Integration
During a crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, there seems to be an instinctive turn towards sanctuary and roots. In 2020, repatriation flights and exceptions from travel restrictions allowed particular categories of travelers to return home. But our ideas about sanctuary are also restrictive, implicitly leaning on often racialized assumptions about
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During the 90th minute of the 2018 World Cup, when there was a draw between Switzerland and Serbia, Xherdan Shaqiri scored for Switzerland. Emotions ran high as Shaqiri celebrated his goal with a gesture indicating a double eagle, similar to that gestured by another player Granit Xhaka earlier in the ...
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Recent research focuses on how immigrants, refugees, and their descendants fare in school and in the labor market. While most of these studies point towards a disadvantage for non-natives, less is known about how these people deal with this discrimination and become agents of their own destinies. It may therefore
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Durch weltweite Migrationsbewegungen entsteht nicht nur in der Gesellschaft, sondern auch im Schulkontext eine kulturelle Heterogenität. Jugendliche mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund treffen in der Schule somit auf Mitschüler*innen, welche unterschiedliche kulturelle Hintergründe haben. Neuste Forschungsresultate zeigen auf, dass Jugendliche mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund die gemeinsame Integration bevorzugen und von Schulen
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‘Respecting the values of the constitution’ is one of the most recent requirements in Swiss integration law. In the last decades, academic voices reproducing narratives of ‘cultural distance’ have contributed to the emergence of the requirement and the conception of integration more broadly. Culturalist integration imaginaries have shaped and continue
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