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How Can Previous Public Health Emergencies Help Us Understand the COVID-19 Travel Restrictions?

Jelena Dzankic — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:37:10 +0000

Even before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, research on restrictions to mobility in the context of public health emergencies had already highlighted a few key insights. We know, for example, that travel restrictions are driven by epidemiological, diplomatic and economic considerations; they cause major disruptions; and different communities use

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Immigrant Researching versus Immigration Research

Rama Srinivasan — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:30:14 +0000

Integration policies are often perceived in academic works as gatekeeping instruments but, while they can certainly be deployed as such, this framing does not fully represent the variety of immigrant perspectives in my study. My own positionality as an immigrant, applicant for a spousal visa, and a researcher prompted lines

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Balkan-Swiss Senior Citizens and Social Work

Barbara Waldis — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:15:00 +0000

The social realities of elderly persons in Balkan-Swiss families have rarely been studied, in contrast to Italian or Spanish seniors in Switzerland. For the latter, different services are available, from mother-tongue counseling to Mediterranean wards in retirement homes. Due to the specific migration history between the Balkans and the Swiss

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“Abuse” : a structuring and performative notion in the field of asylum

Damian Rosset — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:30:36 +0000

The notion of abuse is omnipresent in the public debate on asylum. This discursive device has emerged as the inseparable counterpart of asylum both in social and political discourse as well as in the practices of actors implementing asylum law. It is a lens through which the problems and solutions

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L’urgence, l’endiguement et le tri : quarante ans de politiques d’asile en Suisse et en Europe

Robin Stünzi — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 08:46:48 +0000

Près de quarante ans après l’entrée en vigueur de la première loi suisse sur l’asile, cette série de blogs se penche sur certains des enjeux passés et présents des politiques d’asile menées en Suisse et en Europe. Ce billet introductif revient brièvement sur trois bouleversements importants survenus dans les années

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Are Highly Skilled Immigrant Women Professionally Integrated?

Roxane Gerber — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:30:58 +0000

Upon arriving in host countries, highly skilled immigrant women face numerous challenges entering the labor market. Not only may it be difficult to find a professional occupation, but that occupation may not suit their educational level, skills or knowledge. A recently published working paper shows the importance of family obligations

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„Woher kommst du wirklich?“ Zugehörigkeit und Geschlecht in der Stadt Zürich

Joanna Menet — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 07:30:10 +0000

Unter dem hashtag #vonhier wird zurzeit in deutschsprachigen Medien teils hitzig darüber debattiert, wie die Frage nach der Herkunft interpretiert werden soll. Unsere Forschung zeigt auf, dass Erfahrungen von Personen, die als Kinder von Migrant*innen in der Schweiz aufwuchsen, nicht individuell sind, sondern oft von gesellschaftlich verankerten Grenzziehungen geprägt sind.

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Naturalisation facilitée : « Suissitude » et inégalités de genre

Anne Kristol — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 07:30:52 +0000

La Suisse a introduit la naturalisation facilitée basée sur le mariage en 1992, afin de remédier aux profondes inégalités de genre qui marquaient alors le droit de la nationalité. Notre recherche, menée dans les institutions en charge des procédures de naturalisation facilitée, montre que l’instruction des demandes reflète encore aujourd’hui

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Einführung zur Blogserie “Gender matters! (Nicht-)Zugehörigkeit in der Schweizer Migrationsgesellschaft”

Janine Dahinden — Mon, 27 May 2019 14:00:45 +0000

Inwiefern prägt Geschlecht unsere Vorstellungen von „den Schweizer*innen“ und „den Anderen*“ in der Politik, in Gesetzen und im Alltag? Unsere Blogreihe zeigt auf, wie Grenzziehungsprozesse zwischen Staatsbürger*innen und den „Anderen*“ vergeschlechtlicht werden und zu Ausschluss führen können. Gender als analytische Kategorie erlaubt es, solche liberalen und rechtsstaatlichen Werten zuwiderlaufende Ungleichheitsstrukturen

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