Emmanuel Comte, PhD

Historian of states and human movement | Author of The History of the European Migration Regime | Host of States & Migration 🎙

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

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: https://t.co/KCpXKJaat2

Want an audiobook version? Tell me.

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

Greece's Eastern Aegean arrivals fell 63% this year. So, Crete is now a main entry point into the EU. Mediterranean migration runs on interdependence: closing one lane does not stop the flow—it reroutes it. 👉🏻 https://t.co/eAFE90gIGR

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

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): https://t.co/soo3TuAEmq

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

On 13 May, Brussels began drafting Montenegro's EU accession treaty — the first since Croatia in 2011. The treaty shows renewed momentum, demonstrating one more time that free movement inevitably fades politically.
https://t.co/9RdytuPQN3

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

The Commission calls Schengen "resilient." Yet 10 states run internal border checks; France renewed until 31 Oct.

European free movement is a permanent struggle to contain state control over human movement — never finished.

👉🏻 https://t.co/S7fvESTaEo

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

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!

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

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. 👉🏻 https://t.co/KCpXKJaat2

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

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.

👉🏻 https://t.co/6CfQVMXsLE

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

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.
👉🏻 https://t.co/Zja5VnPp6S

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

"Ten years ago, we didn't have a system,"—Brunner this week, on the new Pact.

The EU regime was set by the 1970s: free movement inside, coordinated closure outside. The Pact doesn't start a system—it continues a long-standing and ineffective one.

👉🏻 https://t.co/9RdytuPQN3

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

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.

👉🏻 https://t.co/S5nPj4kVZi.

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

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.
👉🏻 https://t.co/Jt0Dvv9k2b

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

When Brunner (Migration Commissioner) and Stoklund (Danish presidency chair) presented the 2026 Solidarity Pool, six states won waivers from it. Differentiation, not uniform rules, has always governed this regime — Sandra Lavenex & I showed here 👉🏻 https://t.co/S5nPj4kVZi

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

Spain has overtaken Germany as the EU's largest asylum recipient — first time since 2015. Read as German decline? Wrong frame: post-1989 Berlin built the Dublin system to keep first-entry responsibility on others. The regime is working as intended.

👉 https://t.co/bQ4nzgItWA

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

📚 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

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

My analysis of the cause of the war in Iran is now freely available on https://t.co/TkNF2KNLvV and https://t.co/TVN7pakBzH. You are welcome to read, share, and respond.

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

The Petrodollar Enforcement Quagmire: Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, and Iran. My latest on https://t.co/TVN7pakBzH and https://t.co/TkNF2KNLvV

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

@vintagemapstore It was on June 18.

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

@arthurhomines https://t.co/G47LSKGB8o

[Emmanuel Comte, PhD @EmmanuelComte]

The Petrodollar Enforcement Quagmire: Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, and Iran. My latest on https://t.co/TVN7pakBzH and https://t.co/TkNF2KNLvV

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

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.....