labor migration | nccr – on the move https://nccr-blog.flake.work Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:34:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Have We Forgotten Our Urban Essential Workers? https://nccr-blog.flake.work/have-we-forgotten-our-urban-essential-workers/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/have-we-forgotten-our-urban-essential-workers/#respond Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:21:23 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=10144 Urban essential workers are employed in key sectors, providing essential services such as public transport, cleaning, childcare and access to food. Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic shed light on these mostly invisible workers. However, low wages, poor working conditions and low social recognition still characterize their daily work. Despite

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/have-we-forgotten-our-urban-essential-workers/feed/ 0 The (Im)Mobility Turn and the COVID‐19 Pandemic https://nccr-blog.flake.work/the-immobility-turn-and-the-covid%e2%80%9019-pandemic/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/the-immobility-turn-and-the-covid%e2%80%9019-pandemic/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:53:05 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9918 The COVID‐19 pandemic brought much of the world to a standstill, but not all mobility stopped. Despite restrictions reducing tourism and other forms of movement, some people, including migrant workers in agriculture, continued to travel out of necessity. However, since societies reopened, non-essential mobility has bounced back without controversy, while

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/the-immobility-turn-and-the-covid%e2%80%9019-pandemic/feed/ 0 Des limites (im)perceptibles : l'(im)mobilité pendant la pandémie https://nccr-blog.flake.work/des-limites-imperceptibles-limmobilite-pendant-la-pandemie/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/des-limites-imperceptibles-limmobilite-pendant-la-pandemie/#respond Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:30:48 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9650 L’accord sur la libre circulation des personnes entre la Suisse et l’UE est entré en vigueur en juin 2002. Depuis, les Suisse·sse·s et les citoyen·ne·s de l’UE économiquement actif·ve·s peuvent se déplacer librement entre les frontières nationales. Lorsque la pandémie COVID-19 a éclaté, ces frontières ont été fermées pour la

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/des-limites-imperceptibles-limmobilite-pendant-la-pandemie/feed/ 0 (Un)merkliche Grenzen: (Im)Mobilität während der Pandemie https://nccr-blog.flake.work/unmerkliche-grenzen-immobilitat-wahrend-der-pandemie/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/unmerkliche-grenzen-immobilitat-wahrend-der-pandemie/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:30:16 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9644 Im Juni 2002 trat das Freizügigkeitsabkommen zwischen der Schweiz und der EU in Kraft. Seither können sich wirtschaftlich aktive Schweizer*innen und EU-Bürger*innen frei zwischen nationalstaatlichen Grenzen bewegen. Als die COVID-19 Pandemie im März 2020 ausbrach, wurden diese Grenzen zum ersten Mal nach 18 Jahren geschlossen und damit wieder sicht- und

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