Lukas Schmid

02 Publications

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. 2026 Between openness and resilience: rethinking citizenship in times of polycrisis Ethics & Global Politics, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 1–10 With E. M. Schäfferle
  2. 2025 Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 26–36 With M. Ruhs, R. Bauböck & J. Mourao Permoser
  3. 2024 Responding to critics In Bauböck, Mourao Permoser, Ruhs & Schmid, Debating Responses to Unauthorised Immigrant Residence, RSC Working Papers 2024/60, pp. 17–23
  4. 2024 Is Legitimate Exclusion Incompatible with the Sovereign Right to Exclude? American Journal of International Law, Unbound, Vol. 118, pp. 219–223
  5. 2024 Responding to Unauthorized Residence: On a Dilemma Between ‘Firewalls’ and Regularizations’ Comparative Migration Studies, Vol. 12, No. 22, pp. 1–18
  6. 2023 Colonial Injustice, Legitimate Authority, and Immigration Control European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 4–26 (2023/2025)
  7. 2022 Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule American Political Science Review, Vol. 116, No. 3, pp. 954–967
  8. 2022 Freedom-Amelioration, Transformative Change, and Emancipatory Orders European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 1378–1392
  9. 2021 Structural Injustice and Socially Undocumented Oppression: Changing Tides in Refugee and Immigration Ethics Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, Vol. 24, pp. 1047–1052
  10. 2021 Deportation, Harms, and Human Rights Ethics & Global Politics, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 98–109

Reviews & Public Writing

  1. 2026 Review of “Postcolonial Global Justice” by Shuk Ying Chan Journal of Development Studies, Online First
  2. 2021 Review of “Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?” by Christopher Bertram Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 202–205
  3. 2021 The Left Must Spearhead Immigration Justice What To Do About Now?

Work in Progress

  1. R&R A paper on border externalization, human rights, and sovereign responsibility
  2. — Should Egalitarians Want to Restrict Expat Residence?
  3. — Anti-Ideological Politics and Conceptual Change: Engineering a Better Society?
  4. — Hermeneutical Injustice, Conceptual Engineering, and Methodological Nationalism With Anna Milioni

Edited Volumes & Symposia

  1. 2026 “Citizenship in Times of Polycrisis,” Special Issue Ethics & Global Politics — with Eva-Maria Schäfferle
  2. 2025 “Ethical Dilemmas and Migration Policymaking,” Roundtable Ethics and International Affairs — with Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & Julia Mourao Permoser
  3. 2024 “Unsettling the Sovereign Right to Exclude,” Symposium American Journal of International Law, Unbound — Managing Editor (with Ayelet Shachar & Jaya Ramji-Nogales as Symposium Editors)

“The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas” — Discussion Fora, European University Institute RSC Working Papers (09/2021–ongoing, with Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & Julia Mourao Permoser):

  1. 1. Debating Regularisation of Irregular Migrants
  2. 2. Debating Restrictions on Emigration
  3. 3. Debating Search and Rescue of Migrants at Sea
  4. 4. Debating Temporary Labour Migration Policies
  5. 5. Debating Refugee Protection “Here or There”
  6. 6. Debating Responses to Unauthorised Immigrant Residence