Politik + Forschung
Many problems in society can only be successfully addressed if its members are willing to cooperate, even if decisions go against their individual or group-specific short-term interests. This cooperation requires a certain level of cohesion among the members of society. Social cohesion can, therefore, be seen as one of the
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Increasing global migration streams challenge social cohesion. The present blog contribution describes several lines of research examining how social norms shape the ways both national majorities in destination countries and immigrants react to increased diversity and its consequences. Overall, this research shows how social norms operating at the national and
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New Orleans, Louisiana witnessed an influx of undocumented Latinx workers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many of those who worked in rebuilding settled with their families in the area. As reconstruction wound down from 2010 on, rates of detainment and deportation in the city increased, although local
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Das letzte Schweizer Beispiel einer «sanctuary city» ist Genf. Weshalb der in Genf gewählte Ansatz für den Schutz irregulärer Migrant*innen im schweizerischen Kontext eine Ausnahme darstellt, erklärt Marianne Halle, die an der Ausarbeitung des Pilotprojekts «Opération Papyrus» beteiligt war. Das Pilotprojekt Opération Papyrus wurde zwischen dem 21. Februar 2017 und
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Wir alle sind Bern (WasB/We are all Bern) was born out of a visioning process in December 2016 that brought together immigrants (documented and others), researchers and local NGO workers to redefine what citizenship in a globalized and urban environment looks like, and to advocate for this vision from the
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