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This is a repost of a blog that has first been published in the COMPAS Coronavirus and Mobility Forum on 15 May 2020. No-one quite imagined it would turn out this way: a world segregated between Isolationists and Openers. But they were not divided by nation state borders – one
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Some of the ways we practice and regulate human movement today may be fundamentally reassessed in the future. The Covid-19 pandemic, the ensuing travel restrictions, and the social experience of being in lockdown may trigger or accelerate a profound transformation in how we perceive human movement and its social impact,
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Switzerland severely restricted movements across and within its borders to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. How supportive were the Swiss residents of these measures? And who did they think should still be allowed to enter Switzerland even when the borders were generally closed? The results show that Swiss residents support
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As borders closed and countries shifted to a national focus, establishing lockdowns and social distancing measures, these extraordinary circumstances actually sped up the creation of a new network linking six initiatives in different European countries striving to obtain voting rights for residents without the local citizenship. Current debates and protests
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Soziale Arbeit ist immer eingebunden in gesellschaftliche Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnisse und von entsprechenden Widersprüchen durchzogen. Im Kontext von Migration und Integration kommen nationalstaatliche Begrenzungslogiken hinzu. Im Bundesasylzentrum (BAZ) – gewissermassen einem Epizentrum nationalstaatlicher Migrations- und Integrationspolitik – lassen sich anhand der Betreuung von unbegleiteten Minderjährigen diese Konstellation und ihre Konsequenzen
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