Speranta Dumitru is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Paris Descartes. She is a laureate of Foundation for Social Sciences and held a Chair on Social Ethics at CERLIS, CNRS.
Speranta's work focuses on mobility and freedom of movement. She is mainly interested in understanding why some kinds of mobility have come to be politically forbidden or allowed. Her previous publications focused on how mobility of people born in poor countries has been construed as "brain drain" and on why women born in developping countries have been labeled "care drain". Her present research focuses on how some people have come to be defined as (irregular) migrants and how this affects their opportunities.
When world leaders thought you shouldn’t need passports or visas
Sep 27, 2016 15:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
In the age of heavily restricted migration, passport control seems a natural prerogative of the state. The idea of abolishing passports is almost unthinkable. But in the 20th century, governments considered their total...
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