Author: Robin Stünzi
With the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, statements concerning the fate of Syrian asylum seekers and refugees in Europe have proliferated. Beyond these heated reactions, the regime’s collapse raises critical sociological, legal, and political questions that scientific research could help address. In an optimistic scenario for Syria, will Syrian refugees ...
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Job seekers of Cameroonian descent face hiring discrimination in the Swiss labor market, as they must send about 30 percent more applications than candidates of Swiss origin to be invited to an interview. The results of our study suggest that black job seekers are systematically disadvantaged in the Swiss labor
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Research about migration has arguably been dominated by a western-, and nation-state-centered perspective. In response, reflexive debates on knowledge production have addressed methodological nationalism and colonial legacies, but also androcentrism, heteronormativity and other problematic features in scientific approaches to human mobility. This blog series aims to take stock of the
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One month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, nearly 4 million people have fled the country – a movement of population unseen in Europe since the Second World War. Europe’s response to this exodus has been similarly remarkable; the EU States have shown a degree of solidarity unobserved since the
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Au-delà des différences de permis de séjour qui contribuent à créer des hiérarchies de droits entre personnes étrangères, la discrimination demeure un problème bien réel en Suisse. Fondée sur l’attribution de caractéristiques collectives considérées comme innées et statiques, la discrimination peut être basée sur divers facteurs tels que la nationalité,
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