Philipp Lutz is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands). In 2019, he earned a PhD from the University of Bern studying the migration policy-making of liberal democracies. Previously, he has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence and a program director of the Swiss foreign policy think-tank 'foraus'. His main research interest lies in understanding the political consequences of international migration and covers comparative politics as well as international governance.