By Deborah Liebart . First appeared on DisputatioMagistrorum . DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3714557 Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA   “Feeling” is a social reality     Today, I would like to start a new cycle on the tax question, debate brought to light in France by the movement of yellow vests and more generally in Europe through various movements in recent years. When I started to study the tax issue, my questioning was to understand what motivated the anti-tax revolts, in the 17th and 18th centuries : from the Fronde [1] , to the “Bonnets rouges” [2] , from 1738-1739 to the crisis of subsistence of 1740 and the “guerre des farines” [3] , during which the rumor denounced a new “famine pact”, to use the expression of Prévost de Beaumont. My line of work, questioning the french national and regional archives, was to know what motivated these crowd movements : political campaigns launching rumors and publishing libels against the monarchy, popular reaction to th...

By Deborah Liebart . First appeared on DisputatioMagistrorum . DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3576363 Licensed under the CreativeCommons4.0 BY-NC-SA   Today, to celebrate the first anniversary of the Yellow Vests movement, I would like to focus on these anonymous women who daily fight in the name of ancestral solidarity forgotten in recent decades 1 . The feminine sociological composition of the Yellow Vest troops challenges the observer, as it sticks to historical realities of peaceful revolutionary struggles of women : not just to defend their individual rights, their own bodies, according to the feminist slogan of the « second wave », from the 1960s and 1970s, but much more to a universal feminism fighting for human rights, against all types of oppression, not for their own body but for the entire social body. It is to these pioneers of care that I want to pay tribute today, to those forgotten in History, overshadowed by some contemporary figures erasing th...

by Deborah Liebart . First appeared on DisputatioMagistrorum . DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3549366 Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA While the new French « Immigration Plan » has just been revealed on November 6th, I would like to focus on the changes made to « l’Aide médicale d’Etat » (AME). Sometimes presented as the incarnation of French laxity with regard to illegal immigration, sometimes presented as the gateway to « medical tourism », AME cover the health expenses of undocumented migrants living in France.  The myth of « medical tourism of the migrant », (phenomenon totally marginal according to Médecins du Monde), is a powerful lever of contemporary identity discourses. In reality only 3% of undocumented migrants cite health as a reason for migration and 85% of the patients supported by the association and eligible for the device are unaware of its existence. Beyond individual care, the AME is a real public health tool, one of...