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Switzerland’s 10 Million Population Milestone: Exploring the Consequences

Philippe Wanner — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:30:21 +0000

Over the past few months, Switzerland’s changing population trends have received increasing media coverage and gained the interest of certain political circles. While this is not new, the increase in population in Switzerland regularly raises questions as to whether this trend can be changed. And at what cost? Or would

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Le casse-tête du racisme structurel en Suisse

Leonie Mugglin — Thu, 04 May 2023 07:30:59 +0000

En Suisse, le racisme est souvent considéré comme un problème marginal qui ne concerne que quelques individus aux opinions extrémistes. Pour mieux comprendre les manifestations structurelles du phénomène, une étude récemment publiée dresse un état des lieux au moyen de données empiriques dans les domaines du travail, du logement, de

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Does an Immigrant-Native Wage Gap Exist? And Is It Fair?

Eva Van Belle — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 12:34:14 +0000

People with a migration background face many barriers in the labor market. Research has shown that they have fewer chances of being invited for job interviews or being offered a promotion, and when they do get a job, they may well earn less or face worse working conditions. Much less

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Why Mobility Matters to Social Policy

Cecilia Bruzelius — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:30:42 +0000

Over the recent years, there has been growing attention to cross-national migration in social policy research. Yet migration is often seen as external to the development of welfare systems. Moreover, the relationship between mobility and social policy at different scales has been largely overlooked, despite the salience of mobility and

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The Informal Practices of Transnational Migrant Entrepreneurs in Barcelona: Three Contrasting Cases

Laure Sandoz — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 07:30:00 +0000

In recent academic literature, transnational migrant entrepreneurs are represented as active agents capable of mobilizing resources situated in different countries to develop businesses. Mobility, however, is an unequally distributed resource, and restrictive migration regimes limit the possibilities of individuals to become entrepreneurs. An ethnographic study in Barcelona highlights the obstacles

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Les employeurs·euses préfèrent-ils les hommes ?

Laure Sandoz — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 07:30:39 +0000

Actuellement, près de la moitié des personnes immigrées viennent en Suisse pour y travailler et une grande partie d’entre elles ont déjà un contrat de travail à leur arrivée. Ces migrations de travail sont le plus souvent masculines, tandis que les femmes sont surreprésentées parmi les personnes qui migrent pour

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Gleichstellung, Qualifikation, Migration – eine Blogserie anlässlich des nationalen Frauenstreiktages am 14. Juni 2019

Aldina Camenisch — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 07:30:34 +0000

Am kommenden Freitag findet der dritte nationale Frauenstreiktag statt. Dieser Tag soll gemäss dem Aufruf der Streikversammlung dazu dienen, die tatsächliche Gleichstellung und Selbstbestimmung von Frauen* in der Schweiz einzufordern, insbesondere gleicher Lohn für gleichwertige Arbeit sowie die ökonomische und sozialrechtliche Anerkennung und gleichberechtigte Aufteilung von Care-Arbeit. Der nccr –

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