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 “exceptionalism” 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), “Migrant Integration in the mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides,” (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]), “Assessing the Financial, Governance, and Parental Feedback Effects of School Choice in Canada” ($396,885), 2023-2028

Co-investigator, University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) Clusters of Scholarly Prominence Program (in collaboration with Elizabeth Dhuey, Principal Investigator), “Education and Training for the 21st Century Workforce” ($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:

“The Domestic Politics of Selective Permeability: Disaggregating the Canadian Migration State” (with Zack Taylor). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2269785.

“Whiteness and the Politics of Middle-class Nation-building in Canada.” Ethnic and Racial     Studies (2022): DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2022.2139627 

“School Choice, Policy Feedback Effects, and Policy Outcomes: Understanding the Relationship between Government Policy Design and Parent Decisions to ‘Stay’ ‘Defect’ from Public Education” (co-authored with Salar Asadolahi, James Farney, and Linda A. White). Comparative Education 58, no. 2 (2022): pp. 242-259.

“Religious Groups, Liberal-Democratic States, and Competitive Boundary Making: The Debate over Ritual Male Circumcision in Germany” Ethnicities VOL. 19, No. 4 (2019):  pp. 654-673.

“Germany’s post-2015 Immigration Dilemmas,” Current History VOL. 118, No. 806 (March 2019): pp. 114-119.

Book Chapters

“Good and Lucky: Explaining Canada’s Successful Immigration Policies.” In Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Canada, ed. Michael Howlett et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

“Canada: The Quintessential Migration State?” (co-authored with Zack Taylor). In Understanding Global Migration, ed. James Hollifield and Neal Foley. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022.

“Paradigms Lost? Immigrant Integration and its Discontents.” In Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, 2nd Edition, ed Anna Triandafyllidou. London: Routledge, 2022.

“The Political Foundations of Canadian Exceptionalism in Immigration Policy” (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