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Caring for vulnerable kin, children and elderly parents plays an important role in transnational families. As addressed in the global care circulation concept, female migrants from the Global South taking care of children and elderly members of wealthy families solve a public problem privately. We slightly change the focus and
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Der politische Begriff der Integration lässt Ausländerinnen und Ausländer als besonders integrationsbedürftig erscheinen. Soziale Probleme werden ethnisiert und strukturelle Benachteiligungen verwischt. Dabei bedient sich die offizielle Integrationspolitik einer undurchschaubaren Vielfalt an Unterscheidungen, die sie unverbindlich und unberechenbar werden lässt. Anstelle der heutigen Integrationspolitik sollte eine Politik der echten Anerkennung treten.
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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. ...
+ Read moreA 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. ...
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