Switzerland
Many migrants struggle to find work according to their skills and aspirations in Switzerland. They are forced to downsize, postpone, or completely redirect their professional ambitions. In recent years, however, migrants have started to collectively seek to improve their situations and challenge these exclusionary logics through various initiatives. Migrant-run organizations ...
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Face à la pandémie de COVID-19, les gouvernements du monde entier ont réagi en imposant des restrictions incisives de la mobilité des personnes. Dans des sociétés libérales profondément interdépendantes, ces restrictions de mobilité ont un coût social et économique important. L’incapacité à justifier et à légitimer ces restrictions incisives des libertés
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Der postmigrantische Think & Act Tank Institut Neue Schweiz INES steht für eine vielstimmige und solidarische, selbstkritische und ergebnisoffene #NeueSchweiz, die das Denken in «Wir» und «Ihr» überwindet. Das soeben erschienene gleichnamige Handbuch von INES bietet eine Standortbestimmung zu laufenden postmigrantischen, rassismuskritischen und intersektionalen Debatten. Doch wie entstand INES? Und ...
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The decision to be mobile deeply influences one’s life trajectory. Moreover, family and social networks affect and are conversely affected by one’s decision to live abroad. Our blog series on Families + Mobilities has highlighted the plurality of families, nudging us to look beyond the concept of a nuclear family
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Retirement is a key moment in the life course, and for many people, it is a time to think about relocation. Two ongoing qualitative research projects study the (im)mobility patterns of retirees, who moved to Portugal and Spain at the end of their working lives in Switzerland. In this post,
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