Discrimination
Discrimination is difficult to notice, as it often takes place in everyday situations, such as during job applications or apartment searches. To test this, we ran an online experiment that transformed decision-making into a game-like experience to capture the behavior of ordinary people. What we found striking was that people’s ...
+ Read moreDuring the 90th minute of the 2018 World Cup, when there was a draw between Switzerland and Serbia, Xherdan Shaqiri scored for Switzerland. Emotions ran high as Shaqiri celebrated his goal with a gesture indicating a double eagle, similar to that gestured by another player Granit Xhaka earlier in the ...
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Vorgestern endete die 9. Berner Aktionswoche gegen Rassismus. Mit einer Kampagne und 48 Veranstaltungen, Workshops und Aktionen in Bern, Köniz, Muri, Ittigen und Ostermundigen bot sie ein Programm in noch nie dagewesener Vielfalt. Während der Aktionswoche haben unter anderem Personen von ihrer Erfahrung mit Rassismus berichtet oder es wurde vermittelt,
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Le choix des mots représente un enjeu capital dans la prise en considération de phénomènes sociaux tels que le racisme. Le fait que les termes étymologiquement liés à la « race » soient souvent négligés dans la lutte contre le racisme et les analyses des inégalités est loin d’être anodin.
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In view of the upcoming Swiss national parliamentary elections this year, we discuss discrimination by voters against immigrant-origin candidates. Such discrimination in elections poses major challenges to liberal Western democracies and may contribute to the persisting political underrepresentation of the population with a migration background in Switzerland as in many
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