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Financement de l’UNRWA : quels sont les enjeux d’une suspension des versements suisses ?

Philipp Lutz — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:59:32 +0000

La Conseil National a fait la une des journaux en septembre 2024 en votant pour la suspension des versements suisses à l’agence de l’ONU pour les réfugié·es palestinien·nes, l’UNRWA. Un mois plus tard, la Knesset israélienne a adopté deux lois visant à compromettre les activités de l’UNRWA en territoires palestiniens

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UNRWA in der Krise: Die möglichen Folgen des Endes der Schweizer Zahlungen

Philipp Lutz — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:07:52 +0000

Der Nationalrat sorgte im September 2024 international für Schlagzeilen, als er entschied, die Schweizer Beiträge an das palästinensische Flüchtlingshilfswerk UNRWA auszusetzen. Einen Monat später erliess das israelische Parlament Entscheide, welche der UNRWA das Ausüben ihres Mandats im Gazastreifen und im Westjordanland ab Anfang 2025 faktisch verunmöglichen könnte. Sollte der Ständerat

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Defunding UNRWA: What Is at Stake?

Philipp Lutz — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:27:13 +0000

The Swiss lower chamber made headlines in September 2024 with its vote to suspend Swiss donations to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. A month later, the Israeli parliament voted to effectively prevent the UN agency from continuing its mandate in Gaza and the West

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The Politics of Free Movement: What Have We Learned?

Philipp Lutz — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:30:32 +0000

On this day, 25 years ago, Switzerland signed a bilateral agreement with the European Union to establish the free movement of persons. It is time to look back on how this issue has shaped Swiss politics thus far. The idea of the free movement of persons as reciprocal mobility rights

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A New Pact on Migration and Asylum: What Changes for Responsibility-Sharing in the European Union?

Philipp Lutz — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 08:30:41 +0000

After more than three years of negotiations and just before the upcoming elections of the European Parliament, the European Union (EU) reached a provisional agreement on a new migration deal. Hailed as a historic agreement that will overhaul the EU’s migration and asylum policy framework, how would this deal change

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How Trade Agreements Shape Switzerland’s Immigration Policy

Philipp Lutz — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 07:30:36 +0000

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are meant to facilitate trade between countries. Yet, beneath the surface of these economic treaties lies a lesser-known dimension that extends beyond trade – the intricate regulation of international migration. A new dataset produced by researchers from the nccr – on the move based on these

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Misperceptions Drive Immigration Politics and Undermine Democracy

Philipp Lutz — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:30:51 +0000

Many people hold deep-seated misperceptions about immigration, painting its nature, effects, and governance in excessively dark colors. Rooted in concerns about out-group threats, these mistaken beliefs are often hard to correct as people are reluctant to accept contradictory information. This exacerbates polarization, undermines the deliberative tenets of pluralist discourse, and

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Western Countries Use Resettlement Policies Strategically

Philipp Lutz — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 08:30:51 +0000

Western countries repeatedly point to resettlement – the organized transfer of refugees to a safe third country – as a solution to persistent humanitarian crises. Yet, Philipp Lutz and Lea Portmann show how such resettlement can, paradoxically, be a way for states to legitimize limiting access to humanitarian protection The

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Wie gelingt internationale Verantwortungsteilung? Asyl- und Klimapolitik im Vergleich

Philipp Lutz — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 07:30:03 +0000

Menschen auf der Flucht haben Anspruch auf humanitären Schutz in einem sicheren Land – doch welches Land soll dafür zuständig sein? In der Praxis sind bisherige Bemühungen gescheitert, verbindliche Regelungen zur gemeinsamen Verantwortungsteilung in der Asylpolitik zu etablieren. Ein Vergleich mit der internationalen Klimapolitik zeigt, wie ein wirksamer Rahmen aussehen

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Making Responsibility-Sharing Operational: Comparing Asylum and Climate Governance

Philipp Lutz — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 07:30:15 +0000

International law demands that refugees obtain humanitarian protection in a safe country. However, which country should be responsible for which refugee remains a contested and unresolved question of international asylum governance – in particular in the event of refugee emergencies. Sharing the common responsibility of humanitarian protection is motivated by

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