asylum + refugees
Wir alle sind Bern (WasB/We are all Bern) was born out of a visioning process in December 2016 that brought together immigrants (documented and others), researchers and local NGO workers to redefine what citizenship in a globalized and urban environment looks like, and to advocate for this vision from the
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Der Gemeinderat der Stadt Zürich hat am 31. Oktober 2018 dem Stadtrat eine Motion zur Ausarbeitung der “Züri City Card” überwiesen. Nun muss der Stadtrat innert zwei Jahren eine Vorlage ausarbeiten, mit der die städtische Identitätskarte für alle Stadtbewohner*innen eingeführt werden könnte. In diesem Blogbeitrag gehe ich auf die Entstehung
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Sanctuary cities are a US phenomenon. But can they also be found in Europe? This blog post synthesizes the insights of three studies examining the variety of urban policies in support of irregular migrants in Europe. Only about 37 percent of the major European cities have formulated such a policy.
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Civil conflict embroiled El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s leading to an exodus of refugees seeking asylum in the United States. These events birthed the sanctuary movement, and later the sanctuary city movement. The second growth of sanctuary cities came in response to Bush’s Post-9/11 era immigration security crackdown.
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On October last year, we held an event series entitled “Sanctuary Cities in Switzerland?” about the meaning of a sanctuary city and whether this phenomenon also exists in Switzerland. The nccr – on the move supported event series laid the grounds for an in-depth consideration of the issue of sanctuary
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