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Der erste «internationale Tag für das Wahlrecht für alle Einwohner*innen»

Katrin Sontag — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:15:00 +0000

Die internationale Mobilität führt dazu, dass ein wachsender Anteil der Wohnbevölkerung in Europa kein Wahlrecht hat. Dieser Blogbeitrag stellt europäische Initiativen vor, die sich angesichts dieses demokratischen Defizits für inklusivere politische Rechte einsetzen. So fand etwa am 26. April 2021 der erste internationale «Tag für das Wahlrecht für alle» statt,

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Non-Citizen Voting Rights: A New European Network

Katrin Sontag — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:30:29 +0000

As borders closed and countries shifted to a national focus, establishing lockdowns and social distancing measures, these extraordinary circumstances actually sped up the creation of a new network linking six initiatives in different European countries striving to obtain voting rights for residents without the local citizenship. Current debates and protests

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Refugees in Higher Education – Developments in 2019

Katrin Sontag — Tue, 05 May 2020 07:30:41 +0000

Education at universities is not easily accessible for asylum seekers and refugees in Europe. The daily life of asylum seekers and provisionally admitted persons is highly regulated. When it comes to refugee students, the rules of the education system intersect with the ones on the asylum system, thus further restricting

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Social Cohesion Through Solidarity with Refugees

Katrin Sontag — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 07:30:01 +0000

This blog post looks at activists and projects that support homeless refugees as an example of social cohesion through solidarity that takes place in local or transnational networks. In political and media discourse, there is sometimes a fear of insufficient social cohesion referring to nation states – e.g., the cohesion

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Blog Series “Social Cohesion Beyond the Nation State?”

Katrin Sontag — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 08:30:35 +0000

“Social cohesion is threatened in Western democracies in times of mobility and migration.” Such concerns are raised both privately and publicly and often linked to fears of a crisis of the nation state. Yet, what is meant by social cohesion in the first place? If defined as connectedness between individuals,

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Voting Rights – A Question of Nationality or Residence?

Katrin Sontag — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:17:39 +0000

In times of global migration and mobility citizenship and voting rights need to be reconsidered, especially in countries or cities with a high rate of foreign residents. In Brussels an initiative is proposing to grant voting rights to all residents of the city. In Switzerland the concept of citizenship in

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The Wall That Already Exists at the U.S.-Mexican Border

Katrin Sontag — Thu, 03 May 2018 09:39:09 +0000

While building a wall between the United States and Mexico is a dominant media topic, the border is already fortified in many places. Art and graffiti, reminiscent of the Berlin wall, is expressing the mourning of the dead and reminding the observers of freedom and peace in Tijuana – a walk at its most Western edge.

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Deported to Mexico as Strangers

Katrin Sontag — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:35:14 +0000

More than 100 000 people were deported from the United States to Mexico in 2017. Some of them have been living in the United States as undocumented immigrants for many years. Some of them do not have family connections in Mexico or speak Spanish. What happens once they arrive in Mexico? A visit to a migrant shelter in Tijuana.

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