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Methodological nationalism has been omnipresent in migration theory and research since the publication of a famous article by Wimmer and Glick Schiller in 2002. However, with respect to scientific conferences and gatherings in which scholars debate these issues, this type of interrogation has been absent. In what follows, I will ...
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Without women, the nccr – on the move would stand still. The promotion of female academic careers was one of the declared structural goals of the NCCRs (National Centres of Competence in Research) upon the creation of this instrument in the late 1990s and it continues to be so. But
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In this contribution to the Blog Series “Gender, Skills, Migration” we assess the performance of the nccr – on the move in realizing one of its strategical goals, namely the equal opportunities of its members. Some partial goals, such as gender balance and increased sensitivity, have been achieved, but at
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Migration wird heute oft als Gefahr für die Gleichberechtigung der Geschlechter gesehen. Ein Blick in die Schweizer Geschichte zeigt allerdings, dass Migration im Gegenteil viel dazu beigetragen hat, die Verhältnisse in Arbeitswelt, Bildung und Politik zugunsten von Frauen zu verändern. Die Sichtweise, dass Migration sich nachteilig auf die Geschlechterverhältnisse auswirke,
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That if women will, everything will stand still has become obvious over the nearly 30 years which have elapsed since the first national feminist demonstration in Switzerland. What is true of all productive sectors is certainly true of academia. But what role do social stereotypes and individual biases play in
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