Anna Closas

Allocating time in asylum systems: a dilemma between efficacy and equal treatment - Comparative Migration Studies Comparative Migration Studies - The right to seek asylum is meant to offer protection to those suffering from persecution. Currently, numerous countries face severe delays in granting and...

Excited to see my paper out in Comparative Migration Studies!

Motivated by growing asylum backlogs, I ask: how should we allocate time to ensure asylum systems can fulfill their goal?

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory

Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis)

Submission deadline: January 31
Date: April 11
Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7...

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Grounding the diasporic turn in political theory: Meta-commitment, transnationalism, and political obligation by Kai Yui Samuel Chan and Anna Closas is now available in Early View. @samuelchan.bsky.social @closasanna.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/11/18/g...

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I am very excited that this article is out in the world!

"Habits of democracy: practices, mores, and neighborhood meetings in Paris" is now available online at the European Journal of Political Theory.

If you'd like to read it but lack access, let me know.
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🔴 Té sentit fer filosofia política?

🗽 Amb motiu de la publicació del primer manual de Filosofia Política en català (@edicionsub.bsky.social) analitzarem aquesta qüestió amb Sergi Morales, Elvira Riera, @perezlozano.bsky.social i @msanjaume.bsky.social

📅 16 de desembre (18.30h)

📍Ateneu Barcelonès

Pleased to be putting on Berkeley's first-ever Graduate Conference on Early Modern Political Thought (1400-1800)

Keynote: Alison McQueen (Stanford) @aejm.bsky.social
Submission deadline: January 10
Date: May 3
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Please circulate widely!