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Stranded in Academic Mobility: The Isolating Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic

16.03.2021 , in ((COVID-19 + Early Career Academics)) , ((No Comments))
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Mobility is a key criterion for assessing academic excellence. International mobility undoubtedly allows junior researchers to have essential experiences and broaden their networks. Nevertheless, the difficulties that go along with mobility – relocation of family members, administrative burdens, and informal connections with the host institution – can reduce these potential ...

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Fading Career Prospects of Mobility Researchers “Stuck” in Immobility?

17.02.2021 , in ((COVID-19 + Early Career Academics, Experiences)) , ((No Comments))
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What happens when you are researching a topic that is suddenly suspended and prone to alter fundamentally in the future? How are the early career prospects of mobility researchers and their sense of purpose when getting “stuck” and isolated in an unfamiliar place? While the “new normal” and its implications ...

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Le respect des droits culturels des migrant·e·s en Europe et en Suisse – Une perspective juridique

26.11.2020 , in ((Politics, Practices)) , ((No Comments))

En Europe, comme partout dans le monde, les personnes étrangères – selon la terminologie du droit européen, les « ressortissant·e·s d’États tiers », non des pays de l’UE ou des pays associés comme la Suisse – rencontrent de nombreux obstacles à l’exercice de leurs droits culturels, et ce à plusieurs niveaux. Elles ...

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Immobilia

24.11.2020 , in ((Migration and Mobility in 2050)) , ((No Comments))

This is a repost of a blog that has first been published in the COMPAS Coronavirus and Mobility Forum on 15 May 2020.  No-one quite imagined it would turn out this way: a world segregated between Isolationists and Openers. But they were not divided by nation state borders – one ...

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