Speranta Dumitru
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Speranta Dumitru
@spe07.bsky.social

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

Political science 61%
Sociology 20%
Pinned
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?

academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
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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📢 𝗡𝗼𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗲́𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲
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📊 𝗥𝗲́𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘀
- Les 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰̧𝘂𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗶𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀 en retour que les comptes blancs.
- 𝗔𝘂𝗰𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲́𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗶𝘁𝗲 : la discrimination est transversale.
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

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This is leadership, especially in these dire times when migrants are used as an easy punchbag from all sides of the political spectrum.
Este video de Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón está dando vueltas al mundo sin parar. Pues que siga girando...¡BLUESKY, HAZ TU MAGIA! #AhoraMásQueNunca España defiende los derechos humanos. ✊🏻🌹

🇪🇺 The free movement of people, goods and services is perceived as the EU's most positive result by a majority of EU citizens from all member states, with 3 exceptions. 🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷

France 🇫🇷 has the lowest level of support for this position.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
Sickening
Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.

He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.

Notice the suppressors
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Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.

He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.

Notice the suppressors
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damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

Quelle catastrophe!
Au moins "name and shame" les avocats qui hallucinent avec #IA
Énièmes tribulations de l’IA en justice : Une requête cite des jurisprudences... totalement inventées.

Le juge administratif tance l'avocat.

Et l'invite « à vérifier à l'avenir que les références trouvées par quelque moyen que ce soit ne constituent pas une "hallucination" ou une "confabulation"»…
A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.
Énièmes tribulations de l’IA en justice : Une requête cite des jurisprudences... totalement inventées.

Le juge administratif tance l'avocat.

Et l'invite « à vérifier à l'avenir que les références trouvées par quelque moyen que ce soit ne constituent pas une "hallucination" ou une "confabulation"»…

L'origine n'a pas beaucoup d'importance mais c'est effrayant. C'est le même pari qu'a fait Poutine, que personne ne se battra pour Ukraine. Ou dans le Moyen Orient...

I argued here that one possibility is preferential hiring for migrants (just like for other underrepresented minorities) 😇
academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
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
academic.oup.com

Le réalisateur américain Jim Jarmusch va faire une demande pour obtenir la nationalité française

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Le réalisateur américain Jim Jarmusch va faire une demande pour obtenir la nationalité française
"Je voudrais avoir un autre endroit où je puisse m'évader des États-Unis", a-t-il expliqué vendredi sur France Inter.
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We should not expect them to understand that refusing a visa is usually an act of hostility, should we?

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Clear evidence that employers rate workers with foreign-sounding accents as having lower verbal and math skills.

This gap persists even when employers are provided with explicit performance signals.

Le programme TV pendant le communisme était juste incroyable.

Aujourd'hui, 22 décembre, on fête 36 ans de la chute du #communisme en #Roumanie.

#Europe #Liberté

The #TV schedule planned for 22 December 1989, had a revolution not changed the regime, was simply #incredible.

#Romania #communism #Europe #freedom
Department of Homeland Security continues its war on Christmas by suggesting the season is about deporting immigrants. In a new frenetic video, they make it seem like Christmas celebrations are for mass deportations. Christians should be offended, especially by inclusion of Nativity scene!

Out of 102 episodes globally in which a trend toward autocracy was reversed over the past century, the vast majority led to restored or even increased levels of democracy.

doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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New to @ssrn.bsky.social, I just posted the Forgotten Fundamental Right to Free Movement, 119 Nw. U. L. Rev. 811 (2025). In this, I argue that free movement -- intrastate, interstate, and international -- is a fundamental constitutional right. 1/7

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The Forgotten Fundamental Right to Free Movement
There is a powerful fundamental right hiding in plain sight: the fundamental right to free movement. This right goes beyond the consistently acknowledged—though
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I just published a Cambridge Elements that offers a critical overview of recent work in epistocracy, Confucian meritocracy, and democratic theories of meritocracy. Free to download for the next two weeks. URL: t.co/Z5BOYrCRGF.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/political-meritocracy-in-the-21st-century/AACAB43634DBE4476BD4F2E6A1C78298?utm_date=20251128&utm_id=1764310759&utm_campaign=CLAS,Elements,Humanities,IOC&utm_sou...
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Separating parents from children, even in the middle of a natural disaster. Shabana Mahmood's Home Office is the same as Suella Braverman's Home Office, is the same as the one that gave us the Windrush scandal
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com

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Ce soir, à Strasbourg, l’assemblée constitutive de la "Europa Power Initiative" lancée par @europanova.bsky.social et soutenue par de nombreux acteurs politiques et sociaux a adopté la Déclaration de Strasbourg, appelant l'Europe a assumer pleinement sa puissance.
europanova.eu/2025/11/27/d...
DECLARATION OF STRASBOURG
Declaration of StrasbourgTélécharger Déclaration de StrasbourgTélécharger Dichiarazione di StrasburgoTélécharger Strasburger ErklaerungTélécharger
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Thanks, I agree

The distinction between #mild & #heavy #bias is intuitive

Imagine people discussing some principle while referring only to men They are biased but less than if they spent their time arguing it can't apply to women

Now, replace men/women with citizens/ #immigrants

academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
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
academic.oup.com
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
The EU's Court of Justice has confirmed that beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU must be allowed to apply for other forms of protection.

Analysis of the judgment, by Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/11/misr...
EU Law Analysis
Misreading the Temporary Protection Directive? The CJEU sets the record straight on access to subsidiary protection in Framholm (C-195/25)...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com