MIPEX since 1848
In a new paper we explore how Swiss immigration and integration policies have developed in Switzerland between 1848 and 2014. The Swiss Political Science Review have done a marvellous job in getting...
View ArticleNeed Data from the SOM Project? You Can!
From time to time I get asked when the data from the SOM Project on the politicization of immigration will be available. It’s already there! The principal data have been available from the project...
View ArticleOvercoming Warnings when Importing SPSS Files to R
R can import SPSS files quite easily, using the package foreign and the read.spss command. It usually works quite well out of the box, so well that I usually choose the SPSS file when downloading...
View Article“Why Don’t Immigrants Vote More?”— Participation in Local Elections Published
My paper on the electoral participation of immigrants in local elections is now available online (Parliamentary Affairs). As part of this research, I spoke to a politician who exclaimed: ‘Why don’t...
View ArticleMac *.txt.rtfd to *.txt
In a recent project, an assistant used TextEdit to supposedly save documents as pure (UTF-8) text files. We managed to fix the workflow, but I was left with a bunch of Zip files full of *.rtf from...
View ArticleOut now! A Global Dataset of COVID-19 Restrictions on Human Movement
I’m very happy to announce a new publication describing a new, global dataset of COVID-19 restrictions on human movement. In the research note, we introduce the Citizenship, Migration and Mobility in...
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