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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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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
1/2
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

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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
europanova.eu

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

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In case you missed it: Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: “Restoring Order and Control” | Sonia Lenegan
Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: "Restoring Order and Control" - Free Movement
Following a plethora of media briefings and coverage over the past few days, the Home Secretary has officially published her policy paper on "Restoring Order
freemovement.org.uk

"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...
Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
www.lrb.co.uk

"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