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 ...
+ WeiterlesenThe UK’s ‘New Plan for Immigration’ allows the government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, reflecting the latest aspiration to externalize refugee protection. But Britain’s attempt to externalize refugee protection is by no means a new idea. Countries worldwide have toyed with it for years – and failed consistently. In ...
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Reflexive approaches in migration studies have revealed the problems of traditional constructions of the objects of migration research. Much less attention has been paid to the subjects doing the research and the mechanisms that prevent the perspectives of scholars with their own ‘migranticization’ experiences to be adequately represented in knowledge
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Migration research has historically conceived migrants as heterosexual, and rendered gender and sexual identity invisible. It is only recently that the intersection of queer and migration studies has produced critical knowledge about the heteronormative structures that govern immigration institutions. Queer migration studies emphasize the theorization of queer migration histories and
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‘Respecting the values of the constitution’ is one of the most recent requirements in Swiss integration law. In the last decades, academic voices reproducing narratives of ‘cultural distance’ have contributed to the emergence of the requirement and the conception of integration more broadly. Culturalist integration imaginaries have shaped and continue
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