‘Net migration targets won’t solve Australia’s temporary migration problem’ is one of the conclusions highlighted in a report by the Australian National University’s Migration Hub. Report author and former COMPAS colleague Alan Gamlen and Emeritus Professor Peter McDonald explore the findings.⬇️

Important work documenting the scale of the impact of ending birthright citizenship: "we project 41 “unauthorized” births per 1,000 unauthorized Asians, compared with 17 “unauthorized” births per 1,000 among Latinos."

Please join us for our next Harney lecture, Who Thrives in Canada? Health, Prosperity, and Inequality Across Communities, Tuesday April 7, 5-7pm. We have an all-star panel but only a few seats left, so please register soon! For details and registration, see: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/who-th...

Our next Harney lecture will feature the launch The Way Out: Justice in The Queer Search for Refuge, by Prof. Rebecca Buxton & Dr. Samuel Ritholtz. Friday March 27, 2026, 4-6 PM, Munk School, Boardroom, 315 Bloor St. West. For details and registration click: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/book-l...

If you’re wondering what the big deal is about Jürgen Habermas (who died yesterday), or if you’ve never heard of him until now, you’re not going to learn much from the short newspaper obituaries, which are focusing on more on what he said about current events than his philosophy. 1/

Our next Harney lecture featuring Prof. Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law) is this Thursday March 12, 5-7pm, 315 Bloor Street West. We are almost at capacity, so please register as soon as possible. For details & registration visit: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/immigr...

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Please join us for our next Harney lecture featuring Prof. Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law), Thursday March 12, 5-7pm, 315 Bloor Street West. Seats are going fast, so please register soon. For details & registration visit: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/immigr...

The University of Texas System has passed a set of rules regulating the teaching of "controversy." The administration of each university in the system gets to decide what constitutes controversy. I've published an op-ed in the Austin Statesman respoonding.

The Harney Lecture Series is proud to present Prof. Audrey Macklin, "Immigration Exceptionalism and the Dual State" Thursday March 12, 5:00 - 7:00PM, Munk School, Boardroom, 315 Bloor St. West, Toronto Register: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/6468/r... Details: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/immigr...

TODAY! Harney Lecture with Prof. Ashwini Vasanthakumar,Thursday February 26, 4-6pm. Registration: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/6421/r... Details: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/gratef...

REMINDER: Our next Harney Lecture with Prof. Ashwini Vasanthakumar is this Thursday February 26, 4-6pm. This is an in-person only event, so please register asap (there are only a few seats left!): munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/6421/r... For more details see: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/gratef...

Please join us for our next Harney Lecture with Prof. Ashwini Vasanthakumar on Thursday February 26, 4-6pm. For details and registration, click: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/gratef.... Please register as soon as possible as space is limited.

This Thursday! Join us for a panel discussion on "What Happened to Canada’s Immigration Policy? Assessing Responsibility and Weighing Solutions." Details and registration here: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/what-h...

What Happened to Canada’s Immigration Policy? Assessing Responsibility and Weighing Solutions January 22, 2026, 5:00PM - 7:00PM Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 315 Bloor St. West, Toronto Please see the link below for details & registration: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/what-h...

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...

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?

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

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.

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... 🧵👇

Congratulations, Dr. Trevor Reichman. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...

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/

Highly recommended. Great work by Front Burner host Jayme Poisson and guest David Rennie of The Economist. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...

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

New from me, with a bonus Simpsons analogy!

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.

📣 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

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.

It's a reasonable question, but what, exactly, would be the alternative? #Germany #Merz

Powerful stuff from @sproudfoot.bsky.social

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.”

Other countries are going to start posting US travel advisories

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.

Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of Grapes

the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs

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...

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.

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...

Today! If you’re interested in what President Trump’s executive orders on borders, asylum, DEI, and more mean for Canada, and how Canadian leaders should respond, please register and join our all-star panel this afternoon, 4-6pm, at the Munk School. Register via the link below.

Tomorrow! Please register today as space is limited. munkschool.utoronto.ca/sites/defaul...

Please be sure to register—for those attending in person, space is limited.

The incoming Trump administration has made migration and border control central issues--how should Canada respond? Join us for an wide ranging discussion featuring an outstanding panel of experts. A must for anyone interested in Canada-US relations! munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/tensio...

A terrific column on why all or even a substantial portion of archives will never be digitized and why writing serious books will continue to take years, involve analog work, stay material, deserve funds and institutional respect. contingentmagazine.org/2019/03/25/m...

Die Welt is a very conservative newspaper. For its opinion editor to resign over an op-ed means all sorts of red lines have been crossed. The AfD is not just a right-wing party. It is so extreme that even figures like France’s Le Pen and Italy’s Salvini won’t work with it

Hey good lookin, what's cookin? That's right, the @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social SPRING/SUMMER 20205 catalogue and it is smoking! 🌶️ www.mqup.ca/filebin/cata...

An important commentary on Canada’s broken temporary foreign worker programs by Professor Jenna Hennerby. theconversation.com/the-temporar...