Immigrant mothers in developed countries often experience worse pregnancy outcomes
than native women. Several epidemiological studies have described the pregnancy …

Recent studies have questioned the concept of transnationalism, showing that transnational
ties do not always have the weight attributed to them in the first studies conducted on the …

Although the percentage of foreigners residing in Switzerland is as high as 20%, it was not
until the nineties that the country set up an official integration policy. Unemployment among …

BACKGROUND The fertility of immigrants and their descendants is a crucial determinant of
population dynamics, particularly where migrants are numerous and ethnically diverse, as in …

This report considers key trends and characteristics of labour migration towards and within
Europe, including labour migrant concepts and definitions, statistics on labour migrant flows …

The publication of the series “Contributions to Regional and Migration Research” has two
primary aims: Firstly, to present research which focuses on the “region” as a geographical …

This article explores the subjective spatial relations that international schools in Switzerland
seek to produce within the cosmopolitan enclaves they form. Based on ethnographic …

Scholars generally agree that ethnicity often serves as a vehicle for mechanisms of social
inclusion or exclusion and is interwoven with the structures of nation-states. This article aims …

Die Entwicklung der Informations-und Kommunikationstechnologien hat in den letzten
Jahren infolge computerisierter und roboterisierter Herstellungsverfahren eine bisher nicht …

La Suisse est un pays multilingue. Qu'en est-il de sa population? Toutes et tous bilingues?
Selon les chiffres que l'on consulte, on pourra croire que les plurilingues sont environ 18 …