22.02.2024 , in ((Transnational Ageing))
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Livia Tomás
Auslandschweizer*innen stehen im Fokus politischer und medialer Debatten rund um die Volksinitiative «Für ein besseres Leben im Alter», besser bekannt als Initiative für eine 13. AHV-Rente. Die Rede ist von Luxusrenten und massiver Bevorteilung von Rentner*innen im Ausland. Die Gegenrede verweist auf die zunehmenden finanziellen Schwierigkeiten von Rentner*innen und die
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20.02.2024 , in ((Climate-Induced Migration))
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Cyprien Fluzin
Refugee lawyers have long contested the popular use of the term “climate refugee.” What could seem like legal nitpicking has the merit of highlighting major differences in legal categories. It also reveals international law’s current inability to offer adequate systematic solutions to forced cross-border displacement caused by climate change. Nonetheless,
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08.02.2024 , in ((Climate-Induced Migration))
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Mrittika Bhattacharya
In Sundarban, India, my conversation with a Bangladeshi woman challenged the common perceptions surrounding environment-induced mobilities, since she cited insufficient income as the primary reason behind moving with her family. This made me look beyond the “obvious” during a six-month exploration using Feminist Participatory Action Research, revealing the interplay between
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31.01.2024 , in ((Climate-Induced Migration))
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Sargam Goundar
Pacific Island countries have globally been at the forefront of research, media, and policy discussions on climate mobility. These island nations have been predominantly categorized as „climate migrant-sending countries“ – particularly so in Europe, where media and Western scholarship have painted an overly simplistic picture in which „all Pacific Islands
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24.01.2024 , in ((Gestion migratoire))
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Eline Waerp
In 2015, more than a million refugees and migrants came to Europe during the so-called ‘migration crisis.’ This prompted a host of security-oriented responses to protect the EU’s external borders, spearheaded by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex). While the number of irregular border crossings has decreased substantially
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