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Migrant Women in Times of Crisis: Vulnerability and Agency Among Domestic Workers

Emma Gauttier — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:11:07 +0000

Due to a lack of professional recognition and an often precarious legal status, migrant domestic workers were especially impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Many faced job losses and financial hardships almost overnight. Moreover, support measures were not adapted to their needs and reinforced the longstanding failure to acknowledge the work

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Implicit Racial Bias Affects Risk Preferences

Didier Ruedin — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:30:06 +0000

Discrimination is difficult to notice, as it often takes place in everyday situations, such as during job applications or apartment searches. To test this, we ran an online experiment that transformed decision-making into a game-like experience to capture the behavior of ordinary people. What we found striking was that people’s

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Das Flüchtlingsparlament Schweiz als Beispiel für aktive Beteiligung

Andi Geu — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:41:09 +0000

In der modernen Welt wird das Thema Beteiligung am politischen und gesellschaftlichen Leben immer relevanter. Ein herausragendes Beispiel für das Bestreben, Geflüchtete aktiv und selbstbestimmt in die Gestaltung der Gesellschaft einzubeziehen, ist das “Flüchtlingsparlament” in der Schweiz, das vom National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) ins Leben gerufen wurde. Es zeigt

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The Biopolitics of Fan Filtering : Qatar’s Post-Pandemic Mobility Regime

Jaafar Alloul — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:56:26 +0000

During the FIFA 2022 World Cup, Qatar devised several ad hoc migration policies to dramatically curb the total number of visitors in favor of a preferred type of soccer fan: well-off and depoliticized. Profiting from a global state of exception during the COVID-19 pandemic, Doha further refined its mobility regime

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Pandemic Citizenship: Ruptures or Reinforcements of Old Trends?

Jelena Dzankic — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:30:02 +0000

How much has the pandemic changed the governance of citizenship? Which ad hoc responses to the global health crisis have become embedded in ways states allocate rights and obligations to their citizens, and which ones have withered away? The pandemic has opened up a number of avenues to reflect on

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Breaking Biases: Deconstructing Myths on Immigrant Women in Switzerland

Anouk Albien — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:30:41 +0000

Immigrant women play a vital role in Switzerland, yet their narratives are often reduced to stereotypes such as, “looking for a husband” or “working as nannies.” In reality, immigrant women have contributed greatly to Swiss society. It seems therefore important to challenge misconceptions about immigrant women in Switzerland. In the

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Racisme et participation citoyenne : focus sur l’islamophobie genrée

Meriam Mastour — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:09:05 +0000

Une étude du Forum suisse pour l’étude des migrations et de la population (SFM) démontre qu’il existe en Suisse un racisme structurel (systémique). L’étude définit le racisme structurel comme un système social qui reproduit des inégalités. Voyons comment les institutions politiques et médiatiques suisses participent à ces inégalités en restreignant

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Strukturellen Rassismus sichtbar machen

Gina Vega — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 07:30:25 +0000

Die Beratungsstellen für Rassismusopfer sind mit vielfältigen Diskriminierungsvorfällen konfrontiert, welche in historisch gewachsene gesellschaftliche Strukturen eingebettet sind und Ungleichheiten legitimieren und reproduzieren. Diese manifestieren sich in ideologischen Einstellungen und oft unbewussten Haltungen sowie institutionalisierten Ausschlussmechanismen, die Menschen auf verschiedenste Weise benachteiligen. Rassismus ist ein mehrdimensionales Konstrukt, das sich systematisch und

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Struktureller Rassismus: Jetzt sind die Institutionen gefordert

Marianne Helfer — Wed, 31 May 2023 11:00:47 +0000

Rassismus ist grundsätzlich strukturell angelegt. Das zeigt eine neue Studie des Schweizerischen Forums für Migrations- und Bevölkerungsstudien (SFM) im Auftrag der Fachstelle für Rassismusbekämpfung (FRB). Sie legt dar, für welche Personen und in welcher Form struktureller Rassismus in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen vorkommt. Doch was bedeuten diese Ergebnisse für die Institutionen in

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Discriminating News Content – a Mostly Systemic Issue

Annik Dubied — Wed, 24 May 2023 07:30:27 +0000

Most Swiss journalists display a strong willingness not to produce news stories that discriminate. So, why are stories that reproduce or strengthen harmful stereotypes nevertheless published on a regular basis? When looking at the issue of discrimination in media content from a systemic standpoint, it seems essential to raise awareness

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