policy+research
Even before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, research on restrictions to mobility in the context of public health emergencies had already highlighted a few key insights. We know, for example, that travel restrictions are driven by epidemiological, diplomatic and economic considerations; they cause major disruptions; and different communities use
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Integration policies are often perceived in academic works as gatekeeping instruments but, while they can certainly be deployed as such, this framing does not fully represent the variety of immigrant perspectives in my study. My own positionality as an immigrant, applicant for a spousal visa, and a researcher prompted lines
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The social realities of elderly persons in Balkan-Swiss families have rarely been studied, in contrast to Italian or Spanish seniors in Switzerland. For the latter, different services are available, from mother-tongue counseling to Mediterranean wards in retirement homes. Due to the specific migration history between the Balkans and the Swiss
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The notion of abuse is omnipresent in the public debate on asylum. This discursive device has emerged as the inseparable counterpart of asylum both in social and political discourse as well as in the practices of actors implementing asylum law. It is a lens through which the problems and solutions
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Près de quarante ans après l’entrée en vigueur de la première loi suisse sur l’asile, cette série de blogs se penche sur certains des enjeux passés et présents des politiques d’asile menées en Suisse et en Europe. Ce billet introductif revient brièvement sur trois bouleversements importants survenus dans les années
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