Claudio Bolzman

• HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland

The educational outcomes of the descendants of migrants are important indicators of migrants’ incorporation into host societies and an indicator of intergenerational social im/mobility. This paper examines this relationship using data from a survey that follows a cohort of young adults, born between 1988 and 1997, who grew up in Switzerland. It loo...

Cet article explore les formes de configurations familiales et de « faire fa-mille » des anciens exilés chiliens obligés de se séparer d'une partie de leurs proches en raison de la persécution politique. Il s'agit d'examiner les effets de l'exil sur le fonctionnement familial et les manières d'y faire face afin de maintenir des liens à distance ave...

Claudio Bolzman, Tineke Fokkema and Danique van Dalen explore the social relationships of Swiss, Dutch and Belgian international retirement migrants (IRMs) in Morocco—specifically, who they have contact with and the nature of the interactions (e.g., egalitarian/hierarchical, trustful/mistrustful, unidimensional/multidimensional). Their analysis of...

Older migrants constitute a heterogeneous population, an aspect that is rarely acknowledged in the literature. This chapter shows how older migrants from the same country of origin but with different migration contexts make use of welfare provisions in their host country. By migration contexts, we mean socio-political situations in the home and hos...

This chapter focuses on a relatively unexplored phenomenon concerning transnational families: family reunification of an ascendant. It combines theories of the transnational life course, intergenerational relations, and citizenship negotiation. It is based on a qualitative research conducted in French-speaking Switzerland using semi-structured inte...

Whilst reflexive migration studies have criticised the use of categories such as ‘nationality’ and ‘second generation’ in quantitative research, several gaps on how to develop such reflexivity remain. In qualitative data, the co-construction of knowledge seems feasible during fieldwork, whereas the deductive process of quantitative research limits...

La migration tardive des ressortissant.e.s des pays riches vers des pays plus pauvres est de plus en plus fréquente. Elle est portée par des motivations d’ordre tant culturel que social et économique. Si de plus en plus d’auteur.e.s s’intéressent à cette pratique, ils et elles ne s’intéressent que rarement aux cas des personnes quittant la Suisse....

This paper discusses the construction of personal geographies of (im)mobility among Romanian older migrants in Switzerland and those who moved back to Romania after having lived in Switzerland. The analysis draws on 32 biographical narrative interviews with Romanian migrants aged 57 and older. This is a heterogeneous population consisting of former...

This open access wide-ranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying second-generation immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. Tightly focused on methodological aspects, both quantitative and qualitative, the volume features the work of authors from numerous countries, from differing discipline...

The main objective of this volume is to explore the methodological challenges and innovations in empirical research on second-generation residents—the children of migrants—including their transitions to adulthood and their integration into the societies in which they live. Although the number of studies on this topic has increased considerably in t...

This paper explores the following question: Which forms of care are used by older migrants compared to older natives in Switzerland? Access to care is an important issue for older people. Health problems and the reduction of the functional abilities can lead older people to become more vulnerable and dependent on social support. Many forms of care...

This paper focuses on older Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese migrants who spent their working lives in Switzerland and explores their different forms of geographical mobility between Switzerland and their home countries. Although drawing inspiration from the transnationalism literature and the new mobilities paradigm, we do not neglect a more struc...

This article explores how Latin American social workers living in Switzerland develop transnational practices in their professional and civic life. It focuses more particularly on the forms of support that these migrants provide to their societies of origin or to their immigrant compatriots through the activities they carry out either through their...

p>L'amélioration des conditions de vie des nouveaux retraités perceptible en Suisse comme ailleurs en Europe exige, dans le cas des migrants, d'être fortement nuancée. Une enquête menée en 2012 dans plusieurs cantons suisses permet de mieux cerner leurs conditions de vie en fonction de leur nationalité, de leur parcours socioprofessionnel ou de leu...

The sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad (1991; 1999) has defined ambivalence as part of the immigrant condition. According to him, since most of international migrants are not considered as full citizens in host States neither in home States, their situation tend to be ambivalent on many dimensions. For instance, they expect to come back once to their hom...

Exile and wandering The notions of exile and wandering are complex and often used in a metaphoric sense. The aim of this article is to clarify these notions, by exploring their sociological meanings in the analysis of social processes. Their similarities and differences are examined, as well as their overlapping in some contemporary contexts. We fo...

National rules for family reunification take place in an increasingly transnational context. Social workers in Switzerland, whether they work in services for migrants or for elders, are confronted with requests for transnational family reunification with older parents. Such requests, while relatively rare, elicit responses which must be viewed as l...

Cet ouvrage s'intéresse aux mobilités migratoires, aux politiques, aux pratiques et aux processus liés à l'immigration en dehors des grands centres, soit des villes moyennes, des communautés minoritaires ou des espaces semi-ruraux qui rencontrent les effets des migrations internationales. Les concepts de régionalisation, communautés linguistiques e...

Various papers published in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe have highlighted an improvement in the living conditions of new cohorts reaching retirement age. This paper examines whether this general trend to old age democratization applies also to elderly immigrants. It reviews some dimensions of the older immigrant population situation in Switz...

This paper examines the transnational political practices of the Chilean migrants residing in Switzerland. It is mainly interested in their political mobilization. It focuses on two particular questions: what are the main modes of transnational political mobilization of Chileans living in the Swiss Confederation? What are the conditions that promot...

This text tackles the way work imagined the intervention related to migration issues during the second half of the last century. Starting from the case of Switzerland, the author tries to systematize ways of thinking and acting which have not necessarily been clarified by the professionals. Five models are reviewed: assimilationist, ethno-cultural,...

Professeur à la Haute école de travail social (HETS), Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO), Genève, Suisse Ce numéro traite des questions actuelles alliant la gestion locale des diversités socioculturelles, en Europe principalement, et les pratiques de solidarité internationale soutenues par des migrants qui résident sur ce contin...

ABSTRACT - This paper examines the issue of family reunion of parents, i.e. a situation where adults living in one country bring one or both parents aged over 50, of foreign nationality and residing abroad, to live near them. The findings are based on two years of research conducted in Switzerland between 2006 and 2008. After stressing that this is...

This article deals with the opportunities foreign workers have to participate in the job market on an equal footing in the state in which they reside. Using Switzerland as an example, we will pay particular attention to the possibility or not for qualified foreign workers to transfer their cultural capital (Bourdieu, La distinction. Critique social...

Résumé Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons particulièrement à la transition entre jeunesse et vie adulte dans le domaine familial. Une recherche réalisée en Suisse auprès d’enfants d’Espagnols et d’Italiens issus des classes populaires permet de comprendre les modalités de cette transition pour ces populations. La comparaison avec un groupe con...

This paper analyses in general terms the ‘return question' or, to be more precise, the intentions of older Italian and Spanish migrants living in Switzerland as to their place of residence after retirement, and the criteria governing their decision. Survey data reveal that the majority of respondents either planned to stay in Switzerland, or to liv...

Im Gegensatz zu einer weit verbreiteten Meinung ist Migration nicht eine rein individuelle Angelegenheit. Der Entscheid, in ein anderes Land auszuwandern, wird nicht in erster Linie von Einzelpersonen, sondern in Familien getroffen. Die Familie ist der Ort, wo die Migration geplant wird, wo der Integrationsprozess am neuen Ort schrittweise stattfin...

From exile to diaspora: Migration from Chile This article explores the relationship between exile and diaspora : based on the example of migration from Chile, it reviews the similarities and the differences between these two concepts. It also examines how exiles fleeing ideological political violence become members of a diaspora. Transformation fro...

L'A. trace dans cet article les trajectoires individuelles des emigres lors de leur retour tardif au sein de leur communaute d'origine. Les raisons, principalement economiques, qu'on peut trouver a l'emigration et a l'immigration reposent sur une serie d'illusions, notamment sur l'illusion du provisoire, du retour definitif au pays, et s'entretienn...

Migrants âgés, personnes âgées d'origine étrangère en Allemagne. Maria Dietzel-Papakyriakou. Au cours de leurs années passées en migration, la décision de demeurer en Allemagne au cours du troisième âge s'est peu à peu imposée à de nombreux étrangers. Cependant, pour beaucoup d'entre eux, cette décision est contraire à leurs souhaits et ne signifie...

À l'écoute des femmes immigrées : témoignages et mémoire. Rosita Fibbi, Claudio Bolzman et Marie Vial. Au moment où la première génération des immigrés de l'après guerre en Suisse s'apprête à passer le témoin, il devient urgent de récolter la mémoire de ceux qui ont connu la migration et un long parcours de confrontation avec leur nouveaux pays. Le...

Le vieux, le fou et l'Autre, qui habite encore dans les foyers ? Marc Bernardot. Les travailleurs migrants célibataires venus en France dans les années soixante-dix ont vieilli mais certains entre eux vivent toujours dans les foyers de travailleurs migrants. Selon qu'ils bénéficient d'une retraite ou pas, ils connaissent des situations très différe...

Envejecer en la inmigración. Emile Témime. La inmigración se presenta precaria por naturaleza, la propia expresión « trabajo inmigrante » implica que la presencia del inmigrante se halla estrechamente ligada su actividad profesional. Que ésta venga a terminarse, lo absurdo de la condición de inmigrante aparece absurda. Que « uno se mate » a trabaja...

The Family, a Source of Legitimacy for Immigrants after their Retirement ? The case of the Spanish and Italians in Switzerland. Claudio Bolzman, Rosita Fibbi et Marie Vial. At the present time a new phenomena is emerging in Europe : immigrant workers who came to different countries during the fifties and sixties are reaching retirement age. Startin...

Retraite anticipée ou retraite différée ? Les immigres âgés au Québec et leur sortie de la vie active. Oscar Firbank. Cet article vise à analyser les attitudes face au travail à un âge avancé des immigrés résidant au Québec et leurs conditions de passage à l'inactivité et la retraite. La retraite des immigrés est un domaine encore peu exploré au Ca...

Cet article porte sur un phénomène nouveau en Europe, celui de l’arrivée à l’âge de la retraite des immigrés recrutés comme travailleurs dans les années 50 et 60. Nous présentons le contexte démographique et sociopolitique de cette problématique et décrivons la condition précaire et les problèmes de santé de certains d’entre eux. Le thème est analy...

Italianas y Españolas en Suiza próximas a la edad de la jubilación. Rosita Fibbi, Claudio Bolzman, Marie Vial. A partir de los resultados de un estudio sobre los italianos y españoles residentes en Suiza y próximos a la edad de la jubilación, los autores tratan de la condición de la mujer inmigrante. El artículo analiza los modelos de incorporación...

Many scholars perceive the incorporation of refugees and immigrants to a new society as a matter of time: the longer the length of residence, the more the refugees and immigrants perceive their stay in the host society as permanent. Other social scientists go even much further: they perceive adaptation not only as a linear process but also as an in...

"Nowadays 75% of foreigners living in Switzerland have a permanent residence permit. A new phenomenon goes along with this stabilisation: the aging of this resident foreign population, especially Italians and Spaniards who arrived in Switzerland in the fifties and sixties. This trend will have definite consequences on the costs of Swiss social secu...

Nowadays 75% of foreigners living in Switzerland have a permanent residence permit. A new phenomenon goes along with this stabilisation: the aging of this resident foreign population, especially Italians and Spaniards who arrived in Switzerland in the fifties and sixties. This trend will have definite consequences on the costs of swiss social secur...

In this paper we focus on an often neglected dimension of immigration, the collective one. We explore two main forms of collective assertion of immigrants: (1) political mobilisation, which is no longer as dominant as it has been in the past; and (2) cultural mobilisation, which has become increasingly important over the last ten years. After the f...

"Switzerland is the European country which, after Sweden, has received the highest number of refugees (30,000) in proportion to its population. Asylum seekers have increased considerably since 1979. They are coming mostly from Third World, politically unsettled countries. The essay presents the results of a survey conducted in Geneva on a sample of...

La seconda generazione di immigrati in Svizzera : categoria o protagonista sociale ? Claudio BOLZMAN, Rosita FIBBI e Carlos GARCIA In questo articolo gli autori si interrogano sui criteri di delimitazione dei gruppi e sulle condizioni che favoriscono la formazione di attori sociali. Il confronto tra la « seconda generazione d'immigrati » in Svizzer...

Im Gegensatz zu einer weit verbreiteten Meinung ist Migration nicht eine rein indi-viduelle Angelegenheit. Der Entscheid, in ein anderes Land auszuwandern, wird nicht in erster Linie von Einzelpersonen, sondern in Familien getroffen. Die Familie ist der Ort, wo die Migration geplant wird, wo der Integrationsprozess am neuen Ort schritt-weise stattf...

Résumé Dans cette communication, nous nous interrogeons sur la manière dont les membres de la deuxième génération espagnole et italienne réalisent leur insertion dans la société suisse et vivent leur situation pluriculturelle. En particulier, nous cherchons à savoir si les enfants des primomigrants connaissent une mobilité socioprofessionnelle asce...

Tesis (doctorado)--Université de Genève, 1991. Bibliografía: p. 640-661.