introduction, we identify three major themes th…
Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Politics of Membership in Canada and Germany
In a world of nation-states, international migration raises questions of membership: Should foreigners be admitted to the national space? And should they and their children be granted citizenship? Canada and Germany's responses to these questions during the first half of the twentieth century consisted of discriminatory immigration and citizenship policies aimed at harnessing migration for economic ends while minimizing its costs. Yet, by the end…
Assessing the Consequences of the 1999 German Citizenship Act
This special issue of German Politics and Society offers a retrospective look atthe German Citizenship Act (Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz, StAG), which passed in1999 and came into force in 2000.1 The law was and continues to be understoodby many academics, policymakers, and lay commentators as constitutinga "paradigm shift" in German citizenship policy and, by extension,prevailing conceptions of German nationhood. Childrenborn and raised in Germany …
A Bridge or Barrier to Incorporation? Germany's 1999 Citizenship Reform in Critical Perspective
This article probes the consequences of Germany's 1999 citizenship reform as it pertains to the incorporation of immigrants. We maintain that the law's principled rejection of dual citizenship and related stipulation that children born into German nationality via the law's revolutionary jus soli provision choose between their German citizenship or that of their non-German parents between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three is unfair, potentiall…
Wanted and Welcome: Policies for Highly Skilled Immigrants in Comparative Perspective
Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity: Intersections and Boundaries in Immigrant Integration Policy Making
In this paper, we analyze Dutch policy debates that focused on the development of a distinct program to advance the social and economic participation of ethnic minority women (where this label captures immigrant women from non-Western countries). Drawing on intersectional analysis and theories of ethnic boundary formation, we argue that the parliamentary debates surrounding this policy program framed the social problems of these women to effectiv…
Is multiculturalism dead? Groups, governments and the 'real work of integration
Understood as a philosophy counselling group rights and concomitant public policies undertaken by governments to preserve and enhance group identities, multiculturalism has little purchase in European immigrant integration debates. However, based on interviews with various actors engaged in policies that affect immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany, we argue that multiculturalism remains a going concern if it is understood as a problem-solvin…
The New Differentialism: Responses to Immigrant Diversity in Germany
There is widespread agreement among scholars that the 1990s and 2000s witnessed a re-orientation of immigrant policies across western European countries. According to the literature, this re-orientation featured a new and strong focus on encouraging the adjustment of immigrants to the mainstream cultures and political norms of receiving societies. Our article looks back on the developments in Germany since the mid-1990s to examine these assumptio…
European Encounters: Migrants, Migration and European Societies Since 1945
Contents: Introduction: European encounters: Europe's migratory experiences, Karen SchA nwAlder, Rainer Ohliger and Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos. The Plurality of the Migratory Experience: Einwanderungsland Deutschland: a new look at its post-war history, Anne von Oswald, Karen SchA nwAlder and Barbara Sonnenberger Post-war immigration to Estonia: a comparative perspective, Hill Kulu Minorities into migrants: emigration and ethnic unmixing in twe…
Germany's Post-2015 Immigration Dilemmas
The German experience shows that liberal democracies are able to develop effective policies and maintain the support of voters when they demonstrate that immigration is in the public interest and can be well managed
Religious groups, liberal-democratic states and competitive boundary making: The debate over ritual male circumcision in Germany
Debates over religious accommodation in liberal-democratic states are common. I offer a framework for making sense of their often-abrupt eruption, unpredictable dynamics and variation across jurisdictions, arguing that they are best understood as instances of competitive group boundary construction and maintenance. Religious believers’ interest in honouring their group’s customs is not only based on individual devotion but also reflects their int…
The Foundations, Limits, and Consequences of Immigration Exceptionalism in Canada
Canadian immigration politics and policymaking are striking. Canadian admission targets have steadily increased since the global economic crisis of 2008-2009, regardless of the party in power and despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to the less welcoming attitudes of publics in other industrialized democracies, Canadians have enthusiastically supported expansive immigration policies. Elite and popular support for Canada’s official multicult…
School choice, policy feedback effects, and policy outcomes: Understanding the relationship between government policy design and parent decisions to “stay” or “defect” from public education
Across OECD countries, education choice is proliferating as parents seek and governments permit choice both inside and outside public education systems. The movement of students out of the common public school, however, varies significantly across jurisdictions and sociodemographic characteristics such as race and class. This variation in individual decision making and macro policy outcomes directs us to theorise about the relationship between pa…
Charting the Rise of School Choice across Canadian Provinces: A Policy Index
This article introduces and discusses the findings of the Canada School Choice Policy Index (CSCPI). This is the first index of its kind that measures the development of school choice policies across the Canadian provinces from 1980 to 2020 using eight unique indicators of choice. In contrast to other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the CSCPI reveals that although Canada has witnessed an increase in…
Whiteness and the politics of middle-class nation-building in Canada
In Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada, Jennifer Elrick maintains that Canada’s shift to an immigration admissions regime premised on human capital considerations was (a) spearheaded by high level bureaucrats, (b) did not eschew racial considerations (as is generally assumed) but rather recast them by moving from a biological to a class-based conceptualization of race and national ident…
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