Tag: covid-19

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Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times

Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times is an international digital storytelling project exploring the unique challenges faced by migrants in a time of global crisis, produced by CERC Migration and Migration Matters.

On the website, you find 12 portraits, much more than this video (this is an example of an expert statement that accompanies each portrait)! You get to hear from different individuals in a way you cannot through mainstream media.

The project also provides educational material to use these portraits in class. An excellent resource to get access to personal accounts, show the diversity of situations, and embed these scientifically!

Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times

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PhD and Postdoc opportunities in sociology

My colleague Núria Sánchez-Mira is hiring 2 PhD researchers and 2 Postdoc researchers. Come and join us in Neuchâtel!

Postdoctoral Researcher (80 – 100%)

This position will analyse, among other topics, the links between working-time autonomy and spillover and crossover effects across life domains and between couple members. Collaborations with the doctoral student position associated to the same research axis are envisaged.

Starting date: 01.09.2023
Contract length: 3 years (1 year, renewable twice)
Activity rate: 80-100% (to be discussed)
Workplace: Institut de Sociologie, Université de Neuchâtel

Deadline for application : 21.05.2023

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Postdoctoral Researcher (80 – 100%)

This position will focus on examining the gendered consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis. The appointed person will also help develop the project of an edited book on the topic.

Starting date: 01.09.2023
Contract length: 3 years (1 year, renewable twice)
Activity rate: 80-100% (to be discussed)
Workplace: Institut de Sociologie, Université de Neuchâtel

Deadline for application : 21.05.2023

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Poste d’assistant-e doctorant-e (80 – 100%)

Ce poste vise à soutenir le développement d’un projet de thèse qui s’intéressera à analyser dans une perspective de genre les effets de la digitalisation (travail de plateforme, télétravail) sur la reconfiguration des emplois du temps et les frontières entre sphères de vie.

Entrée en fonction : 01.08 ou 01.09.2023
Durée du contrat : 4 ans
Taux d’emploi : 80-100% (à discuter)
Lieu de travail : Institut de Sociologie, Université de Neuchâtel

Délai de candidature : 21.05.2023

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Poste d’assistant-e doctorant-e (80 – 100%)

Ce poste vise à soutenir un projet de thèse qui s’intéressera à examiner avec une perspective multi-acteur les dynamiques familiales en lien avec l’utilisation des technologies digitales dans les familles postséparation. Une co-direction de thèse avec la Professeure Mihaela Nedelcu est envisagée.

Entrée en fonction : 01.08 ou 01.09.2023
Durée du contrat : 4 ans
Taux d’emploi : 80-100% (à discuter)
Lieu de travail : Institut de Sociologie, Université de Neuchâtel

Délai de candidature : 21.05.2023

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Crises do not necessarily increase discrimination

Using the current pandemic as an example, we show that social and economic crises do not necessarily translate into increased levels of ethnic discrimination. We repeated a field experiment in the housing market, and find no clear evidence of increased discrimination against the most important immigrant groups in Switzerland.

How does this fit with accounts of increased levels of hate speech, especially at the beginning of the pandemic? We think it is important to differentiate between “cheap” behaviour that does not cost the perpetrator much (hate speech, exclusionary attitudes) and “costly” behaviour where the perpetrators take a risk (e.g. risk of not rending out an apartment, risk of not hiring the best candidate). Moreover, we think it is important to recognize that crises not only affect boundary making and exclusion (that’s what social theory tells us), but also increase economic uncertainty — a change that affects how (economic) actors behave.

Auer, Daniel, Didier Ruedin, and Eva Van Belle. 2023. ‘No Sign of Increased Ethnic Discrimination during a Crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic’. Socio-Economic Review. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwac069

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Out now — No Sign of Increased Ethnic Discrimination during a Crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic

At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, there’s been an increase in hate-crime again Asians in many countries around the world. Some identified more negative attitudes against immigrants — a classic case of what is known as scapegoating.

In this article, just out at the Socio-Economic Review, we wanted to know if scapegoating and discrimination of minorities is a defining feature of crises. That’s what social theory argues. In the present case, we wanted to know if ethnic discrimination increased, too — the actual (and consequential) behaviour where minorities are invited less often to view apartments they want to rent. To do so, we replicated a field experiment in the Swiss housing market at the beginning of the pandemic.

Overall, we find no evidence of increased discrimination against the most important immigrant groups in Switzerland. When digging deeper, we found that uncertainty in the housing market was important. Rather than excluding immigrants more often, proprietors and rental agencies seem to have changed their selection behaviour and focus on different signals or markers of solvency and reliability: Instead of ethnicity/minority status, now immigrants with highly skilled jobs were at an advantage.

We conclude that crises do not necessarily increase discriminatory behaviour in market situations.

Auer, Daniel, Didier Ruedin, and Eva Van Belle. 2023. ‘No Sign of Increased Ethnic Discrimination during a Crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic’. Socio-Economic Review. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwac069