migration irrégulière
Civil conflict embroiled El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s leading to an exodus of refugees seeking asylum in the United States. These events birthed the sanctuary movement, and later the sanctuary city movement. The second growth of sanctuary cities came in response to Bush’s Post-9/11 era immigration security crackdown.
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On October last year, we held an event series entitled « Sanctuary Cities in Switzerland? » about the meaning of a sanctuary city and whether this phenomenon also exists in Switzerland. The nccr – on the move supported event series laid the grounds for an in-depth consideration of the issue of sanctuary
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Die Diskussionen um das Dublin-System in der Schweiz konzentrieren sich meist auf die Zahl der in ein anderes Land überstellten Personen. Dabei bleibt verborgen, dass diese «Transfers» oft weniger mechanisch ablaufen, als es der Begriff suggeriert. Hunderte von Personen werden jährlich administrativ inhaftiert, bevor sie in den für sie zuständigen
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When examining how migration laws and policies are implemented, the relation between those written texts and enacted practices becomes of crucial interest. This was highlighted in our collaborative research on contested migration control in the Schengen Area. In the following, we will focus on the Dublin Regulation and its implementation
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With increasingly restrictive migration regimes throughout Europe and a ‘race-to-the bottom’- attitude of previously more generous states to only follow the minimal legal requirements set by the European Union, third actors involved in the ‘migration industry’ are often caught in a moral dilemma. States increasingly outsource migration control to NGOs
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