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Historian of Contemporary Europe | Author, The History of the European Migration Regime | Host, States and Migration Podcast https://xitter.cf/t.co/joRoX6iYPF
Nicosia, Cyprus
Joined August 2016
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Out today in @thirdworldQ: my new article tracing five narratives — "invasion," "difference," "humanitarian," "oil-shock," "crisis" — that built immigration restriction in Britain and France from the 1960s.
Free eprint (first 50 readers): tandfonline.com/eprint/9B5SH…
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📖 Ressource pédagogique "Les enjeux de Schengen et du contrôle aux frontières."
👩🏫 Programme de Première – spécialité HGGSP - Thème 3 : les frontières
📌 Par Emmanuel Comte 👇
ehne.fr/fr/eduscol/premiere-…
Just out: our @thirdworldq Special Issue introduction. Why did developed countries turn to restricting immigration from the Global South in the 1970s? Simone Paoli and I show how policy cycles built the North-South divide. Free to read: doi.org/10.1080/01436597.202… 1/2
Our Special Issue's seven studies map the turn: @mcslaven on Britain, mine on Britain and France, Simone Paoli on the ILO, Nancy De Leo on Tunisia-EEC, @c_szabla on the ICEM, Julia Schweers & @alexander_betts on East Africa, Omar AlShehabi on the Gulf. Thank you @tandfonline. 2/2
Book launch tomorrow at the University of Cyprus: The Global Migration Turn and the New International Order in the Long 1970s (Routledge, 2026), ed. with Simone Paoli.
20 May · 3:45 PM · LRC 012, Nicosia. Discussant: Michalis Moutselos. Free admission. See you there!
Chișinău this Friday: 46 states tell the ECtHR to defer to national judges on expulsion cases. This isn't new. What we call the 1970s' restrictive "migration turn" manufactured a permanent immigration challenge, making conflict with the Court inherent. 👉🏻 routledge.com/9789048566334
Aachen today: Draghi receives the Charlemagne Prize, lauded by Germany's Chancellor.
My recent chapter on German hegemony explains it well: a German-led order recognising the man who safeguarded it.
👉🏻 doi.org/10.4324/978100349122…
The European Parliament's EMPL endorsed the EU's new social security deal—billed as "fair labour mobility". My Labor History article on 70 years of posted-worker disputes shows the same logic: "protection" that shields richer countries' labour markets.
👉🏻 doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.201…
Yesterday's Yerevan migration declaration reads as European unity. With Sandra Lavenex, I argued the opposite: EU border cooperation advances through differentiation, with non-EU partners pulled in outside EU law. The EPC is that pattern formalised.
👉🏻 doi.org/10.1080/03932729.202….
Yesterday's EU asylum figures: down 27% in 2025—claimed as proof the Pact works, six weeks before it applies.
As I have argued, Europe's asylum regime externalises its problems. This drop is no exception: it owes more to Assad's fall than to Brussels.
👉🏻 doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2021.1…
Big day: @RoutledgeHist has released our new book, The Global Migration Turn and the New International Order in the Long 1970s, edited with Simone Paoli.
You can ask your library to order it or get the eBook here: routledge.com/9789048566334
Want an audiobook version? Tell me.
📚 Workshop | 20 May, University of Cyprus
The Global Migration Turn — book presentation, book launch & panel on Global South migration to Southeastern Europe since the 1970s.
2:00–7:00 PM | Free admission | All welcome
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The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....
New chapter out (De Gruyter, 2026): after 1989, Germany shifted from Cold War frontier to Europe’s protected centre—driving an asylum regime that externalised control and turned neighbours into a buffer zone—a logic that has fuelled recurring EU crises
doi.org/10.1515/978311167110…
The Vienna School of International Studies is hosting a Virtual Open House on 27 Jan. 2026 (4:30 pm CET). One of Europe's premier institutions for diplomacy and international affairs. Deadlines: 1 March (DLG, MAIS), 15 March (ETIA, DIA). Register → events.ringcentral.com/event…
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Many still conflate free movement with Schengen—and misunderstand both.
In my review of Europe without Borders (Princeton UP, 2025), now out in the American Historical Review, I explain this confusion—and what the evidence actually shows.
Read here 👉🏻 academic.oup.com/ahr/article…
The "law ... assumes that the irregular coming of migrants is the main tool to arrive in Italy."
Watch the full episode with @elenabonetti about Italy’s Broken Immigration System on youtu.be/roPKergPRJQ or listen on your favourite podcast platform.
"Migrant Women, Care Work, and Italy’s Broken Immigration System." Watch Episode #31 of “States and Migration: The Human Movement Podcast” with @elenabonetti on youtu.be/roPKergPRJQ or listen on your favourite podcast platform.
"This category of migrants comes to benefit from the welfare state and the migration benefits."
Watch the full episode with Christos Papapetrou about Irregular Workers and the Cost of Borders on youtu.be/nr56bhbKWIU or listen on your favourite podcast platform.
Irregular Workers and the Cost of Borders: The Pancyprian Farmers Union Speaks Out. Watch Episode #30 of “States and Migration: The Human Movement Podcast” with Christos Papapetrou on youtu.be/nr56bhbKWIU or listen on your favourite podcast platform.
