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From Precarity to Possibility: Toward a Fairer Academic Mobility Regime for Temporary Migrants

27.11.2025 , in ((International Academic Mobility)) , ((No Comments))

Academic mobility, whether short-term or long-term, has long been hailed as a vital driver of knowledge creation and cross-border intellectual exchange. Historically, the movement of scholars fueled innovation and collaboration across nations. Beneath this idealized narrative lies a more complex reality: temporary contracts, job instability, and structural inequalities. These challenges ...

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Grande Sertão: Veredas – Wandering Through Loneliness and Rewarding Academic Encounters

18.11.2025 , in ((International Academic Mobility)) , ((No Comments))

In “Grande Sertão: Veredas,” the “sertão” is a dry, harsh land crossed by vital streams called “veredas.” My path through European academia as a Brazilian scholar has followed a pattern of marginalization, where my knowledge, language, and presence were constantly contested, interrupted by rare, nourishing collaborations. To change academia built ...

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Sexarbeit und Migrationspolitik: eine anhaltende Verflechtung

25.06.2025 , in ((Politics)) , ((No Comments))

Sexarbeit gilt in der Schweiz als Arbeit. Doch das wird hinterfragt. In einem Positionspapier stellen die Frauen der Mitte Partei insbesondere migrantische Sexarbeitende als Opfer dar. Sie wollen unter anderem Freier dazu verpflichten, den Aufenthaltsstatus von Sexarbeitenden zu kontrollieren. Sexarbeit und Migrationspolitik sind seit den 1990er Jahren eng verflochten. Auch ...

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Gender and the Far Right: How Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Hides in Gender-Skeptic Discourse

12.06.2025 , in ((Politics)) , ((No Comments))

Today’s far-right parties across Europe have swapped skinhead boots for suits and slogans about race for discussions on “family values.” By attacking feminism and LGBTQA+ rights, they make use of widespread biases while hiding more extreme views. This new image, wrapped in tradition and respectability, allows racism and xenophobia to ...

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