Publications
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Soziale Arbeit und die Soziale Frage
(2018)
"For a long time, the use of the term «Social Question» was referred to as being a phenomenon of the 19th century, related to the social changes taking place during that period. Today, however, the so-called Social Question ...
Entre démocratisation et professionnalisation: le Parlement suisse et ses membres de 1910 à 2016
(2016)
This book provides a detailed historical analysis of the Swiss Parliament. It sheds light on how the profiles of parliamentarians have evolved over a century, and recounts the various legislative reforms affecting their ...
Die Nutzung von Evaluationen in den Schweizer Parlamenten
(2019)
Evaluations assess the effectiveness of a public policy using a scientific approach and thus provide bases to make effects-oriented and well-founded decisions in parliament. Although policy evaluations have been established ...
Opferstatus und Geschlecht
(2015)
Victim status and gender Development and implementation of victim assistance in Switzerland In Switzerland, the Victim of Crime Act (VCA; Opferhilfegesetz, OHG), in place since 1993, guarantees free legal, medical, ...
Héritages coloniaux
(2021)
What relationship do European countries have with their colonial past? The way they deal
with, reread, reconstruct, forget or conceal this part of their history is decisive for
understanding today’s geopolitics and for ...
Asile et abus. Asyl und Missbrauch
(2020)
The issue of asylum has polarised Swiss public opinion for the last four decades. Since its
entry into force in 1981, the Asylum Law has been revised on numerous occasions, following
a general trend toward more ...
Le bénévolat des jeunes
(2019)
What makes young people want to learn, commit and become involved in an activity? This issue is of particular interest to teachers, but also to employers. In order to provide some answers, the authors of this book are ...
Scheidung als soziales Risiko
(2024)
Separations and divorces have become much more common in the last 50 years. Almost half of the marriages or cohabiting relationships break up over time. To date, knowledge about the situation of divorced people immediately ...
Revisioning Democracy and Women’s Suffrage
(2024)
This anthology addresses the current understanding of democracy from a feminist, intersectional and transnational perspective with a particular focus on the relevance of women’s suffrage in Switzerland since 1971, and ...
Spitalplanung Schweiz
(2023)
This book brings together two current issues that are much debated in federal Switzerland: firstly, the politically salient issue of hospital planning that lies in the realm of substate competence in need of coordination, ...
Pauvres, immorales et contraintes
(2024)
This interdisciplinary book explores and analyses the adversities of single mothers during the twentieth century since nowadays in Switzerland. Thus, women who have given birth to a child out of wedlock are included in ...
Les éco-spiritualités contemporaines
(2024)
While since the 1960s, environmental degradation has been largely denounced on a global scale, this book considers that it is around 2015 that environmental mobilizations in Switzerland take a particular socio-cultural ...
Innovation et intervention sociales
(2024)
Innovation has long been associated with technology alone. This edited volume describes the development of social innovation in the social and health sectors, mainly in French-speaking Switzerland, and discusses the different ...
Economic Innovation of Transnational Migrants and Refugees in Addis Ababa
(2024)
Ethiopia lies in the Horn of Africa, surrounded by political tension and conflict. The most populated land in the region is home to millions of refugees and migrants while also exporting a large number of workers. Addis ...
Oui, c'est oui. Le consentement à l'épreuve de la justice
(2024)
This book makes a contribution to the ongoing debate surrounding the revision of Swiss sexual criminal law by presenting research into the criminal treatment of sexual violence in Geneva. By elucidating the prevailing modes ...
Accès aux soins et tri médical
(2024)
Despite a compulsory health insurance system, thousands of people in Switzerland live without health insurance coverage. Consequently, they face difficulties in obtaining healthcare. Through interviews and observations in ...
Enjeux de la formation professionnelle en Suisse
(2019)
The Swiss vocational education and training model is at the heart of an unprecedented enthusiasm. Both in Switzerland and abroad, it is praised for its management based on a public-private partnership, for its ability to ...
Arbeits(un)fähigkeit herstellen
(2018)
As most industrialised countries, Switzerland is increasingly attempting to (re)integrate people with health restrictions and disabilities into the job market. The reinforced political demand to reintegrate people with ...
Governing the Young Poor in Switzerland
(2024)
The present research deals with the policies directed at young adults on social assistance with-out vocational training (YAS). Drawing on data collected within cantonal administrations and pro-viders of integration (Basel-City ...
Collections coloniales
(2023)
Des collections coloniales sont-elles conservées dans les réserves des musées suisses ? L’étude de la provenance de fonds anciens d’ethnographie et d’histoire naturelle, conservées dans les institutions patrimoniales suisses ...
Domesticités globalisées
(2022)
Cet ouvrage interroge les trajectoires migratoires et professionnelles de femmes philippines souvent nommées les « Mercedes-Benz » des domestiques ou les « diamants du care ». Qui sont ces femmes ? Pourquoi s’engagent-elles ...
COVID-19
(2022)
Society and Social Sciences
Neue Orte für die Götter
(2022)
Since the 1980s, Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka and their descendants have been practicing Hindu traditions in diaspora countries such as Switzerland. Based on ethnographic research, the author analyses processes involved ...
Wege der Erreichbarkeit sozioökonomisch benachteiligter Familien
(2023)
Children in socio-economically deprived families are at a higher risk of developing addiction problems later on. Nevertheless, these families are hardly reached by health promotion and prevention. What are the reasons for ...
Blicke auf das Dazwischen
(2021)
Abstract in Deutsch Vier Fotoethnografien erzählen von Orten erhöhter Verdichtung und Transformation in Zürich. Im Foto- und Lesebuch Blicke auf das Dazwischen. Foto-Ethnografien zu Transformationen in Zürich zeigt die ...
Un système « de milice » sélectif
(2022)
This book is an adaptation of a doctoral thesis that studies the representativeness of the members of the local parliaments of four major Swiss cities (Zurich, Lausanne, Lucerne and Lugano) from 1945 to 2016. For this ...
Créer la ville
(2022)
Our main thesis is that rituals can foster inclusion if we focus on their communality, their transformative aspect and their conviviality, which is necessary for them to be reproduced. To demonstrate this thesis, we analysed ...
Diversité des familles et bien-être en Suisse
(2023)
A typical trajectory continues to dominate the life course in Switzerland: most people marry, have children, and adopt an unequal division of work between spouses. How can we understand this (relatively) weak diversity in ...
Migration forcée et vulnérabilité éducative
(2022)
Forced displacement invariably entails jeopardizing education. By giving parents and children a voice, this study examines the inextricable situations – wars, repressions, humanitarian crises – forcing them into exile. It ...
Narrative im Justizvollzug
(2018)
Prisons are a rich source for literary narratives – but what narratives do prison officers
themselves construct about working in a prison and their place in it? How do they talk about
their daily work with prisoners, ...
Associations de migrants et coopération internationale
(2022)
Since the global food crisis of 2008, Senegalese migrant associations have become involved in the agricultural development of their localities of origin. Through their projects they have created a transnational dynamic ...
L'islam des musées
(2022)
Paris, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Doha, Berlin, Honolulu, La Chaux-de-Fonds: each of these cities hosts a museum of Islamic art, and many more can be added to this list. Since the 2000s, and in particular after the 9/11 ...
Transitionen im Jugend- und jungen Erwachsenenalter
(2018)
Much like the first volume published in 2011, the second volume of this anthology series gathers a selection of analyses which are empirically based on the data of the Swiss panel study TREE (Transitions from Education to ...
Soziale Arbeit in der Schweizer Justizvollzugslandschaft
(2024)
Social work within the Swiss prison system—encompassing probation services and the penal system—has previously been described only in specific contexts and institutions. Until now, a comprehensive overview of this heterogeneous ...
Soziale Arbeit und Integrationspolitik in der Schweiz
(2023)
Social work professionals are among the most important actors in migrant and refugee integration. Many new tasks have emerged in this field, which are heavily influenced by immigration and asylum legislation. As a result, ...
Kategorisiert, verwaltet und platziert
(2025)
This book focuses on the question of how the Swiss state administered and governed families, parents, and their children through the measure of child placement. It reconstructs child placement processes that occurred between ...
Doing Gender Studies: Producing Knowledge Otherwise
(2025)
This volume is rooted in a commitment to epistemic justice in times of rising precarity in academia. It seeks to question the hegemonic definitions of ‘doing research’. Commitment to gender studies, as the title suggests, ...
Guardians of Land and Water
(2025)
The book offers a detailed analysis of the pluriverse of an Indigenous community in the south-eastern Himalaya. It is a rare deep-dive ethnography of the Mútunci Róng community – more commonly called by their exonym Lepcha ...
Option assistierter Suizid Wann genug ist, entscheide ich
(2022)
The question of whether and under what circumstances assisted suicide is not only in line with the law, but also ethically legitimate beyond the legal dimension, is controversially debated. The debate centers around the ...
Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit
(2021)
This book presents an overview of the results of the first standardised survey of services of open child and youth work in Switzerland, which was conducted in 2018 as a sub-project of the project Language Regions of the ...