minorities
La discrimination ne concerne pas seulement les étrangers·ères dans leur parcours d’intégration. Des études récentes montrent en effet que des citoyen·ne·s suisses y sont également confronté·e·s : la discrimination ne concerne donc pas seulement la diversité aux portes du pays, mais également la diversité interne au pays, constituée par des
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Methodological nationalism has been omnipresent in migration theory and research since the publication of a famous article by Wimmer and Glick Schiller in 2002. However, with respect to scientific conferences and gatherings in which scholars debate these issues, this type of interrogation has been absent. In what follows, I will ...
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In view of the upcoming Swiss national parliamentary elections this year, we discuss discrimination by voters against immigrant-origin candidates. Such discrimination in elections poses major challenges to liberal Western democracies and may contribute to the persisting political underrepresentation of the population with a migration background in Switzerland as in many
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In terms of its societal functioning, one could argue that Switzerland is a failed state, because we didn’t manage to put merit over prejudice. Every day, we, as a society, are at the same time victims and perpetrators of discrimination. It’s a complex topic, but one thing is for sure:
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Im Jahr 2018 hatten mehr als ein Drittel der Schweizer Wohnbevölkerung über 15 Jahre einen Migrationshintergrund, die meisten davon sind Einwanderer*innen der ersten Generation. Oft zeigt sich dieser Migrationshintergrund im Namen. Allerdings gibt es bisher nur wenig Daten, in wie fern sich solch ein ausländisch klingender Name auf die Chancengleichheit
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