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Speranta Dumitru
@spe07.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science
Research on Abolition of passports, Free Movement, Political theory, Migration studies
University Paris Cité @upcite.bsky.social
https://u-paris.academia.edu/SperantaDumitru

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · Jan 13
On #immigration, true #cosmopolitans should argue that states violating people’s right to #free movement should either be sentenced, or owe compensations to the people harmed, or that States deserve #amnesty
Why has nobody ever considered these positions?

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The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field?
Abstract. Methodological nationalism is the assumption that nation-states are the relevant units for analyzing social phenomena. Most of the social science
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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 3d
"Speaking in English, and reaching a US audience directly, he reiterated the Catholic belief that every Christian will ultimately be judged on how they welcomed "the foreigner".

Oh, wait: there is no such thing as "christian nationalism" 🤔😇
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Pope Leo offers his strongest criticism of Trump yet
The Pope, who is American, called for "deep reflection" on how migrants are treated, and spoke against US bombing of Venezuelan vessels.
www.bbc.com

Reposted by Will Jennings, Speranţa Dumitru

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Kaitlin Tosh @kaitlintosh.bsky.social · 3d
For nine months, the formidable @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social and I have been investigating if X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. Our findings suggest it does: news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 5d
Imagine a country where hundreds of thousands of legal permanent residents find stripped of their status and forced to reapply for their right to remain. Many no longer meet the criteria, plunged into illegality, subject to deportation.
@emile-chabal.bsky.social

foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...
Britain Is Having the World’s Most Extreme Immigration Debate
The British discourse makes even the Trump administration look moderate.
foreignpolicy.com

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 14d
I strongly opposed framing #women 's migration as #CareDrain & loss to children left behind because

1️⃣it relies on sexist #stereotypes
2️⃣devalues #care work
3️⃣prevents us from understanding #skills in #migration

But metaphors are stronger than arguments 🏋️‍♀️

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From “brain drain” to “care drain” : Women's labor migration and methodological sexism
The metaphor of “care drain” has been created as a womanly parallel to the “brain drain” idea. Just as “brain drain” suggests that the skilled migrant…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 22d
Désolée, mon intention n'était pas offensante, juste descriptive: en Roumanie, la pression religieuse est devenue si grande que le nouveau président mathématicien a dû se marier avec sa partenaire (et on lui demande si les enfants sont baptisés etc.). Si c'est un effet boomerang, apprendre & éviter

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 22d
L'effet boomerang des politiques à la Ceausescu peut avoir une force insoupçonnée.

Reposted by Lusine Grigoryan, Alessandro Rigolon

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · Oct 9
30%: #Immigrants are overrepresented amongst #Nobel winners 🏆
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Oct 5
Tories really pushing to regain the racist votes back from Reform.

Most people become undocumented thorough no fault of their own. Other countries have shown that policies which make it easier for undocumented migrants to regularise their status are better for everyone.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan
The party unveils new policies on illegal migration as its annual conference begins in Manchester.
www.bbc.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Oct 2
The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.

The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism

archive.ph/TFZY9
There is a more pressing issue. Ministers must ensure that the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived in the so-called Boriswave of 2020-21 are not automatically absorbed into the permanent population. They are about to cross the the five-year threshold into ILR, yet Labour continues to dither. Ms Mahmood must freeze the status of this huge cohort while a new residency regime is finalised. A million or more extra permanent residents in these islands, let in on the nod, is simply unacceptable. Finally, the home secretary must acquaint herself, and the public, with an accurate estimate of the actual number of foreign nationals living here, what taxes they pay and what services they consume. Without hard data, all the political parties are fumbling around in the dark.

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · Sep 30
Trade policy is not gender neutral
Beyond trade wars: women garment workers bear the brunt of US tariff recalibration
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Beyond trade wars: women garment workers bear the brunt of US tariff recalibration
In the latest "This Week in Macroeconomics", Research Fellow Prachi Agarwal exposes a critical consequence of US trade policy: its disproportionate impact on women’s livelihoods across Least Developed...
odi.org

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · Sep 28
So exhausting..

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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · Sep 25
Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'ESR :
participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co...
Les marchés publics de voyagistes - Contributions - 2025 - Aidez-nous à enrichir notre programme de travail - Plateforme de participation de la Cour des Comptes
Corps de la contributionLes administrations et opérateurs publics, notamment ceux de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, fond appel à des agences de voyage (FCM, TravelPlanet…) pour l'hôtelle...
participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · Sep 12
“According to a thinktank, the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, violence against those in US political life in the four years to 2024 was nearly triple the number of incidents in the previous 25 years combined.”

theconversationuk.cmail20.com/t/r-e-tkejii...

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Xavier Molénat

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · Sep 11
Work permits are a moral anomaly: they should be abolished

- or so I argue in this v short paper

shs.cairn.info/revue-france...

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · Sep 11
Thank you for initiating and managing such a huge project! You are both so courageous and the book is so important for our community! 🙏😍

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Benjamin Boudou @bboudou.bsky.social · Sep 11
Happy publication day @aureliabardon.bsky.social!
➡️ www.larcier-intersentia.com/fr/theorie-p...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 6
The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.

Join us.
A hoard of people march in the streets with protest signs. Even in heels, I am too short to properly show the massive scale of the crowd.

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · Sep 5
Thanks 🙏

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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · Sep 5
... as a safeguard for the ordre public and/or welfare state. With this in mind, it seems justifiable not to have fully open borders right now.

But from a cosmopolitan normative point of view, it is clearly not the opening of borders that requires specific justification, but keeping them closed. ⬇️

Reposted by Speranţa Dumitru

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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · Sep 5
I've argued in a little blog post (in German) back in 2013 that, in the long run, there is no good argument to have free movement at a national or European, but not at a global level.

But even some national constitutions connect free movement to certain conditions ... ⬇️
Lampedusa, die EU-Außengrenzen und das globale Recht auf Freizügigkeit
Ein Blog über die Demokratie in Europa
www.foederalist.eu

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · Aug 22
I heard that Habermas refused to associated his name. I don't know if it is for the same reason.
I'll look deeper into the article's details.

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · Aug 22
A LLM called the #Habermas Machine helped small UK groups find common ground while discussing divisive pol issues as #Brexit #immigration minimum wage climate change & childcare.
Compared w humans, AI mediators - wider agreement & left groups less divided.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation
Finding agreement through a free exchange of views is often difficult. Collective deliberation can be slow, difficult to scale, and unequally attentive to different voices. In this study, we trained a...
www.science.org

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · Aug 22
Chat GPT found this from an interview with a Philipp Felsch and his book on Habermas. The exact quote is "Europe, the West, communicative reason, the overcoming of war as a means of politics — everything he fought for is now being lost 'step by step'
www.philomag.de/artikel/habe...
Habermas versteht die Welt nicht mehr
Jürgen Habermas‘ Denkweg schien abgeschlossen: Von Marx über Hegel zu Kant, vom Umsturz der Verhältnisse zur Revolution der Denkungsart. Doch nun kommen ihm Zweifel.
www.philomag.de

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 10
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

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People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · Aug 8
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · Aug 5
Even so, it is difficult to answer the question "Do you think there are more recent immigrants staying in the UK illegally than legally?" with "more illegally".
Wondering why so many people answered like this...

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · Aug 5
Almost half of Britons (47%) think there are more migrants staying in the UK illegally than legally

Estimates of illegal migrants range from 120,000 to 1.3 million, with Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf putting the figure at 1.2 million.

Foreign-born =10.7 million

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law, Ben H. Ansell , and 11 more

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · Aug 5
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

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ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social · Jul 30
📚 Call for Book Chapters
Handbook of Skilled Migration (Edward Elgar, 2027)
Edited by #VerenaWisthaler & #AbdeslamMarfouk

🔍 Focus: Skilled migration & the Global South 🌍
🗓️ Abstracts due: Sept 30, 2025
🔗 More info: www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

#MigrationStudies #CFP #SkilledMigration
Call for Book Chapter: Handbook of Skilled Migration
Eurac Research is a private research center​ based in Bozen-Bolzano. Our researchers come from a wide variety of scientific fields and all parts of the world.
www.eurac.edu

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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · Jul 23
Should You Choose to Live Forever?

#philsky

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Should You Choose to Live Forever?
Should You Choose to Live Forever? is one of the newest entries in Routledge’s excellent “Little Debates about Big Questions” series, ...
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