The most read blog posts of 2018
The nccr – on the move blog has been read by over 2000 people during 2018. The most popular post is «High-Skilled but Unemployed: The Absence of Expat Wives from the Labor Market», by Kate Kirk. The three most read contributions of the year are dealing with family migration and the labor market, the withdrawal of Swiss citizenship, and the Common European Asylum System.
The most read blog post of 2018 is an article by Kate Kirk, who is a lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, University of Leiden. In her article, High-Skilled but Unemployed: The Absence of Expat Wives from the Labor Market, she explains the reasons why many of the Indian «expat wives» in the Netherlands are unemployed in spite of speaking fluent English and holding qualifications that equal those of their husbands. The article was read over 650 times in less than a month.
The second most read post of 2018 is an older article written in 2016 by Barbara von Rütte and Stefanie Kurt, respectively a doctoral student at the University of Bern and a professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Siders. In the article, «Ist die Schweiz zum Entzug der Staatsangehörigkeit berechtigt?», they explain why the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) opened for the first time a procedure concerning the withdrawal of Swiss citizenship. The affected man is a Swiss-Italian dual citizen who grew up in Switzerland and is said to have joined the «Islamic State» in Syria in 2015. Three years later, the article continues to be one of the most accessed resources of our blog, with over 350 readers in 2018 alone.
The third most read post of 2018 has also been written in 2016 by Sarah Progin-Theuerkauf, a professor at the University of Fribourg. In the article, The “Dublin IV”-Proposal: One Step Forward and Ten Steps Back …, she presents the three proposals of the European Commission to reform the Common European Asylum System. Up to date, none of these proposals has been approved: the reform has stalled because several member states strictly refuse the planned corrective mechanism for a fair sharing of responsibility. The article was read over 300 times during the year, demonstrating the continued attention of our readers to asylum seekers and European Union (EU) policies in this field.
