21.06.2024 , in ((Politics))
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Philipp Lutz
On this day, 25 years ago, Switzerland signed a bilateral agreement with the European Union to establish the free movement of persons. It is time to look back on how this issue has shaped Swiss politics thus far. The idea of the free movement of persons as reciprocal mobility rights
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28.02.2024 , in ((Politics))
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Maud Bachelet and Philipp Lutz
After more than three years of negotiations and just before the upcoming elections of the European Parliament, the European Union (EU) reached a provisional agreement on a new migration deal. Hailed as a historic agreement that will overhaul the EU’s migration and asylum policy framework, how would this deal change
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24.01.2024 , in ((Gestion migratoire))
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Eline Waerp
In 2015, more than a million refugees and migrants came to Europe during the so-called ‘migration crisis.’ This prompted a host of security-oriented responses to protect the EU’s external borders, spearheaded by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex). While the number of irregular border crossings has decreased substantially
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17.01.2024 , in ((Gestion migratoire))
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Anna Marino
Last summer, the Southern Mediterranean coast – and the Italian island of Lampedusa – gained significant media attention due to the arrival of numerous migrants on its shores. The Mediterranean Sea, seen as one of the most dangerous in the world, and Lampedusa are now recognized as Europe’s primary borders
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14.11.2023 , in ((Towards a Novel Mobility Regime))
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Christin Achermann, Sélim Clerc, Janine Dahinden, Francisco Klauser and Eloise Thompson
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, authorities deployed a myriad of “exceptional” measures that severely impacted the possibilities of human movement. States restricted, controlled and monitored people on the move at various social and spatial scales. The emerging “regime of (im)mobility” turned out to be highly differential and
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