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Building CrisisMigRef: Mapping Migration and Mobility Research in an Age of Crisis

Sargam Goundar — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:29:49 +0000

What counts as a crisis, and who gets to decide? And how do you build a database around a concept that researchers themselves cannot agree on? These were some of the questions behind the development of CrisisMigRef, a database developed during the final phase of nccr – on the move

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Return in Switzerland: A Complex Reality Behind a Simple Word

Julia Litzkow — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:00:16 +0000

Return – the departure of migrants back to their countries of origin, whether voluntarily or by force – is back at the top of the political agenda in Switzerland and Europe. But what do we actually mean when we talk about it? Often treated as a simple outcome, it is

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Restricted at Home: Mobility, Housing, and Muslim Neighborhoods in Delhi

Istikhar Ali — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:39:42 +0000

Finding a place to live in Delhi is not just about budget or location. For many Muslim residents, it involves navigating refusals from landlords, exclusion by housing societies, and coded language that signals who is—and is not—welcome. What appears as individual choice in the housing market is often shaped by

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Migration on Screen: Why Cinema Keeps Looking North

Lorenzo Piccoli — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:51:14 +0000

Migration has long been a recurring subject in cinema. From wartime displacement to contemporary border crossings, films keep returning to stories of departure, arrival, loss, aspiration, and belonging. Yet we still know surprisingly little about how migration is represented in films. Think about classic works such as “Casablanca” and “The

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Dispense d’intégration : pourquoi les migrant·e·s sont soumis·es à des normes sociales plus strictes

Stefan Manser-Egli — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:12:58 +0000

Si les normes et les attentes sociales façonnent nos vies à tou·te·s, elles ne s’appliquent pas de la même manière à chacun·e. Une nouvelle étude montre que les migrant·e·s en Suisse sont soumis·es à des normes plus strictes que le reste de la société, notamment en matière d’engagement social local et

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Integrationsdispensation: Warum für Migrant*innen strengere soziale Normen gelten

Stefan Manser-Egli — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:01:13 +0000

Soziale Normen und Erwartungen prägen zwar unser Leben, gelten jedoch nicht für alle gleichermaßen. Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass für Migrant*innen in der Schweiz strengere Normen gelten als für den Rest der Gesellschaft, beispielsweise in Bezug auf lokales soziales Engagement und die Einhaltung der Rechtsordnung. Dieser Doppelstandard bestätigt, was die

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Integration Dispensation: Why Immigrants Face Stronger Social Norms

Stefan Manser-Egli — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:29:39 +0000

While social norms and expectations shape all our lives, they do not apply to everyone in the same way. A new study shows that migrants in Switzerland are held to higher standards than the rest of society, for example, with regard to local social engagement and compliance with the legal

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Reddit Migration Trajectories – Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Migration Research

Vestin Hategekimana — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:30:46 +0000

With the advent of big data, new approaches in migration studies have proliferated. However, they remain predominantly quantitative, focusing heavily on geospatial data and often missing the human stories and complex experiences behind each migration journey. Some researchers take a more narrative and qualitative approach, exploring the stories people construct

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The EU Pact Embraces Member States’ Special Proximities Towards Selected Migrant Sending Countries

Marion Panizzon — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:30:09 +0000

Under the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum, bilateral migration agreements are revived with strings attached. Once formed by national interests, they must now respect EU rules on migration management and uphold the principle of sincere cooperation. Because the solidarity mechanism now includes Member States’ special ties with third

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Taking a Second Look: Post-Dissertation Reflections on My Dataset

Mathis Schnell — Wed, 21 May 2025 07:30:20 +0000

After finishing my PhD dissertation, I was somewhat disappointed not to have exploited the full potential of my dataset. In other words, months of work can result in valuable datasets that remain largely unexplored once our PhD dissertations are complete. Yet this data holds great potential for further analysis and

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