At the SFM, we’re currently hiring a junior researcher for a project on health and discrimination. Come and join us!
Deadline: 9 June 2023
Full advert: http://www.unine.ch/files/live/sites/sfm/files/shared/documents/SFM_ZHAW.pdf
Reminder: Join us! 100% Postdoc, 24 months
We’re hiring a postdoc to research human migration and mobility.
You have a PhD in migration, sociology, demography, economics, public health, or similar (max. 5 years since PhD). You have quantitative skills (p.ex. causal inference, survey experiments, big data, text-as-data), and you’re hungry to develop your own research.
Excellent French and English needed.
Job advert, deadline 30 April 2023
Join us! 100% Postdoc, 24 months
We’re hiring a postdoc to research human migration and mobility.
You have a PhD in migration, sociology, demography, economics, public health, or similar (max. 5 years since PhD). You have quantitative skills (p.ex. causal inference, survey experiments, big data, text-as-data), and you’re hungry to develop your own research.
Excellent French and English needed.
Job advert, deadline 30 April 2023
Citizenship, Migration and Mobility in a Pandemic: The video
Reblog: Pandemic-era travel has been restricted worldwide, but not everyone has been affected equally
This is a reblog, originally published on The Loop on 14 April 2021.
International travel restrictions introduced during the pandemic constrained our freedom to travel. To understand how, we must look at the interaction between immigration status, citizenship, employment, and place of residence, write Lorenzo Piccoli, Jelena Dzankic, Timothy Jacob-Owens and Didier Ruedin
Restricting international mobility during the coronacrisis
To contain Covid-19, every government in the world has introduced restrictions on international movement. From late January 2020, these restrictions initially targeted travellers from China. But they quickly expanded to other East Asian countries, then to Iran, Italy, and soon to the entire world. We can see these policies as part of a global ‘regime of mobility’, wherein states have the power to halt movement across international borders.
But the measures did not affect everyone equally. In our project, Citizenship, Migration and Mobility in a Pandemic, we discuss four ways government restrictions to contain SARS-CoV-2 had unequal effects on different groups and individuals.
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Didier Ruedin 