27.10.2022 , in ((Overcoming Inequalities))
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Eva Van Belle and Petra Sidler
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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21.10.2022 , in ((Overcoming Inequalities))
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Didier Ruedin
In Western countries, we observe that some employers and landlords discriminate against people with a name indicating that they are from a minority group. Research has shown that if you have a name signaling that you are an ‘immigrant’ or belong to an ‘ethnic minority,’ the chances of being invited
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07.09.2022 , in ((Overcoming Inequalities))
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Wassilis Kassis
As the level of reported well-being declines worldwide, scholars have started highlighting patterns of well-being at different stages of life and the socio-ecological factors that contribute to producing inequalities to design appropriate prevention and intervention programs, and inform social policies. At the beginning of the 2008 recession, the level of
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01.03.2022 , in ((Politics))
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Christina Mittmasser
De nombreux·ses migrant·e·s peinent à trouver un emploi correspondant à leurs compétences et à leurs aspirations en Suisse. Ils/elles sont contraint·e·s de baisser, de reporter ou de réorienter complètement leurs ambitions professionnelles. Cependant, ces dernières années, les migrant·e·s ont commencé à chercher collectivement à améliorer leur situation et à contester
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22.02.2022 , in ((COVID-19 + Mobility, Politics))
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Pranav Kuttaiah
Alors que les discours sur la migration se concentrent souvent sur les frontières internationales et les réfugié·e·s, la première vague de la pandémie de COVID-19 a mis en lumière la migration interne. C’est ce qui s’est passé en Inde, où le statut en matière de logement et d’emploi, la caste,
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