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Gender and the Far Right: How Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Hides in Gender-Skeptic Discourse

12.06.2025 , in ((Politics)) , ((No Comments))

Today’s far-right parties across Europe have swapped skinhead boots for suits and slogans about race for discussions on “family values.” By attacking feminism and LGBTQA+ rights, they make use of widespread biases while hiding more extreme views. This new image, wrapped in tradition and respectability, allows racism and xenophobia to ...

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A Reflexive Perspective on Privileged Migration Studies. What’s the Point?

14.06.2022 , in ((Reflexive Migration Studies)) , ((No Comments))
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In political and popular discourse, migration is alternately portrayed as a problem to be managed or a danger to be fought. Consequently, the term appears to carry with it a set of social and political issues. Drawing on reflexive migration studies, it seems therefore appropriate to question how some mobile ...

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Krisen und Migrationspolitisierung: Kontext ist Trumpf

15.09.2021 , in ((Politics, Practices)) , ((No Comments))
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Welchen Einfluss haben Krisen auf die Politisierung von Migration? Dieser Frage sind wir mit Leslie Ader und Didier Ruedin in einem jüngst erschienenen Artikel nachgegangen, in dem wir sogenannte ‘claims’ – Einzelaussagen und Interviewäusserungen aber auch Abstimmungen oder Proteste – untersucht haben, über die in grossen Schweizer Printmedien berichtet wurde. ...

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