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Counter-Narratives of Crisis: What Frontline Actors Learned from COVID-19

Andrea Friedli — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:23:42 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic intensified existing precarities and created new ones. While some people received state support, many others, especially those with fragile living and working conditions, fell through the cracks. NGOs and civil society initiatives tried to step in to fill those gaps. But what did that mean? During the

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Challenging Crisis Narratives: Migrant Voices of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Livia Tomás — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:29:56 +0000

Crises are often understood as moments of urgency and disruption that require fast decisions and can have far-reaching consequences for our social systems in both the short and long term. Yet, they are not experienced in the same way by everyone. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how different these experiences can

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Precarious Work in Switzerland: Experiences of Crises of a Hospitality Worker

Livia Tomás — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:30:34 +0000

Low wages, limited access to social protection and benefits, temporary or seasonal labor contracts, and employment through recruitment agencies or subcontractors are all defining characteristics of precarious work. The COVID-19 pandemic – marked by constant uncertainty and rapid change – has exacerbated precarious working conditions for many, especially for migrants.

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Have We Forgotten Our Urban Essential Workers?

Florence Testorelli — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:21:23 +0000

Urban essential workers are employed in key sectors, providing essential services such as public transport, cleaning, childcare and access to food. Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic shed light on these mostly invisible workers. However, low wages, poor working conditions and low social recognition still characterize their daily work. Despite

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The (Im)Mobility Turn and the COVID‐19 Pandemic

David Cairns — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:53:05 +0000

The COVID‐19 pandemic brought much of the world to a standstill, but not all mobility stopped. Despite restrictions reducing tourism and other forms of movement, some people, including migrant workers in agriculture, continued to travel out of necessity. However, since societies reopened, non-essential mobility has bounced back without controversy, while

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The Problems of Protection: Lessons from Migrant Vulnerability

Bridget Anderson — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:18:00 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic showed we are all vulnerable in a crisis, but also that crisis can deepen inequality. The virus infected (and continues to infect) regardless of race, class and passport, and this is precisely what exposes race, class, and passport as the inequality-producing mechanisms they are. Migrants – or

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(Im)Mobility Regimes in Times of Crisis: Concluding Remarks

Livia Tomás — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 08:30:02 +0000

Recent crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have reshaped how people can move – or are held back – revealing deep inequalities. In these moments, “(im)mobility regimes” are renegotiated, exposing the power structures and actors involved. By exploring changes in (im)mobility regimes in times of crises

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Lessons from COVID-19: Transformative Categories and Mobility Regimes

Eloise Thompson — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:30:09 +0000

In the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign-born workers contributed to maintaining the essential services on which the UK depends. They faced the double edge of public gratitude in contrast with insecure working and living conditions, compounded by often precarious immigration status. Recognizing the essential worker status could be a catalyst for transformative

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Des limites (im)perceptibles : l'(im)mobilité pendant la pandémie

Livia Tomás — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:30:48 +0000

L’accord sur la libre circulation des personnes entre la Suisse et l’UE est entré en vigueur en juin 2002. Depuis, les Suisse·sse·s et les citoyen·ne·s de l’UE économiquement actif·ve·s peuvent se déplacer librement entre les frontières nationales. Lorsque la pandémie COVID-19 a éclaté, ces frontières ont été fermées pour la

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(Un)merkliche Grenzen: (Im)Mobilität während der Pandemie

Livia Tomás — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:30:16 +0000

Im Juni 2002 trat das Freizügigkeitsabkommen zwischen der Schweiz und der EU in Kraft. Seither können sich wirtschaftlich aktive Schweizer*innen und EU-Bürger*innen frei zwischen nationalstaatlichen Grenzen bewegen. Als die COVID-19 Pandemie im März 2020 ausbrach, wurden diese Grenzen zum ersten Mal nach 18 Jahren geschlossen und damit wieder sicht- und

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