21.08.2024 , in ((Skills and Migration))
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Kristina Schüpbach
Switzerland’s seasonal worker statute – abolished in 2002, tied residence permits to employers. According to theory, such regulation gives employers greater bargaining power in wage-setting and could lower wages. Strengthening immigrants’ social and economic rights through the Agreement on the Free Movement of People (AFMP) may have helped reduce the
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04.07.2024 , in ((Ukrainian Refugees))
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Oksana Ovsiiuk
Existing research assesses positively the introduction of the private accommodation system for Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland. This system effectively reduced the pressure on state structures during the peak period of their arrival from Ukraine. Host families, however, played a much greater role in the lives of Ukrainians than simply providing
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21.06.2024 , in ((Politica))
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Philipp Lutz
On 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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08.05.2024 , in ((Voting Rights for Non-Nationals))
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Oliver Strijbis
Nach Luxemburg ist die Schweiz das europäische Land mit dem höchsten Ausländeranteil. Da die Schweiz nicht Teil der Europäischen Union ist, kennt sie bis auf wenige kantonale und kommunale Ausnahmen kein Wahlrecht für ausländische Personen. Die Folge davon ist, dass etwa ein Viertel der Bevölkerung in der Schweiz von den
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17.04.2024 , in ((Voting Rights for Non-Nationals))
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Anna-Lena Nadler
Les 2,4 millions d’étranger·ère·s qui sont chez elles et eux en Suisse sont pour la majorité exclu·e·s de la démocratie directe dont la plupart des Suisse⸱sse⸱s sont si fier·e·s. Bien que l’extension des droits politiques aux résident⸱e⸱s étranger⸱ère⸱s fasse régulièrement l’objet de débats en Suisse, comme actuellement à Genève et
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