asylum + refugees
Between February and March 2020, many people accustomed to being highly mobile witnessed a massive curtailing of their right to travel both across and within countries. Among these measures were suppression of flights, closure of borders, banning of international student exchanges, halting of public transportation, lock-down of entire cities, freezing
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Increasing global migration streams challenge social cohesion. The present blog contribution describes several lines of research examining how social norms shape the ways both national majorities in destination countries and immigrants react to increased diversity and its consequences. Overall, this research shows how social norms operating at the national and
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Imagine living in a confined space, without a feeling of being “home” and being controlled by institutional actors. With this in mind, three filmmakers tackled the theme of encampment. They joined our recent discussion after the first “On the Mov(i)e” event, sharing their reflections on the conceptualization of encampment and ...
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New Orleans, Louisiana witnessed an influx of undocumented Latinx workers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many of those who worked in rebuilding settled with their families in the area. As reconstruction wound down from 2010 on, rates of detainment and deportation in the city increased, although local
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Das letzte Schweizer Beispiel einer «sanctuary city» ist Genf. Weshalb der in Genf gewählte Ansatz für den Schutz irregulärer Migrant*innen im schweizerischen Kontext eine Ausnahme darstellt, erklärt Marianne Halle, die an der Ausarbeitung des Pilotprojekts «Opération Papyrus» beteiligt war. Das Pilotprojekt Opération Papyrus wurde zwischen dem 21. Februar 2017 und
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