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...

The Way Out by Rebecca Buxton, Samuel Ritholtz - Hardcover

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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

Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’

Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...

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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...

The Obligation to Die: Ukraine and whether Military Conscription can be Defended

Ukraine is in desperate need of manpower in its war with Russia, but does it have the right to conscript its citizens? What are the philosophical arguments for conscription and do they hold? This arti...

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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...

What's the issue with small boats arriving in the UK? Philosophical arguments

Every other day, a few small boats carrying asylum seekers arrive at the shores of the UK.

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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

Why study?

The value of a university education

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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....

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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.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last yr.

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs - Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy - @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social

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...

Refuge and displacement

Forced displacement and refugee protection are among the most pressing moral and political challenges of our time. This workshop aims to explore how normative and empirical approaches can meaningfully...

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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

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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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!

GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌍 Calling all early-career #Citizenship researchers! ✍️✨ Submit your entry for the 2025 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆 The❓How will geopolitics affect future citizenship laws and policies? 🌐💡 🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖 📝 3,000 words 📅 Deadline: 31 March 2025 Full details ➡️ t.ly/cbRd_

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

Meloni’s Albanian migrant detention centers are now ghost towns

The much-touted solution to Europe’s migration crisis houses only Italian police — who have taken to adopting stray dogs and sunbathing.

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VOLUME 22 ISSUE 4 IS NOW OUT!! buff.ly/2KtaS5j buff.ly/3BRKBxG Incl. work by @briantylercohen.bsky.social @tompepinsky.com @felixbender.bsky.social @nilskupzok.bsky.social k.bsky.social @francescayton.bsky.social jongreen.bsky.social ..

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...

Einbürgerung: Ampel will schriftliches Bekenntnis zu Deutschlands Verantwortung für NS-Unrecht ver...

Die Gespräche in der Ampelkoalition zur Reform des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts waren vor einer Woche noch gescheitert. Jetzt gibt es eine Lösung – auch beim Thema Antisemitismus.

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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

Details : Lecturer / Senior Lecturer - Social and Political Sciences (Multiple Positions) : The Univ...

Careers at The University of Melbourne

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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...

Call for papers: 2024 author fellowship in residence

The editorial team of the journal Migration Politics warmly welcome paper proposals for our authors’ fellowship in residence programme. We are seeking submissions from scholars conducting innovative...

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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.

Ben Rosamond@benrosamond1.bsky.social · 3y ago

Research news 👀

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...

Announcing the Good Authority fellows program

Apply by Jan. 15, 2024 for the Good Authority fellowship and be a regular contributor to our blog on politics and political science.

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