Emilie Rosenstein

Emilie Rosenstein
University of Geneva | UNIGE · Department of Sociology

PhD Sociology

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Introduction
My research interests include Social policy, more specifically Disability policies and Youth policies. Most of my research projects are based on qualitative, or mixed methods research designs.

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Publications (38)
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First published as a special issue of the Policy and Politics journal, this book situates reforms known as 'nudges' or 'behavioural interventions' which have emerged in public policy and administration within a broader tradition of methodological individualism.
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Social policies are designed to tackle vulnerability processes, providing additional resources to vulnerable target groups and helping them overcome stressing situations. However, empirical observations have shown that social policies may also reinforce vulnerability in certain cases. This can be better explained if one considers vulnerability as a...
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Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown have shed light on structural and situational – that is, tied to the current economic crisis – insufficiencies of contemporary labour markets and social policies and their incapacity to reduce inequalities and prevent precariousness. In many countries, food banks and similar food distribut...
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Based on the case of the Swiss disability insurance (DI), the article questions the impact of activation on the (non-)take-up of social policies. It investigates the aim and content of activation policies (as found in official texts and discourses) and their subjective perception among recipients. Inspired by Kerr’s model and Hobson’s notion of “se...
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This study combines the Behavioural Public Policies (BPP) and the Street-Level Bureaucrats (SLB) approaches; the main innovation is to focus on the potential effects of nudges on SLBs’ behaviour rather than on citizens’ behaviour, as previously done in most studies applying BPP. We conducted a field experiment to assess whether a system 2, thought-...
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Les liens entre producteurs de savoirs experts et monde politique sont complexes. Cet article vise à éclairer les articulations entre sphères de la recherche et de la politique à l’aune de dimensions clés de l’approche des capabilités développée par Amartya Sen. Plus particulièrement, nous nous intéresserons aux atouts et limites du courant des evi...
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Social policies rely on specific expectations vis-a-vis their beneficiaries, who have to abide by certain eligibility criteria or behavioral standards to access the benefits or services provided. As such, they draw boundaries between the deserving and undeserving, which results in the following paradox: While social policies claim to be universal,...
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Viser l’inclusion et la participation citoyenne des personnes en situation de handicap. Viser leur insertion sur le marché du travail. Ces objectifs complémentaires relèvent de politiques divergentes. Le cas de la Suisse illustre ce paradoxe.
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Depuis les années 1980, le paradigme de l’activation a profondément transformé les outils et missions de la protection sociale, passant d’une conception universaliste des droits sociaux à une approche sélective et conditionnelle. La présente thèse porte sur le risque de sélectivité qui caractérise plus spécifiquement l’accès aux prestations sociale...
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The aim of this article is to lay down the foundations of a critical sociology of democracy and participation. Based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach, we identify four major pitfalls of classical theories on justice and deliberative democracy: 1) an excessive emphasis on the procedural dimension of democracy at the expense of its substantial va...
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p>In a context of activation, welfare agents resort to explicit and implicit forms of categorisation to identify more precisely the target groups that can be activated. In the capability perspective, such a categorisation should be flexible enough to promote the conversion of entitlements into real capacity to act. In this perspective, the definiti...
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La présente recherche a été initiée par le Décanat de la Faculté des Sciences de la Société (SdS). Elle vise à éclairer les débouchés vers lesquels mènent les formations que la Faculté propose, en reprenant en grande partie le format des enquêtes réalisées par le Département de Sociologie sur ses anciens étudiants dans les années 1990 et 2000. Plus...
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This chapter introduces the nine case studies, the common question framework used and the different methodologies adopted. The aim of the case studies is to examine the transitions of disadvantaged young people from compulsory school to further education, from education/vocational training to the labour market and from being unemployed/outside the...
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Life paths of young people on social benefit in Switzerland In our contribution we propose to study the impact of social policies on the life paths of marginalised youth, using the approach by abilities developed by Amartya Sen. The article is based on an in-depth analysis of the FORJAD programme (Training for young adults in difficulty), initiated...
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p>L’article analyse les récents développements de l’accompagnement social à partir d’une étude approfondie du programme FORJAD (formation pour jeunes adultes en difficulté) permettant à de jeunes adultes inscrits à l’aide sociale suisse d’accéder à une formation professionnelle. À partir d’une étude comparant la nature et les modalités d’interventi...
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p>The aim of this paper is to assess a Swiss s school-to-work transition programme against the capability approach. Our objective is to examine to what extent it enhances youngsters’ capabilities by providing resources and conversion factors allowing them to project themselves in the future and plan their own life in a way they have reason to value...
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p>Cet article propose de mobiliser l’approche par les capacités d’Amartya Sen pour évaluer les politiques sociales et plus spécifiquement, les politiques d’insertion destinées aux jeunes en situation de vulnérabilité. Dans ce cadre analytique, l’efficacité d’un programme d’insertion doit être évaluée à l’aune de son impact sur les « capabilités » d...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of the current trend towards integrating employment policies against Amartya Sen's capability approach. By contrast with the conventional efficiency measures, it focuses on two main issues: to what extent does the integration of policies result in more performing programs when it comes to em...
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Suite aux interrogations issues des étudiant-e-s en phase d'orientation et des sociologues déjà formés, des membres de l'Association des Etudiant-e-s en Sociologie (AES) et du Département de Sociologie de l'Université de Genève ont décidé de lancer une enquête sur les trajectoires professionnelles et de formation des licencié-e-s en sociologie à l...
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Cet ouvrage propose une comparaison des changements dans la vie tels qu'ils sont perçus par des individus se situant à des positions différentes du parcours de vie. L'analyse de quelque 600 questionnaires remplis par les membres de cinq groupes d'âge (20-24, 35-39, 50-54, 65-69 et 80-84 ans) met en évidence que l'entrée dans la vie adulte constitue...

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