Research projects completed by november 2008

The following research projects have been completed and the final reports have been submitted. You will find summaries of the main results and further information under the individual projects. At the end of june 2007 these projects were:

Project Abel: Health cultures in Switzerland: Comparative analyses of health-related values and norms and their relevance for social integration and social exclusion in the French- and German-speaking parts of Switzerland

Project Anzenberger: Integration and exclusion as related to the structure, perception and utilization of public space

Project Bischoff: Intercultural mediation: Does it contribute to inclusion? Comparing policies and practices in the sectors of health, education, social and legal services

Project Haeberlin: The selection of trainees in small and medium-sized enterprises: Integration and exclusion at the transitional stage between school and vocational training

Project Hainard: Mechanisms of integration and exclusion through work in a changing economic and social environment

Project Jäger: The Yenish in Graubünden communities during the 19th and 20th centuries

Project Jonckheere: Social-welfare companies for insertion via economic activity in Switzerland: An analysis of the effects of their practical applications on the beneficiaries and on social policy

Project Müller: Genetics, reproductive medicine and society: Exclusion and integration effects in medicine

Project Nadai: The enforcement of the entrepreneurial self: The work of exclusion and integration in social-welfare and economy

Project Ossipow: Social workers and rehabilitation in a state welfare agency in Geneva: Representations and practices of imposed/negotiated social care

Project Riaño: Social integration and exclusion of immigrant women in Switzerland

Project Rolshoven: Integration and exclusion processes among adolescents in an educational context

Project Sablonier: File management and stigmatization. Processes of social exclusion: The „Children of the Open Road“ campaign 1926–1973

Project Sauter: Integration and exclusion in public space: An empirical study using the example of young families in their residential environment

Project Schnegg: Welfare, marginality and gender. Social work in late-19th- and 20th-century Berne: Concepts and practices of intervention

Project Sollberger: Children of parents with mental illness. Psychosocial and biographical mechanisms of exclusion and integration

Project Sommerfeld: The dynamics of integration and exclusion – interaction between personal efforts and structural conditions

Project Spycher: The potentialities of social security for the integration of foreigners in Switzerland

Project Suter: The way to integration? The role of self-employment in integration processes of immigrants in Switzerland (keyword: EthnicBusiness)

Project Studer: Citizenship between concepts of nationhood and regulation of the social sphere: Criteria for the grant or refusal of „Swiss citizenship“, from 1874 to the present

Project Tabin: The integration issue in the discourses on and the practices of social-welfare: The example of two cantons between 1893 and today

Project Tanner: Internment and integration. Coercion in psychiatry: The example of Zurich, 1870–1970

Project Vodoz: The digital divide: Its emergence and evolution, the issues it raises and its future prospects

Project Wicker: Foreigners in Swiss closed prisons: Issues of their management and the problem of resocialization in the context of national law, migration control and transnational mobility