Publications
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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 ...