Phil Triadafilopoulos
Affiliations
Joint Initiative in German and European Studies
American Political Science Association
Council for European Studies
Canadian Political Science Association
International Studies Association
Research Interests
How right-of-centre political parties are adapting to more culturally diverse electorates; Canadian 鈥渆xceptionalism鈥 in immigration politics and policymaking; the interplay of liberal openness and illiberal closure in the migration policies of industrialized liberal democracies; the politics of religious accommodation as regards Muslims in Canada and Germany; the changing meaning of skills in Canadian education policy; the dynamics of school choice policy in Canada.
Awards and Grants
Collaborator, Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF), 鈥淢igrant Integration in the mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides,鈥 (in collaboration with Anna Triandafyllidou, Principal Investigator) ($98,600,000), 2023-2030
Co-Investigator, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant (in collaboration with James Farney [PI]), 鈥淎ssessing the Financial, Governance, and Parental Feedback Effects of School Choice in Canada鈥 ($396,885), 2023-2028
Co-investigator, 澳门六合彩开奖接口 (UTSC) Clusters of Scholarly Prominence Program (in collaboration with Elizabeth Dhuey, Principal Investigator), 鈥淓ducation and Training for the 21st Century Workforce鈥 ($597,822), 2023-2028
Publications
Select Publications:
Books:
Segmented Cities? How Urban Contexts Shape Ethnic and Nationalist Politics (co-edited with Kristin Good and Luc Turgeon). Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014.
Wanted and Welcome? Policies for Highly Skilled Immigration in Comparative Perspective. New York: Springer, 2013.
Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Politics of Membership in Canada and Germany. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012.
Articles:
鈥淭he Domestic Politics of Selective Permeability: Disaggregating the Canadian Migration State鈥 (with Zack Taylor). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2023): .
鈥淲hiteness and the Politics of Middle-class Nation-building in Canada.鈥 Ethnic and Racial Studies (2022): DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2022.2139627
鈥淪chool Choice, Policy Feedback Effects, and Policy Outcomes: Understanding the Relationship between Government Policy Design and Parent Decisions to 鈥楽tay鈥 鈥楧efect鈥 from Public Education鈥 (co-authored with Salar Asadolahi, James Farney, and Linda A. White). Comparative Education 58, no. 2 (2022): pp. 242-259.
鈥淩eligious Groups, Liberal-Democratic States, and Competitive Boundary Making: The Debate over Ritual Male Circumcision in Germany鈥 Ethnicities VOL. 19, No. 4 (2019): pp. 654-673.
鈥淕ermany鈥檚 post-2015 Immigration Dilemmas,鈥 Current History VOL. 118, No. 806 (March 2019): pp. 114-119.
Book Chapters
鈥淕ood and Lucky: Explaining Canada鈥檚 Successful Immigration Policies.鈥 In Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Canada, ed. Michael Howlett et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
鈥淐anada: The Quintessential Migration State?鈥 (co-authored with Zack Taylor). In Understanding Global Migration, ed. James Hollifield and Neal Foley. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022.
鈥淧aradigms Lost? Immigrant Integration and its Discontents.鈥 In Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, 2nd Edition, ed Anna Triandafyllidou. London: Routledge, 2022.
鈥淭he Political Foundations of Canadian Exceptionalism in Immigration Policy鈥 (with Zack Taylor). In International Affairs and Canadian Migration Policy, ed. Yiagadeesen Samy and Howard Duncan. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Teaching Interests
Comparative Public Policy; Canadian Public Policy; Theories of Public Policy; Immigration and Citizenship Policy; Comparative Politics; Political Theory
Courses taught at UTSC:
- POLA01 Critical Issues in Politics: Migration, Membership and Identity
- PPGC67 Public Policy in Canada
- POLD41 Advanced Topics in Politics: Carl Schmitt
- POLD67 The Limits of Rationality
- PPGD68 Capstone: The Policy Process in Theory and Practice