It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. Sam and I have worked on this since we first put our heads together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we were writing and thinking. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...

Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer

Ukraine is in need of manpower in its war with Russia, but does it have the right to conscript its citizens? What are the philosophical arguments for it and do they hold? I argue that there is no obligation to die for the state: felixbender724201.substack.com/p/the-obliga...

What's the problem with small boats arriving in the UK? Loads of articles consider legal or political arguments, but few address the philosophical ones underpining this debate. Do any of them hold? Find out here: open.substack.com/pub/felixben...

I've written my first substack post on the value of university education. If you're interested, read it here. I'm new to substack, so please have mercy: felixbender724201.substack.com/p/why-study

Should rejected asylum seekers have a right to stay? Read the discussion between Leila Hadj Abdou, Eszter Kollar and myself to find out. Here is the original piece: comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10..... Here is my response: migrationpolicycentre.eu/wp-content/u...

My paper on climate change refugees now has now appeared in the current issue of the European Journal of Political Theory. You may read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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.

Very excited for this conference on Refuge and Displacement at the University of Oxford later this month and only slightly intimidated on being the only other person in a panel with David Miller. If anyone feels like attending, here is a link: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...

New publication!🚨Here, we critically examine the governance of humanitarian protection, showing how both gender-blind and gender-sensitive regimes often reinforce—rather than reduce—the vulnerabilities faced by forcibly displaced women. academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

📣 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

Today marks something of a milestone for me. 100 citations! What an achievement (though undoubtedly partially through self-citation).

Rainer Bauböck Essay Award. Go for it!

Another utter externalisation failure www.politico.eu/article/gior...

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Talk about a good end to the year: My paper "Morality in the Refugee Regime?" has been published today in Perspectives on Politics' last issue of the year. Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Künftig also Staatsbürgerschaft "auf Probe" - Menschen, die dt. Staatsbürgerschaft erhalten, müssen noch einmal 10 Jahre lang Angst haben, dass ihnen diese wieder entzogen wird. Was ist das bitte anderes als ein Instrument zur Unterordnung migrantisierter Menschen?! www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

JOB in our department! Assistant Professor in Political Science - Specialization in Political Economy of Finance Tenure track, University of Amsterdam vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assi...

Does anyone know of a good (!) AI detection software? I tried a few and get wildly different results (results range from 0% AI written, to over 90% for the same text). Which detection software / website do you use, or are they all useless?

I cannot stress enough how big this decision is. Al Kateb v Godwin allowed the Australian government to imprison people indefinitely even where they had committed no crime.

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Niklas Luhmann's death. The "Welt" published five short pieces on a remarkable life and career (if you read German): www.welt.de/kultur/artic...

Cabin crew: Is there a Dr on board? Me: I am a Dr Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701

Two political theory jobs in Melbourne Australia, one junior (lecturer) equivalent to asst prof and one senior (associate) equivalent to associate/full prof. Polisky PolTheory t.co/vufOxeZYOL

Two weeks left to submit your proposal for the Migration Politics Residential Fellowship! If you have a great idea for a research paper, submit your proposal - and come spend a week with us in Amsterdam or Glasgow to turn that great idea into a great paper. migrationpolitics.org/call-for-pap...

Ok, this is a cool initiative. One can publish here, the reviewer comments are publicly available, as are the responses, all the versions of a paper AND the reviewer names. Is this the future? Philosophers, would you consider submitting here? open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu

good questions: Horror movie or your PhD program? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cri...

Fits my experience.

Whoever thinks that the solution to any purported problems about migration is "larger scale deportation" has not understood neither the issue at hand, nor the possible solutions to that supposed problem...

We at @goodauth.bsky.social are excited to share this call for the Good Authority fellows program. Deadline is January 15. Application is brief. Please share! (And yes, in my mind, I'm calling it goodfellas.) goodauthority.org/news/good-au...

“Plumbing and philosophy are both activities that arise because elaborate cultures like ours have, beneath their surface, a fairly complex system which is usually unnoticed.” Mary Midgley

All you need to know about the speaker of the house in the us and it's candidates...

Clarity of writing very often reflects clarity of thought. When you see inscrutable text, particularly in your own field, there’s a good chance the authors didn’t truly understand it either

If you like something, don’t just like it, retweet it. Otherwise nobody sees it. Easiest way to find people is go through other’s followers lists. Also, I have spent the last two weeks trying to introduce everybody I know from before on my timeline, so you might find people there.

Die Migrationsgesellschaft verteidigen und unsere geteilte Welt neu erfinden. Berliner Erklärung zur Verteidigung der Migrationsgesellschaft: transformingsolidarities.net/de/news/berl...

Freshers' flu and covid are going around again. What are universities doing to protect students and staff? Have any unis reacted so far?

Substack seems to get more and more popular amongst academics. Do any of you have recommendations for substacks to follow? I'd prefer non-paid ones :-)

Hi friends, who do I follow on here? Send me your suggestions!