Michael Blake is professor of philosophy, public policy, and governance at the University of Washington, where he is jointly appointed to the Department of Philosophy and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. His work focuses on global justice and migration. His most recent book is Justice, Migration, & Mercy (2020). miblake@uw.edu
Rainer Bauböck held the chair in social and political theory at the European University Institute from 2007 to 2018 and is co-director of its Global Citizenship Observatory. He is also a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he chaired the Commission on Migration and Integration Research until 2024, and a guest professor at the Nationalism Studies Program of Central European University in Vienna. His research interests are in normative political theory and comparative research on democratic citizenship, European integration, migration, nationalism, and minority rights. He coordinates the Dilemmas initiative, based at the European University Institute, along with the other authors of his article in this issue. rainer.baubock@eui.eu
Elizabeth Collett is a migration policy expert with twenty years’ experience working with senior politicians and policymakers at the UN, EU, and national levels. From 2018 to 2023, she was special adviser to Director General António Vitorino of the International Organization for Migration, headquartered in Geneva, overseeing policy and strategy. Before this, she was the founding director of the Migration Policy Institute Europe in Brussels, where she produced evidence-based and practical policy research on immigration and immigrant inclusion, and served as the senior advisor to MPI’s Transatlantic Council on Migration. A member of Australia’s Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration, Collett holds a master’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University, and a bachelor’s degree in law from Oxford University. ecollett@migrationpolicy.org
Shannon Ford is senior lecturer in international relations at Curtin University in Perth, Australia where he is course coordinator for the International Relations/International Security graduate program. He is also a Board Member for the International Society of Military Ethics and an Honorary Fellow with the Defence and Security Institute, University of Western Australia. Before becoming an academic, Ford worked for the Australian Government as a senior intelligence analyst and strategic policymaker. Initially, he specialized in North Asian security issues and then later led collaborative strategic policy planning work in the Department of Defence. Shannon.Ford@curtin.edu.au
Mollie Gerver is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London, specializing in immigration ethics and theories of consent. mollie.gerver@kcl.ac.uk
Julia Mourão Permoser is professor of migration and integration in the Department for Migration and Globalisation at the University for Continuing Education Krems and PI of the project “Migration as Morality Politics” (www.migration-morality.com). Her current research focuses on political and societal polarization over migration, as well as on the ethical dimension of migration governance. She coordinates the Dilemmas initiative, based at the European University Institute, along with the other authors of her article in this issue. julia.mourao-permoser@donau-uni.ac.at
Martin Ruhs is professor of migration studies and director of research at the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Florence. Martin’s research focuses on the economics and politics of international migration, with a strong international comparative dimension. He coordinates the Dilemmas initiative, based at the European University Institute, along with the other authors of his article in this issue. martin.ruhs@eui.eu
Lukas Schmid is a political theorist working on the ethics and political theory of migration and migration control, and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Leibniz Research Group Transformations of Citizenship, part of the Research Center Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt. His doctoral dissertation, “Three Essays on the Legitimate Authority of Migration Control,” recently won the European Consortium for Political Research’s 2024 Jean Blondel PhD Prize for Best Thesis in Politics. He coordinates the Dilemmas initiative, based at the European University Institute, along with the other authors of his article in this issue. L.Schmid@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
Dietrich Thränhardt is professor emeritus at the University of Münster. He has published widely on comparative migration policies in Europe, North America, and Japan, including being the author of Europe, A New Immigration Continent: Policies and Politics in Comparative Perspective (LIT Verlag, 1996). dthraenhardt@gmail.com
Benjamin Zyla is full professor of peace and conflict studies at the University of Ottawa and director of the Peacebuilding and Local Knowledge Network. A political scientist by training, his research has focused on peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected societies, postconflict reconstruction, collective action problems of international (security) organizations, and qualitative methods. He has held teaching and research positions at Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Konstanz, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Stanford University, and the NATO Defense College, where his essay for this issue was written with generous funding from Canada’s Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security program. Benjamin.Zyla@uottawa.ca
