A New Pact on Migration and Asylum: What Changes for Responsibility-Sharing in the European Union?

28.02.2024 , in ((Politics)) , ((No Comments))
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After more than three years of negotiations and just before the upcoming elections of the European Parliament, the European Union (EU) reached a provisional agreement on a new migration deal. Hailed as a historic agreement that will overhaul the EU’s migration and asylum policy framework, how would this deal change ...

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Internationale Mobilität im Alter: Luxus oder Flucht aus der Prekarität?

22.02.2024 , in ((Transnational Ageing)) , ((No Comments))

Auslandschweizer*innen stehen im Fokus politischer und medialer Debatten rund um die Volksinitiative «Für ein besseres Leben im Alter», besser bekannt als Initiative für eine 13. AHV-Rente. Die Rede ist von Luxusrenten und massiver Bevorteilung von Rentner*innen im Ausland. Die Gegenrede verweist auf die zunehmenden finanziellen Schwierigkeiten von Rentner*innen und die ...

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Is It Still Worth Arguing Over the Concept of “Climate Refugee”?

20.02.2024 , in ((Climate-Induced Migration)) , ((No Comments))

Refugee lawyers have long contested the popular use of the term “climate refugee.” What could seem like legal nitpicking has the merit of highlighting major differences in legal categories. It also reveals international law’s current inability to offer adequate systematic solutions to forced cross-border displacement caused by climate change. Nonetheless, ...

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Environment-Induced Mobilities: The Stories that the Field Tells

08.02.2024 , in ((Climate-Induced Migration)) , ((No Comments))

In Sundarban, India, my conversation with a Bangladeshi woman challenged the common perceptions surrounding environment-induced mobilities, since she cited insufficient income as the primary reason behind moving with her family. This made me look beyond the “obvious” during a six-month exploration using Feminist Participatory Action Research, revealing the interplay between ...

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A Pacific Perspective on Climate-Related Migration

31.01.2024 , in ((Climate-Induced Migration)) , ((No Comments))

Pacific Island countries have globally been at the forefront of research, media, and policy discussions on climate mobility. These island nations have been predominantly categorized as “climate migrant-sending countries” – particularly so in Europe, where media and Western scholarship have painted an overly simplistic picture in which “all Pacific Islands ...

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