@alexandreafonso

Associate Professor of Public Policy at Leiden University 🇨🇭 🇵🇹 | immigration | political economy | welfare states. I am from Lausanne, Switzerland.

 Leiden, Netherlands
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Joined June 2009
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I won't really be posting here anymore. I can be found at alexandreafonso.bsky.social
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Switzerland in the world top 3 of remittance-sending countries (ahead of Germany).
Simon van Teutem
@S_VanTeutem10 Oct 2024
India receives over $100 billion annually in money sent home by migrants, about 3.3% of its GDP. The Philippines gets nearly 10% this way. The Netherlands (17 million people) ranks in the top 10 for sending countries. Source: publications.iom.int/books/w…
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Doesn't count, but the current prime minister of Portugal is called Luis Montenegro. Any other examples of country leaders whose last name is another country?
Yuan Yi Zhu
@yuanyi_z23 Sep 2024
Game time: national politicians with the names of their countries in their names. I nominate Pierre Mendès France.
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Dimiter Toshkov@DToshkov19 Sep 2024
Immigration from Central and Eastern Europe increased support for right-wing Eurosceptic parties in the West, North and South of the EU 🇪🇺 Evidence from 30 national and European elections (2004-2019) in 7 countries 🇳🇱🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇦🇹🇮🇹🇵🇹 Just published in @EUP_TheJournal
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14651165241271979

ALT https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14651165241271979

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Een draadje (in het Nederlands ) over @JORISLUIJENDIJK's #7vinkjes met data.
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So widespread there is a handbook on it.
LSE Impact Blog@LSEImpactBlog31 Aug 2024
Book Review: The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education edited by Michelle Addison, Maddie Breeze and Yvette Taylor #ImposterSyndrome wp.me/p4m9em-chE
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Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram recently arrested in Paris, is a citizen of - Russia - France - St-Kitts & Nevis - the UAE buff.ly/471tDZ0
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Xavi Ruiz
@xruiztru19 Aug 2024
Map shows the European leaders at a crucial moment in history: the beginning of WWI.
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"The first modern Olympics would give out medals for painting, sculpture and music" buff.ly/3gCcuMQ
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Had never thought of noise-cancelling headphones in the context of exit, voice and loyalty.
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Actually, "English" is not an ethnic category in the US census. It takes about 10 seconds to look it up. Actually in the official definition "white" designates "origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa" census.gov/topics/population…

About the Topic of Race

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Matt Goodwin
@GoodwinMJ8 Aug 2024
Wow. You actually run something called "the Centre for English Identity" and you are asking us this. English as I'm sure you know is an ethnic category on the U.S. census. It refers to actual or subjective ancestral origins. Do you want me to revise your course reading list?
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An instead of listening to Matt Goodwin, I recommend this very interesting througline ep on the battle for defining what "white" meant in the US npr.org/transcripts/11554892…

The Whiteness Myth : Throughline

In 1923, an Indian American man named Bhagat Singh Thind argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that he was a white man and was therefore eligible to become a naturalized citizen. He based his claim on...

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it's about an Indian man that tried to naturalize as a US citizen at a time when US citizenship was reserved for white or black people. As a Brahmin Indian, he tried to argue in court that he was white on account of the origins of the Aryan people in India
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Mas o que é isto? publico.pt/2024/07/30/opinia…

Os “imigrantes de luxo” no ensino universitário do Direito

Helena Pereira de Melo: 'A nova saloiice legal traduzida na aceitação indiscutível da bondade do ensino do Direito em Inglês não deverá ser acriticamente considerada boa.'

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Jan Rovny@JanRovny19 Jul 2024
We are hiring 2 assistant professors in European politics! Deadline still quite far away, but please spread the word. Feel free to reach out for any questions. P.S. we are a great team to work with (ask our recent arrivals e.g. @RonjaSczepanski)
Florence Faucher@FlorenceFaucher19 Jul 2024
Come and join us at CEE8 2 tenure-track Assistant Professor positions: deadline 9 january 2025. sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-… @JanRovny @SciencesPo_CEE @sciencespo

Recruitment 'Assistant Professor (tenure track)'

Recruitment 2024 /2025 - Sciences Po is recruiting two Assistant Professors (tenure track) in political science / Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union

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Very happy to have contributed to this (with @emilyannewolff and @SamirNegash1 ), great to see it out in the world!
Guglielmo Meardi@guglielmomeardi19 Jul 2024
In the best bookshops, and soon in the best libraries. e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/researc…
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Tomas Pueyo
@tomaspueyo18 Jul 2024
Here's another way to look at it: Mexico vs Greenland (from @neilrkaye)
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Em dia de Estado da Nação, um trabalho sobre o pessimismo e os números da economia. Com @mesteveaqui, @bmpcarvalho, @marlon_econ, @alexandreafonso e Luísa Veloso “Vibecession”: como o pessimismo dos portugueses contrasta com a realidade da nossa economia expresso.pt/estado-da-nacao/…

“Vibecession”: como o pessimismo dos portugueses contrasta com a realidade da nossa economia

No papel, os indicadores macroeconómicos apontam para uma boa prestação das contas públicas. Lá fora, Banco Central Europeu e Comissão Europeia elogiam a economia portuguesa. Mas entre os números e a...

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Just discovered the existence of a far-right Spanish party named "Se Acabó La Fiesta" (the party is over(!), which won 3 seats in the EP? xitter.cf/simonjhix/status/18120…
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