solidarity
What happens when you are researching a topic that is suddenly suspended and prone to alter fundamentally in the future? How are the early career prospects of mobility researchers and their sense of purpose when getting “stuck” and isolated in an unfamiliar place? While the “new normal” and its implications
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The COVID-19 crisis has had various economic and social consequences in Switzerland, particularly on the most vulnerable populations. At the same time, internationally mobile populations were also affected by border closures. Therefore, it is no wonder that among the questions that emerged were the attitudes and reactions of the native
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Si la crise du Covid-19 a affecté l’ensemble de la population, elle a particulièrement touché les personnes qui vivent dans la précarité. Comment faire pour poursuivre le soutien aux plus démuni·e·s et éviter que la crise ne vienne accentuer les inégalités sociales préexistantes ? Le combat contre la propagation du
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Crises are characterized by a serious threat, accompanied by high levels of uncertainty and an urgent need for action. The current pandemic has created such a context of fundamental uncertainty in which the ability to interpret the signs and anticipate future events in order to fully maintain the scope of
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It lies in the nature of crises that they come out of nowhere. We wake up one morning and the world is not the same anymore, it has changed, and we see ourselves suddenly confronted with a problem we had previously ignored or localized elsewhere. During such periods when it
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