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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🥁 #Histoire de la liberté de circulation #Freedom of movement in the long run ✅ journals.openedition.org/chrhc/27766 - new from @cahiers-histoire.bsky.social ✨ w key international authors Gagliardi 🇮🇹 Salamanca 🇨🇴 Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Simoncini🇫🇷 Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social 🇪🇺

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Influential = someone expressing anti-immigration & woke ideas to "explain" Trump's election

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A Fictional #Ceuta Summit What #Vitoria would tell #Sánchez about #migration - my summer blog post #humanrights #history #fiction #immigration #16th crookedtimber.org/2026/08/18/c...

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Surprising, but not new: Migrant women are more highly educated than migrant men (and sometimes, than native women) The trend was already present in 2017

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

How to attract immigrants? - incredible question and numerous policies recommended by 17-18th c. economists read my new article How to Attract Immigrants? Pull Factors in Past Theories link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Il y a 20 ans, un ministre de #droite (merci @xavierbertrand.bsky.social) voulait sanctionner les médecins refusant de soigner les pauvres et les sans-papiers. 20 years ago, a right-wing French minister wanted to penalise doctors who refused to treat the poor and undocumented immigrants.

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Guess who was most opposed to the Channel Tunnel in 1986? Women, the elderly, the far right, and those who believed the European Community was a bad thing. #EU #History #Opinion #UK

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Almost the same result in Gallup survey

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Public opinion is weird. In 1986, Eurobarometer asked #Europeans whether the construction of a Channel Tunnel, decided by the #British and #French governments, was a good or a bad thing. Guess who said a bad thing?

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Pour ou contre la reconnaissance d'une citoyenneté européenne et l'attribution d'un #passeport européen à tous les citoyens des pays membres de la Communauté européenne? (Eurobaromètre sept. 1975) #EU #History

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Should one progress towards the political union of Europe? ~80% YES in the six Member States in 1975 #eu

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

"Le zélote brûle l'hérétique pour des doctrines inoffensives pour lui & la société; le monopoliste avide détruit les fruits qu'il ne peut dévorer; le natif asocial exclut l'étranger des terres incultes qu'il ne peut cultiver." Anonymous (1751) Some Thoughts upon a Bill for General Naturalization

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

🇪🇺 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.

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

30%: #Immigrants are overrepresented amongst #Nobel winners 🏆 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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 · 05/08/2025

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...

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"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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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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.

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

"It is good for Subjects of any state to #travel; but for Artists, & certain Manufacturers, it should even be #ordered. I do not believe it is possible to become an excellent Musician, Painter, Sculptor, Fabric Maker &c. without having seen France & Italy." Bielfeld en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_F...

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

"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

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

"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

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Decentring the ethics of migration: Freedom of movement (Part 2 Applications) Wed July 2, 09:00–10:30, Session #72 panel | reflex studies Room: Online room 2 Chair @alexsager.bsky.social with @bboudou.bsky.social & Zoe Perko

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

#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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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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).

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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?

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

climate; the ease with which foreigners are admitted to the exercise of arts & trades, rewards if introduce new ones ; the ease they are admitted to government employment & office Rome as the glorious homeland of all nations. Donato (1767) L'homme d'Etat (FR transl of Uomo di governo 1753)

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

"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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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

"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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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I mentioned Walzer because he was the first. I hesitated to add D. Miller. For D. Miler, I once counted the number of his citations in articles on ethics of immigration in 10 journals academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I've written a little tribute to #Francis and the Christian ethics of #immigration Philosophers have neither voters to attract like politicians, nor believers to bring to church like Popes: Why are Popes far more progressive than philosophers on migration? crookedtimber.org/2025/04/26/p...

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Francisco de Vitoria (1539) It was permissible from the beginning of the world for anyone to set forth & #travel wheresoever one would. This wasn't taken away; for it was never the intention of peoples to destroy the #reciprocity & common user; in the days of Noah it would've been inhumane to do so

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Tucker (1753) knew that what can be "artfully called a #Tax upon Foreigners" is "in Reality it is a Tax upon ourselves of the very worst Sort"

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Come to our session on Crossing borders at the European Social Sciences History Conference #esshc ! My talk is on the ethics of abolishing #passports in the French interwar newspapers. A new episode of the series I'm writing on this topic. For latest episode journals.openedition.org/chrhc/22699

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

#Europe 68 years ago, the Treaty of Rome adopted the free movement of workers, goods, services and capital as a founding principle of EEC. Article 48 stated that #freedom of movement implies the #abolition of any #discrimination based on #nationality between workers. Happy birthday, Europe! 🇪🇺🎵🌎

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

When British Foreign Ministers were saying that visas are "against nature". 🤔 Here Mr Bevin, Labour foreign minister, saying he refuses to build new passport offices - quoted in Switzerland by Journal et feuille d’avis du Valais, 24 July 1946

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Who, in 1981, asked us to "Imagine that the natural sciences were to suffer the effects of a catastrophe [...] a Know-Nothing political movement takes power and successfully abolishes science teaching in schools and universities, imprisoning and executing the remaining scientists." 🤔

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Santa has arrived 📚 🎅 Thank you @profkochenov.bsky.social for inspiring us 🙏🌎💡

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Demain, séminaire au CEPED 😍 Chandran Kukathas (SMU) - Immigration & Freedom (en anglais) Jérôme Tubiana (MSF) - Les impacts des politiques d’externalisation de l’Union Européen www.ceped.org/evenement/se...

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

HG Wells (1934) criticizing methodological nationalism in IR "I can't succeed in translating nationalities into personalities. I can't make myself think of Japan as an individual ..." www.jstor.org/stable/20020...

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Compare contemporary philosophers who assume that #foreigners alter your culture with Locke (1693) who recommends travelling abroad to learn from foreigners. How to explain this intellectual change?

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Même idée chez #Locke (1693) qui inclut le voyage à l'étranger dans l'éducation. Y aller "bien instruit des lois, coutumes, avantages & défauts naturels et civils de son propre pays [pour] donner qq chose en échange aux #étrangers de la conversation desquels il espère recueillir qq #lumières"

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Bon, l'intérêt varie beaucoup et il n'y a pas tant de conférences des passeports. En 1929, on pense déjà abolir les passeports seulement en Europe.

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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Le plus étonnant (pour mes préjugés) c'est de voir que le + grand nombre d’art sur les conf des passeports est publié par 2 quotidiens de centre-droit: Le Temps, Le Journal débats politiques; soit autant que 4 journaux de centre-gauche réunis (L’Avenir, Le Rappel, La République fr, Le XIXe siècle)

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