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Michael S. Merry is professor of philosophy of education at the University of Amsterdam. I typically approach a variety of topics doing applied ethics. I also routinely engage in cross-national comparative research in which I examine a particular phenomenon from different cultural or national perspectives. I recently published a book about segregation, and approached this topic from a very different angle from how it normally is discussed in the literature. Consequently, I developed an alternative theory that I labeled Voluntary Separation. In this book I examine the subject of segregation using the liberal democratic principles of equality and citizenship before turning my attention to specific case studies in different national contexts. I defend a prima facie case for voluntary separation for members of stigmatized groups in the domain of education with the aim of promoting important forms of equality and citizenship for the groups in question.