Publications
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
La religion à l'école
(2017)
In the last few decades, the organization of religious education classes in Swiss public school has been the object of profound public scrutiny. In the wake of these debates, most cantons have introduced a new course under ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
COVID-19
(2022)
Society and Social Sciences
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 ...
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 ...
Ambivalenz der Wiedereingliederung
(2021)
"Employers and insurances in Switzerland have introduced new instruments to support the return to work process of sick workers. A key instrument in this regard has been the introduction of case managers in companies. But ...
Dans la jungle des permis de séjour
(2020)
Véritable plongée dans les méandres du système de l'asile, cette étude propose de suivre les trajectoires des réfugiés à partir de leur arrivée en Suisse. S'appuyant sur une remarquable compilation de données issues de la ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sortons du ghetto
(2021)
This book reveals little-known facets on the history of homosexuality in Switzerland. It
is based on a detailed analysis of the revision of criminal law in sexual matters, the
discourse of groups of key actors (lawyers, ...