Lorenzo Piccoli | nccr – on the move

Comment les urgences de santé publique précédentes peuvent-elles nous aider à comprendre les restrictions de voyage liées au COVID-19 ?

Lorenzo Piccoli — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:00:35 +0000

Avant même le début de la pandémie de COVID-19, les recherches sur les restrictions à la mobilité dans le contexte des urgences de santé publique avaient déjà mis en évidence quelques informations clés. Nous savons, par exemple, que les restrictions de voyage sont motivées par des considérations épidémiologiques, diplomatiques et

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How Can Previous Public Health Emergencies Help Us Understand the COVID-19 Travel Restrictions?

Lorenzo Piccoli — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:37:10 +0000

Even before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, research on restrictions to mobility in the context of public health emergencies had already highlighted a few key insights. We know, for example, that travel restrictions are driven by epidemiological, diplomatic and economic considerations; they cause major disruptions; and different communities use

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What Forms of Migration and Mobility Will We Condemn in 2050?

Lorenzo Piccoli — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:30:57 +0000

Some of the ways we practice and regulate human movement today may be fundamentally reassessed in the future. The Covid-19 pandemic, the ensuing travel restrictions, and the social experience of being in lockdown may trigger or accelerate a profound transformation in how we perceive human movement and its social impact,

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How COVID-19 Is Altering Our Conception of Citizenship

Lorenzo Piccoli — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:30:33 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency, but it also has the potential to impact on many other elements of European societies beyond health services. Jelena Dzankic and Lorenzo Piccoli write on the effect the outbreak is having on the uses and meanings of citizenship. The rapid spread of

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A Sudden Bankruptcy of Mobility Capital? The Paradoxical Effects of Pandemics on Human Movement

Lorenzo Piccoli — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:00:22 +0000

Between February and March 2020, many people accustomed to being highly mobile witnessed a massive curtailing of their right to travel both across and within countries. Among these measures were suppression of flights, closure of borders, banning of international student exchanges, halting of public transportation, lock-down of entire cities, freezing

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The most read blog posts of 2018

Lorenzo Piccoli — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:00:05 +0000

The nccr – on the move blog has been read by over 2000 people during 2018. The most popular post is «High-Skilled but Unemployed: The Absence of Expat Wives from the Labor Market», by Kate Kirk. The three most read contributions of the year are dealing with family migration and

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Football and Citizenship in the 2018 World Cup

Lorenzo Piccoli — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:49:24 +0000

Unlike his brother Granit Xhaka, who plays for the Swiss national team, the Basel-born Taulant Xhaka opted to play for Albania, where his parents were born. The two brothers did not play against each other at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. If Switzerland would have qualified for the

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Can Elected Politicians Have Two Passports?

Lorenzo Piccoli — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:57:20 +0000

On Wednesday, 1 November, Ignazio Cassis formally replaces outgoing federal councilor Didier Burkhalter as the seventh member of the Federal Council of Switzerland. Born to Italian parents in the Swiss canton of Ticino, Cassis gave up his Italian citizenship just weeks before being elected. His decision sparked a heated debate on whether elected politicians should surrender their foreign passports and renounce their dual citizenship, once elected to a post. In Switzerland, there is no legal obligation to do so.

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