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
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
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
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...
Why has nobody ever considered these positions?
academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
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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...
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
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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...
Analysis of the judgment, by Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/11/misr...
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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
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Travel rights (which are reasonably robust, if regularly overlooked) can provide a bulwark against these sorts of anti-travel provisions. I wrote about this in Travel Rights in a Culture War, 101 Tex. L. Rev. O. 21 (2022),
texaslawreview.org/travel-right.... But litigants need to assert them!
texaslawreview.org/travel-right.... But litigants need to assert them!
April 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Travel rights (which are reasonably robust, if regularly overlooked) can provide a bulwark against these sorts of anti-travel provisions. I wrote about this in Travel Rights in a Culture War, 101 Tex. L. Rev. O. 21 (2022),
texaslawreview.org/travel-right.... But litigants need to assert them!
texaslawreview.org/travel-right.... But litigants need to assert them!
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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...
- 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
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"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...
- 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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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
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In case you missed it: Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: “Restoring Order and Control” | Sonia Lenegan
"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...
- 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
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"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...
- 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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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
news.sky.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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-...
"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...
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
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"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...
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...
@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
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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...
@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...
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
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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...
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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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...
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
academic.oup.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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...
Why has nobody ever considered these positions?
academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
October 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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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...
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
October 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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...
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...
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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
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
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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...
- or so I argue in this v short paper
shs.cairn.info/revue-france...
September 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Work permits are a moral anomaly: they should be abolished
- or so I argue in this v short paper
shs.cairn.info/revue-france...
- or so I argue in this v short paper
shs.cairn.info/revue-france...
Trade policy is not gender neutral
Beyond trade wars: women garment workers bear the brunt of US tariff recalibration
odi.org/en/insights/...
Beyond trade wars: women garment workers bear the brunt of US tariff recalibration
odi.org/en/insights/...
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
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Trade policy is not gender neutral
Beyond trade wars: women garment workers bear the brunt of US tariff recalibration
odi.org/en/insights/...
Beyond trade wars: women garment workers bear the brunt of US tariff recalibration
odi.org/en/insights/...
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watch this.
September 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
watch this.
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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...
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
September 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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...
participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co...
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“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...
theconversationuk.cmail20.com/t/r-e-tkejii...
September 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“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...
theconversationuk.cmail20.com/t/r-e-tkejii...
Work permits are a moral anomaly: they should be abolished
- or so I argue in this v short paper
shs.cairn.info/revue-france...
- or so I argue in this v short paper
shs.cairn.info/revue-france...
September 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Work permits are a moral anomaly: they should be abolished
- or so I argue in this v short paper
shs.cairn.info/revue-france...
- or so I argue in this v short paper
shs.cairn.info/revue-france...
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In 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!
Today, we are very happy to announce the publication of Théorie Politique!
September 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
In 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!
Today, we are very happy to announce the publication of Théorie Politique!
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The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.
Join us.
Join us.
September 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.
Join us.
Join us.
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... 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. ⬇️
But from a cosmopolitan normative point of view, it is clearly not the opening of borders that requires specific justification, but keeping them closed. ⬇️
September 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
... 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. ⬇️
But from a cosmopolitan normative point of view, it is clearly not the opening of borders that requires specific justification, but keeping them closed. ⬇️
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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 ... ⬇️
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
September 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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 ... ⬇️
But even some national constitutions connect free movement to certain conditions ... ⬇️
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/...
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
August 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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/...
Compared w humans, AI mediators - wider agreement & left groups less divided.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...