Familie
Transnational grandparents and their contribution to the intergenerational circulation of care are rarely subject of attention in social sciences and public discourses on migration. Yet, as a central dimension of family solidarity, grandparents’ involvement in childcare also takes place within transnational families, both in countries of origin and settlement. Various ...
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Caring for vulnerable kin, children and elderly parents plays an important role in transnational families. As addressed in the global care circulation concept, female migrants from the Global South taking care of children and elderly members of wealthy families solve a public problem privately. We slightly change the focus and
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While building a wall between the United States and Mexico is a dominant media topic, the border is already fortified in many places. Art and graffiti, reminiscent of the Berlin wall, is expressing the mourning of the dead and reminding the observers of freedom and peace in Tijuana – a walk at its most Western edge. ...
+ WeiterlesenDas Spannungsfeld von religiösen Anliegen und der obligatorischen Schulpflicht beschäftigt die Öffentlichkeit, die Politik, die Medien und die Rechtsprechung seit mehreren Jahren. Der neueste Entscheid des Europäischen Gerichtshofes für Menschenrechte bezüglich der Dispensation vom Schwimmunterricht reiht sich in diese Diskussionen rund um Schulpflicht – respektive Ausnahmen von dieser – und das Schlagwort «Integration» ein. ...
+ WeiterlesenThe issue of whether EU (labor) migration law respects the principle of gender equality as it is supposed to is so far understudied. This attempt of exposing some gender-related flaws in the EU migration law shortly discusses the gender-neutrality of the EU Blue Card Directive and the Seasonal Workers Directive as two examples of EU migration law. And, it is used as evidence that the EU asylum and migration law does indeed contain traces of gender-discrimination. ...
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