racialization
Job seekers of Cameroonian descent face hiring discrimination in the Swiss labor market, as they must send about 30 percent more applications than candidates of Swiss origin to be invited to an interview. The results of our study suggest that black job seekers are systematically disadvantaged in the Swiss labor
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Through its Annual Risk Analysis Reports, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, also known as Frontex, disseminates a particular ideological view of migration and border control. This view seems to be based on a need to create a racialized, gendered, and illegitimate “other” to justify the border control services,
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During a crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, there seems to be an instinctive turn towards sanctuary and roots. In 2020, repatriation flights and exceptions from travel restrictions allowed particular categories of travelers to return home. But our ideas about sanctuary are also restrictive, implicitly leaning on often racialized assumptions about
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Les enfants de réfugié·e·s né·e·s en Suisse, aujourd’hui adultes et majoritairement bien intégré·e·s, ne se sentent toujours pas accepté·e·s, notamment du fait de leur phénotype ou de leurs noms dénotant une origine étrangère. Le déni racial qui existe en Suisse empêche tant l’identification que la dénonciation des processus de racialisation
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