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Between Market Power and Labor Rights

Kristina Schüpbach — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:03:55 +0000

Switzerland’s seasonal worker statute – abolished in 2002, tied residence permits to employers. According to theory, such regulation gives employers greater bargaining power in wage-setting and could lower wages. Strengthening immigrants’ social and economic rights through the Agreement on the Free Movement of People (AFMP) may have helped reduce the

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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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Don’t Expect Too Much of 2050

Marco Bitschnau — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:40:23 +0000

It is human nature to imagine a future much different from the present, but the excess of this trait can also easily lead us astray. And while we may indeed reappraise the current mobilities and immobilities against the backdrop of climate change, we should be careful not to raise our

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Kündigung des Freizügigkeitsabkommens – Und dann?

Sarah Progin-Theuerkauf — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 07:30:38 +0000

Die Begrenzungsinitiative zielt auf die Kündigung des Abkommens über die Personenfreizügigkeit (FZA) mit der EU ab. Was passiert aber im Falle einer Kündigung? Müssen dann alle Freizügigkeitsberechtigten sofort in ihre Heimatländer zurück? Hat das FZA gewisse Nachwirkungen? Was sind die Vor- und Nachteile einer Kündigung? Das FZA sieht in Art.

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Personenfreizügigkeit in der Krise?

Philipp Lutz — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:30:18 +0000

Im Zuge der sogenannten «Flüchtlingskrise», des erstarkten Rechtspopulismus und zuletzt der Corona-Krise ist der Abgesang auf die Personenfreizügigkeit und das offene Europa immer lauter geworden. Steckt damit das Recht auf freien Personenverkehr in Europa in einer fundamentalen Krise? Die Einstellungsforschung widerspricht diesem Narrativ und weist eine stabile Unterstützung in der

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The Pandemic Kills also the European Solidarity

Constantin Hruschka — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:30:27 +0000

This is a repost of a blog contribution published at the EU migration law blog on 20 March 2020. In the fast-growing Corona crisis, governments in Europe are currently trying to find ways to contain the virus. Many measures seem at first sight to make sense (like school closures and

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Rethinking Being and Belonging During the Pandemic: Observations of a Migrant in Italy

Ipek Demirsu — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:05:57 +0000

Italy has been one of the worst-hit countries by the COVID-2019 pandemic, as its rich social ties and a strong sense of community turned out to be its greatest weakness. A month and a half since the cases started to proliferate, the Italian society is rediscovering a shared sense of

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