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A new market for home care has emerged in Switzerland, fostered by the free movement of workers. Private care agencies recruit women from lower-wage countries and place them in private households for elderly care. The women usually work for a few weeks or months at a time and commute between
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While building a wall between the United States and Mexico is a dominant media topic, the border is already fortified in many places. Art and graffiti, reminiscent of the Berlin wall, is expressing the mourning of the dead and reminding the observers of freedom and peace in Tijuana – a walk at its most Western edge. ...
+ WeiterlesenA new chapter is being written in the troubled history of the Dublin system. (Hastily) declared dead at the height of the crisis’ of 2015, it has been (belatedly) judged unfit for purpose by a whole range of actors including the European Commission and Parliament. A fundamental reform has therefore been placed on the agenda as matter of urgency. ...
+ WeiterlesenAu Canada, un « programme d’immigration pour entrepreneurs et entrepreneuses » a mis en péril l’équilibre social dans la région de Vancouver. La Suisse connaît, comme le Canada, l’un des plus fort taux d’immigration au monde : risque-t-on, dès lors, de telles évolutions en Suisse aussi ? Cette question parmi d’autres a été discutée avec le Prof. David Ley à l’occasion de la remise de son doctorat honoris-causa par l’Université de Neuchâtel. ...
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Researchers face many obstacles in gaining permission to study migration governance sites as governments seek to avoid accountability. In this post, I reflect on my experience of gaining access to the Moria camp in Lesvos – its denial, its negotiation and its achievement. The importance of the Moria camp and the entire Lesvos island in the emergent geography of the EU border regime as a site of bureaucracy, control and humanitarianism has turned it into a popular field for researchers.
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