mobility
After eight years, five waves and over 25,000 participants, the Migration-Mobility Survey reached its final round in 2024. Its rich, longitudinal data reveal how foreign nationals in Switzerland build lives here. Moreover, the survey reveals much more than just statistics; it shows what makes life easier or harder for them
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Proposed in late 2023, the “Amalthia” corridor to bring aid into Gaza has been a failure. It is criticized by both Palestinians and humanitarian organizations as a political distraction from Israel’s campaign of genocide. Yet the Cypriot government insists that the project has not been shelved. Together with its practice ...
+ WeiterlesenOn this day, 25 years ago, Switzerland signed a bilateral agreement with the European Union to establish the free movement of persons. It is time to look back on how this issue has shaped Swiss politics thus far. The idea of the free movement of persons as reciprocal mobility rights ...
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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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