The ethics of migration policy dilemmas
Overview
‘Dilemmas’ explores the ethical challenges in migration and refugee policy-making, focusing on the real-world dilemmas faced by policymakers and civil society.
While the growing field of political theory on migration has extensively examined topics like immigration rights, citizenship, and asylum obligations, ‘Dilemmas’ takes a fresh, bottom-up approach, tackling specific, under-explored policy challenges.
Explore the debates:
Use the tabs to the left to explore different policy debates that pose significant ethical dilemmas in migration policymaking. Each debate features:
- An open-access academic journal article that kicks off the debate
- Responses from several scholars and political actors from around the world
- A final response (or “rejoinder”) from the authors of the kick-off paper
Coordinators
‘Dilemmas’ is a joint initiative of the MPC and of the research project “Migration as Morality Politics” [PI Julia Mourão Permoser, Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) Grant V 743-G].
The project is coordinated by Martin Ruhs (MPC/EUI), Julia Mourão Permoser (Danube University Krems), Rainer Bauböck (EUI and Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Lukas Schmid (Goethe-University Frankfurt).
Latest news
4 December 2025: Mario Cunningham has published a new paper that discusses methodological issues of the Dilemmas approach.