société civile
Context matters. On 7 March 2021, the Swiss electorate will vote on the popular initiative “Yes to a ban on full facial coverings”. To separate the niqab from its religious social and political contexts and turn it into a simple question of ‘choice’ is to miss out on a great ...
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This is a repost of a blog that has first been published in the COMPAS Coronavirus and Mobility Forum on 15 May 2020. No-one quite imagined it would turn out this way: a world segregated between Isolationists and Openers. But they were not divided by nation state borders – one
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Some of the ways we practice and regulate human movement today may be fundamentally reassessed in the future. The Covid-19 pandemic, the ensuing travel restrictions, and the social experience of being in lockdown may trigger or accelerate a profound transformation in how we perceive human movement and its social impact,
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As borders closed and countries shifted to a national focus, establishing lockdowns and social distancing measures, these extraordinary circumstances actually sped up the creation of a new network linking six initiatives in different European countries striving to obtain voting rights for residents without the local citizenship. Current debates and protests
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Staatliche multikulturelle Politik bedeutet, der Vielfalt in der Bevölkerung in gesellschaftlichen, institutionellen und rechtlichen Kontexten Rechnung zu tragen. Das Beispiel von Mauritius eröffnet die Möglichkeit, eine differenzsensible Politik weiter zu denken und auf den spezifischen Auftrag der Sozialen Arbeit hinzuweisen. Alle staatlichen Gesellschaften sind im Grunde multikulturelle Konstruktionen, ebenso ist
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