22.10.2020 , in ((Swiss Asylum Policy and Legislation))
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Raphaël Rey
Après que les autorités suisses ont durci leur pratique à l’encontre des Érythréen·ne·s en 2017, nombreux·euses sont ceux et celles qui reçoivent des décisions négatives à leurs demandes d’asile. Dans un rapport publié en novembre 2018, et une actualisation de celui-ci à paraître cet hiver, l’Observatoire romand du droit d’asile
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20.10.2020 , in ((Swiss Asylum Policy and Legislation))
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Lea Hungerbühler
Seit März 2019 ist das neue Schweizer Asylverfahren in Kraft. Ziel dieser Gesetzesnovelle war es, die Asylverfahren zu beschleunigen und den Rechtsschutz durch unentgeltliche Rechtsvertretung sicher zu stellen. Wie wurde dies in Realität umgesetzt? Wie fühlt es sich für eine geflüchtete Person an, dieses Eilverfahren zu durchlaufen? Und wie hat
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23.04.2020 , in ((COVID-19 + Mobility, Politics))
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Constantin Hruschka
This is a repost of a blog contribution published at the Kaldor Center on 9 April 2020. In theory, international protection in Europe is well governed. All States are bound by the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The European Union Member
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01.04.2020 , in ((Social Cohesion Beyond Nation State))
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Katrin Sontag
This blog post looks at activists and projects that support homeless refugees as an example of social cohesion through solidarity that takes place in local or transnational networks. In political and media discourse, there is sometimes a fear of insufficient social cohesion referring to nation states – e.g., the cohesion
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19.03.2020 , in ((COVID-19 + Mobility, Practices))
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Lorenzo Piccoli and Jelena Dzankic
The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency, but it also has the potential to impact on many other elements of European societies beyond health services. Jelena Dzankic and Lorenzo Piccoli write on the effect the outbreak is having on the uses and meanings of citizenship. The rapid spread of
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