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Up to ten percent of the refugees in Switzerland have a background in higher education. Facing many more obstacles than the average student, such as limited financial support and not verified diplomas, fugitives with academic background find it very hard, if not impossible, to continue their education at a Swiss
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Wer hätte je gedacht, dass die Idee der „Geschlechtergleichheit“ zu einem intrinsischen Charakteristikum des „Schweizer*in Seins“ würde? Mit „Swissness“ werden nicht mehr nur Pünktlichkeit, Ordentlichkeit, Wanderschuhe und Skis assoziiert. Neuerdings gilt „Geschlechtergleichheit“ ebenfalls als typisch Schweizerische Eigenschaft. „Ungleich“ sind nunmehr nur noch die „Anderen“, die von ausserhalb der Schweiz kommen. ...
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The notion of non-compliance with immigration policy and enforcement is a recurring theme, which regularly comes up both in reviewing government policy and through ethnographic work with men detained in the Verne immigration removal center. Non-compliance is not always the intentional manifestation of personal agency. Instead, in the messy landscape of UK immigration detention it can be another tool of domination.
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Despite the increasing scholarly attention to immigration detention around the globe, relatively little is known about life and the lived experiences of the people inside these sites of confinement. This is particularly true of the perspectives of professionals who provide services in these contexts. What are the lived experiences of people working in Rome’s detention center of Ponte Galeria? What complexities, struggles and contradictions do they encounter when working inside a custodial environment?
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In contrast to many other countries, Switzerland confines most of its immigration detainees in ordinary prisons together with convicted or on remand prisoners – although usually in separated areas. As a consequence, prison officers are those in charge of the confinement and exclusion of migrants. They are constantly confronted with their suffering, which may take the form of bewilderment, anger, or despair, and develop forms of moral detachment to cope with the situation.
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