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The educational outcomes of the descendants of migrants are important indicators of migrants’ incorporation into host societies and an indicator of intergenerational social im/mobility. This paper examines this relationship using data from a survey that follows a cohort of young adults, born between 1988 and 1997, who grew up in Switzerland. It loo...
Whilst reflexive migration studies have criticised the use of categories such as ‘nationality’ and ‘second generation’ in quantitative research, several gaps on how to develop such reflexivity remain. In qualitative data, the co-construction of knowledge seems feasible during fieldwork, whereas the deductive process of quantitative research limits...
This chapter explores the transnational movements of so called ‘irregular migrants’. We investigate why and how transnational collective action is taken by people in situations of vulnerability and ask how those with limited resources manage to mobilize at the transnational level. In order to frame that core arguments, we analyse one particular eve...
Abstract This introduction to the special issue provides a critical state-of-the-art of the literature on second-generation migrants which has hitherto subsumed the case of the children of refugees. It highlights the theoretical and methodological orientations taken by the literature and examines the main findings on the second generation’s social,...
This article explores the various types of racism and racialization comparing the experiences of descendants of Kurdish, Tamil, and Vietnamese refugees in Switzerland. Drawing on qualitative data from 45 interviews, the article shows that children of refugees experience several forms of racialization, the impact of which varies. The article shows t...
The deconstruction of the moral polity around forced migration proposed by Thomas Faist in his article “The moral polity of forced migration” can, in some ways, be interpreted as an analysis of the failure of global migration governance. In this comment, I review the challenges faced by those claiming their human rights, suggesting – in addition to...
Even though there is a long tradition of red-light districts
(RLD) being concentrated within the city centre, gentrification
policies in many European cities now aim at spatially
dispersing the sex market (and its workers) to the fringes of
the city. Moving RLDs out of the city centre (or transforming
them into more-upscale entertainment provi...
Debates about human rights have often questioned their potential for generating rights at national levels. In this paper we use the case of irregular migrants’ access to healthcare in the United Kingdom (UK) and France to explore the extent to which international human rights influence national healthcare provisions for irregular migrants. We explo...
This article discusses how local diversity is being experienced by Somali immigrants who have previously lived in the Netherlands and are now residing in London. It explores the various challenges and potential advantages of living in homogenous urban areas within a super-diverse city and focuses on three situations: (1) when homogeneity is functio...
Why and how do those who by definition seek to avoid the attention of the public and who lack resources manage to mobilize collectively? Comparing the situation of irregular migrants in three European cities (Copenhagen, London and Paris), this article aims to provide some understanding of the reasons for the mobilization, or absence of mobilizatio...
This introduction to the special issue ‘Irregular Migrants: Policy, Politics,
Motives and Everyday Lives’ outlines the changing patterns of irregular
migration at the end of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first
century, explores the ways in which irregular migration has been
analysed conceptually and empirically, highlights the c...
Irregular migration is an important issue in contemporary societies. This article explores the changing position of irregular migrants from two angles. First, we analyse the impact of irregular migration on conceptions of rights and citizenship. This is of particular interest at a time when even the rights of 'regular' migrants are subject to much...
This introduction to the special issue ‘Irregular Migrants: Policy, Politics, Motives and Everyday Lives’ outlines the changing patterns of irregular migration at the end of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first century, explores the ways in which irregular migration has been analysed conceptually and empirically, highlights the c...
This article analyses the trajectories of female migrant sex workers in Switzerland, and discusses the ambivalently empowering and disempowering subjective experiences of the people involved in their varying local contexts. It shows that sex work represents, on the one hand, a chance for women to migrate legally, to find work in order to achieve th...
The values and issues shaping either the debates or the regulation of prostitution seem to be recurrent. If new topics, such as irregular migration, smuggling or trafficking in human beings have met others which are more focused on purely moral questions, they are still based on old oppositions : an egalitarian perception (aiming an universalistic...
Résumé Cet article questionne au travers du marché du sexe, la place accordée à la sexualité dans la ville, la délimitation entre sexualité légitime et illégitime, la construction sociale de cette spatialité sexuelle, et ses dimensions constitutives. L’analyse des dynamiques urbaines, économiques et politiques qui touchent le marché du sexe permet...
This article questions through the topic of sex market the place that is given to sexuality in the city : the delimitation between legitimate and illegitimate sexuality, the social construction of the sexual spatiality and its constitutive dimensions. The analyses of the urban, economical and political dynamics regarding sex market allow to underst...
The values and issues shaping either the debates or the regulation of prostitution seem to be recurrent. If new topics, such as irregular migration, smuggling or trafficking in human beings have met others which are more focused on purely moral questions, they are still based on old oppositions : an egalitarian perception (aiming an universalistic...
The values and issues shaping either the debates or the regulation of prostitution seem to be recurrent. If new topics, such as irregular migration, smuggling or trafficking in human beings have met others which are more focused on purely moral questions, they are still based on old oppositions : an egalitarian perception (aiming an universalistic...
This article questions through the topic of sex market the place that is given to sexuality in the city : the delimitation between legitimate and illegitimate sexuality, the social construction of the sexual spatiality and its constitutive dimensions. The analyses of the urban, economical and political dynamics regarding sex market allow to underst...
Cette évaluation a été réalisée dans des conditions idéales, car le législateur a fixé dans la Loi sur l'intégration des étrangers du 28 juin 2001, République et canton de Genève (LI) une clause évaluative (dans le chapitre VI) libellée comme suit : « commission d'évaluation indépendante est chargée d'évaluer la loi, son application et les différen...
Im vorliegenden Bericht wird der institutionalisierte Einsatz von Sprachmitteln und interkultureller Vermittelung unter einer theoretischen Perspektive betrachtet und deren Potentiale und Herausforderungen für die Integration der Migrationsbevölkerung analysiert. Letztlich liegt somit ein fundiertes Argumentarium zu Sinn und Zweck dieser Dienstleis...
Es ist bekannt, dass sich prekäre Lebens- und Aufenthaltsbedingungen negativ auf die Gesundheit auswirken. Diese durch das BAG finanzierte Studie geht der Frage nach, wie MigrantInnen in prekären Aufenthaltssituationen mit ihren unsicheren Lebensumständen umgehen. Welche individuellen und strukturellen Ressourcen helfen ihnen, die damit verbundenen...
Le présent rapport porte sur l’application des sanctions et leurs conséquences pour les travailleurs clandestins et leurs employeurs à Genève. Le but de cette étude est de mettre en parallèle l'application du traitement qui leur est réservé, sachant que les conséquences ne peuvent être strictement identiques pour les deux parties concernées. Cette...
Ce document présente les bases scientifiques d'une recherche sur laquelle s'appuie la stratégie de la Confédération dans le domaine "Migration et santé" pour les années 2002-2006. Il s'agit d'un rapport de base d'une étude Delphi fondée sur les opinions des représentants et des experts de ce milieu. Ce texte contient une présentation du contexte de...
Dans le présent rapport le programme suisse dans le domaine "migration et santé" est présenté et évalué. Un positionnement international, une reconstruction historique des étapes principales du développement et une évaluation des activités, des approches et du déroulement organisationnel sont au centre de ce texte. Une attention particulière a été...
Im vorliegenden Bericht wird das schweizerische Programm im Bereich "Migration und Gesundheit" vorgestellt und evaluiert. Eine internationale Einstufung, eine historische Rekonstruktion der wichtigsten Etappen der Entwicklung, sowie eine Evaluation der Tätigkeiten, Ansätze und organisatorischen Abläufe stehen im Zentrum des Textes. Ein besonderes A...
