Publications
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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 ...
Gute Betreuung im Alter in der Schweiz
(2018)
Apart from financing retirement provision, assistance and care for elderly people ist he central issue in Swiss politics concerning elderly people. While medical care has been in focus of the discourse about health and ...
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 ...
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, ...
Travailler dans la grande distribution
(2019)
What does it mean to work in the retail sector today? In Switzerland, two giants share almost the whole market. In order to stay competitive, they intensify the work, demand more availability from their employees and deskill ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Selbstverständlich – und doch umstritten
(2023)
This study focuses on the relationship between organizations and society in the field of gender equality in Switzerland. The empirical research examines how companies and nonprofit organizations deal with the concern of ...
Construire le monde du hardcore
(2019)
An invitation to an ethnographic journey in the world of hardcore punk and beyond, this study explores the plurality of practices underlying the existence of this “music-based subculture.” Based on a fine-grained, in-depth ...
Un/doing Race
(2022)
What is the meaning of race, racialization and racism in Switzerland and how are they related to Switzerland's colonial heritage? How has the approach to racism changed historically? What role does anti-racist activism ...
Naturalisation
(2022)
Who decides what criteria are used to determine who can become Swiss? Which imaginaries of Swissness are mobilised in the context of naturalisation? Why is Swiss naturalisation policy so restrictive in international ...
Blicke auf das Dazwischen
(2021)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bleiberecht in der Gastro-Küche
(2020)
Right to stay in the gastro-kitchen
Migration policy regulations and working conditions of refugees with precarious residence permit status
Asylum policy is labour market policy. Yet, the demarcation lines in migration ...