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Post-Pandemic Migration Dynamics: Impact on Africa’s Early Career Scholars in Border and Migration Studies

Samuel Okunade — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:51:43 +0000

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, migration has increasingly become a focal point in the populist rhetoric dominating political discourse in many Western countries. This shift is characterized by heightened securitization of borders, restrictive visa regimes, and an overt discouragement of migration from the Global South, particularly Africa. These developments hinder human

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Endless Waiting: S-Permit Holders in the Limbo of Permanent Temporariness

Saskia Greyling — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:14:43 +0000

In 2022, Switzerland decided to grant the S permit to Ukrainian nationals fleeing the war. 66,000 Ukrainians continued to live in the country with this status in 2024, according to the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). While it gives them safety and generous rights, the permit must be renewed

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Can You Write a Paper in a Day?

Sara de Athouguia Filipe — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:00:50 +0000

In the spirit of a hackathon, we, a team of researchers, launched an ambitious project to write a complete academic paper in a day. While facing challenges such as time constraints as well as difficulties in collaborative simultaneous writing, by the end of the day, we kind of succeeded in

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Swiss Net Emigration Reaches 2006 Levels

Michael Siegenthaler — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:35:29 +0000

In 2023, it is anticipated that Switzerland’s net immigration within its foreign permanent resident population will most likely reach a new record level. This can be attributed to its dynamic labor market and the inclusion of refugees from Ukraine, the majority of whom will be recognized as part of the

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What’s Sex Got to Do With It? Migration Studies Meets Sexualities

Calogero Giametta — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:30:36 +0000

Migration research has historically conceived migrants as heterosexual, and rendered gender and sexual identity invisible. It is only recently that the intersection of queer and migration studies has produced critical knowledge about the heteronormative structures that govern immigration institutions. Queer migration studies emphasize the theorization of queer migration histories and

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Twenty Years of ‘Reflexive’ Migration Studies: Introduction to the Blog Series

Janine Dahinden — Tue, 31 May 2022 08:32:34 +0000

Research about migration has arguably been dominated by a western-, and nation-state-centered perspective. In response, reflexive debates on knowledge production have addressed methodological nationalism and colonial legacies, but also androcentrism, heteronormativity and other problematic features in scientific approaches to human mobility. This blog series aims to take stock of the

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