Dahinden, Janine

2024, Piccoli, Lorenzo, Matteo Gianni, Ruedin, Didier, Achermann, Christin, Dahinden, Janine, Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Nedelcu, Mihaela, Zittoun, Tania

Categorising certain forms of human movement as ‘migration’ and others as ‘mobility’ has far-reaching consequences. We introduce the migration–mobility nexus as a framework for other researchers to interrogate the relationship between these two categories of human movement and explain how they shape different social representations. Our framework articulates four ideal-typical interplays between categories of migration and categories of mobility: continuum (fluid mobilities transform into more stable forms of migration and vice versa), enablement (migration requires mobility, and mobility can trigger migration), hierarchy (migration and mobility are political categories that legitimise hierarchies of movement) and opposition (migration and mobility are pitted against each other). These interplays reveal the normative underpinnings of different categories, which we argue are too often implicit and unacknowledged.

2009-6, Dahinden, Janine, Crevoisier, Olivier

2007, Gabadinho, Alexis, Wanner, Philippe, Dahinden, Janine

Le monitoring de la santé des migrants est une enquête s’inscrivant dans la stratégie "migration et santé" adoptée par le Conseil fédéral en 2002. Elle vise à recueillir des informations détaillées sur la santé de populations qui sont mal représentées dans les sources de statistiques généralement disponibles. Il s’agit notamment de personnes ne maîtrisant pas une des langues nationales et des requérants d’asile. Cette étude présente les résultats d’une analyse statistique ayant pour objectif de mettre en évidence le rôle du profil sociodémographique, socioéconomique et migratoire sur l’état de santé, les comportements et facteurs de risque, les recours aux services de santé, la prévention et le dépistage des maladies. Elle été mandatée par l’Office fédéral de la santé publique.

2006, Lerch, Mathias, Dahinden, Janine, Wanner, Philippe

2020-10-12, Schaer, Martine, Jacot, Cédric, Dahinden, Janine

Academic mobility is increasingly presented as indispensable for a successful academic career. This imperative is rooted in the assumption that mobility contributes to academic excellence because it allows academics to build transnational academic networks. Based on biographical interviews and an analysis of the mobility networks of early‐career academics at three universities (Zurich, Cambridge, and UCLA), we examine the composition of these academics’ networks at different times and discuss the role of transnational ties within them. We find that increased mobility does indeed result in more transnational networks, but it does not increase academic social capital. The additional transnational ties mainly consist of transnational kinship and friendship relations. Furthermore, the mobility of early‐career academics triggers various forms of mobility among their family members. Finally, early‐career academics can build transnational academic ties without necessarily becoming mobile themselves, thanks to the mobility of higher‐ranked academics.

2009, Dahinden, Janine, Crevoisier, Olivier

2007, Lerch, Mathias, Dahinden, Janine, Wanner, Philippe

Given the growing importance of migrant remittances for transition economies, their impact on economic development is a major policy concern. The study focuses on the supply side of these financial flows by assessing the remittance behaviour of Serbian migrants in Switzerland, one of the major immigrant countries in Europe. The majority of Serbs in Switzerland are involved in interpersonal economic transfers to Serbia. The large majority of senders use informal remittances channels. An economic integration of the migrant households, as well as close transnational relations increase not only the likelihood to remit but also the amounts transferred. The stability of remittances may depend on future migration flows, since the amounts sent drop when length of stay increases.

2019, Crettaz, Eric, Dahinden, Janine

Transnational studies have been in vogue for the past two decades. Nevertheless, there remain important knowledge gaps concerning migrants’ transnational formations. First, most of the literature relies on qualitative case studies. The few existing quantitative studies have shown that transnationality is far from being a “lifestyle” and that factors other than individual preferences are at play. Second, most studies in this field focus on one nationally defined group, which renders impossible the elaboration of an overall model of transnationality that goes beyond description. Third, few studies have tried to link the question of transnationality simultaneously to migration and mobility. To address these gaps, we propose here an analysis of migrant transnationality based on the Migration-Mobility Survey. We define transnationality along three dimensions. We make a distinction between transnational (pre-and-post-migration) mobilities, network transnationality and transnational belonging. We use regression models and multiple correspondence analysis to identify the prevalence of transnationality and the main determinants of transnational patterns. The analysis confirms the hypothesis that transnationality can be linear – an “automatic effect” of migration – resource-dependent, but also reactive upon discrimination. Migrant transnationality can simultaneously be a sign of possessing high resources – most importantly, in terms of legal capital, education and economic resources – or of discrimination. Furthermore, our analysis brings to light five ideal-typical configurations of what we call the Migration-Mobility-Transnationality Nexus. Our analysis contributes to this book by investigating the Migration-Mobility-Nexus with respect to transnationality, going beyond the normative ideas of migration and mobility by integrating them analytically into one model.

2009, Dahinden, Janine, Crevoisier, Olivier

2007, Lerch, Mathias, Dahinden, Janine, Wanner, Philippe