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

Şahizer Samuk Carignani — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:30:56 +0000

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

Thais França — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:15:50 +0000

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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Sex Work and Migration Policy: An Ongoing Entanglement

Lisa Stalder — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:16:12 +0000

Sex work is recognized as legitimate work in Switzerland. However, this recognition is increasingly being questioned. In a position paper, the women of the Swiss Center Party portray particularly migrant sex workers as victims. Among other demands, they call for clients to be required to check the residence status of

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Sexarbeit und Migrationspolitik: eine anhaltende Verflechtung

Lisa Stalder — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:30:15 +0000

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

Irina Radu — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:57:50 +0000

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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Migrant Women in Times of Crisis: Vulnerability and Agency Among Domestic Workers

Emma Gauttier — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:11:07 +0000

Due to a lack of professional recognition and an often precarious legal status, migrant domestic workers were especially impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Many faced job losses and financial hardships almost overnight. Moreover, support measures were not adapted to their needs and reinforced the longstanding failure to acknowledge the work

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Vulnerabilization of Migrant Workers During Crises

Claudine Burton-Jeangros — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:39:24 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic hit undocumented migrant workers, a population already living in precarious and particularly hard circumstances. Often overlooked and misunderstood, their lives remain largely invisible with limited data available to illustrate their struggles, especially in times of crisis. In Geneva, Switzerland, many grappled to cope with losing their jobs,

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Care at the Intersection of Mobility and Gender/Sexuality Regimes: Past Legacies

Janine Dahinden — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:17:37 +0000

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, problematic past legacies emerged from the intersection of mobility and gender/sexuality regimes. By diving into these continuities, I examine two compelling case studies – domestic caregivers and sex workers. These cases allow me to study how a global, but also a national, crisis of care emerged

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Breaking Biases: Deconstructing Myths on Immigrant Women in Switzerland

Anouk Albien — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:30:41 +0000

Immigrant women play a vital role in Switzerland, yet their narratives are often reduced to stereotypes such as, “looking for a husband” or “working as nannies.” In reality, immigrant women have contributed greatly to Swiss society. It seems therefore important to challenge misconceptions about immigrant women in Switzerland. In the

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Racisme et participation citoyenne : focus sur l’islamophobie genrée

Meriam Mastour — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:09:05 +0000

Une étude du Forum suisse pour l’étude des migrations et de la population (SFM) démontre qu’il existe en Suisse un racisme structurel (systémique). L’étude définit le racisme structurel comme un système social qui reproduit des inégalités. Voyons comment les institutions politiques et médiatiques suisses participent à ces inégalités en restreignant

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