Migration
In Sundarban, India, my conversation with a Bangladeshi woman challenged the common perceptions surrounding environment-induced mobilities, since she cited insufficient income as the primary reason behind moving with her family. This made me look beyond the “obvious” during a six-month exploration using Feminist Participatory Action Research, revealing the interplay between
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Pacific Island countries have globally been at the forefront of research, media, and policy discussions on climate mobility. These island nations have been predominantly categorized as “climate migrant-sending countries” – particularly so in Europe, where media and Western scholarship have painted an overly simplistic picture in which “all Pacific Islands
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As Covid-19 emerged globally, the pandemic was seized as an opportunity to experiment with forms of hygienic-sanitary containment and deterrence, often targeting vulnerable mobile populations. While the virus did not “respect” borders, borders multiplied, both on land and at sea. Yet, despite varied attempts, the Mediterranean Sea could not be
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La Suisse, comme de nombreux pays industrialisés, fait face à une diminution progressive du nombre d’enfants au sein de la population possédant la nationalité Suisse, ce qui impacte sa structure démographique et accroît le vieillissement. A l’inverse, de par un nombre d’enfants moyen plus élevé, les femmes étrangères freinent ce
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Vorhersagen des Bundesamtes für Statistik sehen uns auf eine Schweiz mit 10 Millionen Einwohner*innen zusteuern. Allerdings werden sich diese sehr ungleich über das Staatsgebiet verteilen: Bestehende Ballungsräume werden noch grösser, periphere Gebiete relativ und zum Teil auch absolut gesehen gar kleiner. Mit ein Faktor für diese zunehmende territoriale Ungleichheit ist
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