Speranta Dumitru
Associate Professor of Political Science
Research on Abolition of passports, Free Movement, Political theory, Migration studies
University Paris Cité @upcite.bsky.social
u-paris.academia.edu/SperantaDumitru
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- 🇪🇺 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.
- Reposted by Speranta DumitruMamdani: "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."
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- Reposted by Speranta Dumitrudamn -- 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
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- Quelle catastrophe! Au moins "name and shame" les avocats qui hallucinent avec #IA
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- Le réalisateur américain Jim Jarmusch va faire une demande pour obtenir la nationalité française share.google/qRNjsQrAgODV...
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- 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
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- Dehumanization english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-...
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- 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...
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- Reposted by Speranta DumitruI 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
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- "Core protection" is bad news for refugees in the UK - by Cris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social "What will now be tested is whether those core Labour supporters are willing to tolerate policies so openly hostile to their professed values." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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- "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...
- 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...
- 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...
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- Trade policy is not gender neutral Beyond trade wars: women garment workers bear the brunt of US tariff recalibration odi.org/en/insights/...
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- Work permits are a moral anomaly: they should be abolished - or so I argue in this v short paper shs.cairn.info/revue-france...
- Reposted by Speranta DumitruIn October 2023, @bboudou.bsky.social offered me to co-edit a handbook on political theory with him. The publisher wanted it published by September 2025. I thought it was a joke. Benjamin did not. Today, we are very happy to announce the publication of Théorie Politique!
- Happy publication day @aureliabardon.bsky.social! ➡️ www.larcier-intersentia.com/fr/theorie-p...
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- 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/...
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- 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 Speranta DumitruNew YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
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- "It was recognized that the right of #emigration, affirmed above, would not be effective without facilities for #immigration into and transit through other countries. The Working Group recommends that (...) members of the United Nations cooperate in providing such facilities" 1947 Comm Hum Rights
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- A #Avignon, adapter Adolphe de Benjamin #Constant avec une femme comme protagoniste c'est l'idée merveilleuse de Dominique Scheer-Hazeman qui nous émeut seule en scène pendant une heure.
- Gianfranco Berardi est à #Avignon avec #Hamlet take away, une pièce troublante de Gabriella Consolari sur le théâtre, l'amour et les doutes existentiels à l'époque des likes. Si vous êtes au premier rang, vous pouvez faire un selfie avec l'artiste. 🎭 www.theatres-luna.fr/spectacle/ha...
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- "Nothing polishes [people] more than #travel, so it is not wise to forbid Subjects to travel to foreign countries on the pretext that such journeys take too much money out of the country. However polished a country may be, it's impossible to have all Sciences, Arts, Trades Bielfeld (1760) Instit pol
- "The Sovereign must oblige his people, even in spite of themselves, to give #strangers a warm welcome, to show #hospitality to travellers, and to be affable, honest and polite to everyone." Bielfeld (1760) Institutions politiques
- Very interesting book - or, at least, Introduction - on the #migration of #philosophers in the 1930-1940s to the USA. They founded or influenced various schools from logical positivism to phenomenology and Frankfurt school - ed. @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
- #IMISCOE conference Decentring the ethics of #migration: #Freedom of movement (Part 1 Theory) Tue July 1, 13:00–14:30, Session #12 panel | reflex studies Room: Salle 0.016, Bâtiment Recherche Sud with @crookedfootball.bsky.social & Sylvie Loriaux
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- Hiring people to hunt migrants for $1000 each Same day, a reputed journal from the same country rejected my paper because an author I mentioned in passing doesn't support the states' "right to exclude immigrants" but the demos' right to exclude them. Not a big deal? Now, that we have a video... 😱
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- Today, #Rawls in the #philosophy Baccalaureate exam in France, with a passage on the value of political freedom, written before social media. IMO, Subject 2 suggests an objection to Rawls' view (and Mill's).
- HELP: Trying to find a more reliable #source for this exclamation attributed to the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II that Ferdinand of Spain cannot be called wise if he expelled people. Tried in Nomologia o discursos legales by Imanuel Aboab but can't read easily 😶 Does anyone know?
- In 18th century #polsci Q: How to attract foreigners to a country 🇮🇹 Donato (1767) Homme d'Etat "Powerful lures" are "excellent academies and universities; freedom of life; the affability and politeness of the people; accuracy and promptness in the administration of justice; good policing 1/2
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- "WHILE intolerance deprives a state of useful subjects, it also prevents it from taking advantage of favorable opportunities to attract foreigners." Malesherbes (1721-1794) Pensées et maximes (recueillies pas E.L)
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- "Isn't it strange that enlightened men have convinced themselves & others that those who have taken their property & restricted their liberties are their friends &associates? And that innocent, peaceful people, who, at the other end of world, never disturbed them are their enemies?" Baudeau (1771)
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