Eva Fernández G. G.- Postdoc
- Lecturer and Senior Scientific Researcher at University of Geneva
Eva Fernández G. G.
- Postdoc
- Lecturer and Senior Scientific Researcher at University of Geneva
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Eva Fernández G.G. (PhD), is a scientific collaborator at the University of Geneva and at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland. She works at the NCCR On the Move on a research project on post-retirement international mobilities, transnational lifestyles, and care configurations. She collaborated in various EU-H2020 research projects. Her research focuses on immigration, solidarity, and political behavior. https://nccr-onthemove.ch/who-is-who/people/?start=f&p_id=14500
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European citizens continue to engage in solidarity activities in support of vulnerable groups within and beyond their own countries. Many of these organised practices of transnational solidarity provide research with important insights into the features and conditions of organisational forms of support. This article makes use of a unique dataset of...
This study builds on the well-known civic voluntarism model of political participation. By doing this, we contribute to a political sociology of participation by refining the role of socialization in political engagement. We suggest that the action repertoires of young people engaging in politics can be narrower or broader owing to their previous e...
This article presents a qualitative analysis of the practices of civil society organizations (CSOs) to integrate migrants into the Swiss labor market. Civil society organizations as a means of overcoming vulnerability figure prominently in the current research. However, less attention has been given to examining how organizational perceptions influ...
Some scholars warn about democratic disaffection of young people potentially leading to processes of ‘democratic deconsolidation’. Conversely, others interpret young people’s preference for non-conventional forms of participation as a manifestation of democratic renewal. We surveyed respondents from nine European countries, analyzed differences in...
This article introduces a novel transnational family configuration (TNFC) approach to study the diversity of family forms across kinship and geographical boundaries. Integrating theoretical insights from family sociology and transnational family research, it examines contemporary families as personal networks that encompass both subjectively identi...
This chapter investigates the role of axiological drivers in solidarity activism with refugees. It examines how universal value orientations denote normative and relational orientations of care and posits that refugee solidarity activism is driven by the activists’ universal caring orientations to all vulnerable groups. Overall, the chapter illustr...
This case study demonstrates the use of an innovative method involving semi-automated and automated approaches for data extraction, followed by sampling strategies and manual coding schemes to further characterize organizational fields. The Action Organization Analysis (AOA) method aims at capturing the complexity and dynamism of organizational fie...
Swiss citizens have a wide action repertoire to engage politically. The complexity of the Swiss political system requires from citizens important resources, knowledge and skills, the lack of which has been shown to hamper young people’s political engagement. Current debates about youth’s political participation focus on the diversified and unconven...
Switzerland is recognised as an immigration country. As in other European countries, awareness of the socio-economic costs of the non-integration of immigrants has led Swiss policy-makers to promote integration both as an individual duty (conditional on the requirements and individual responsibilities of a foreign person), as well as a policy prior...
This chapter investigates the role of axiological drivers in solidarity activism with refugees. It examines how universal value orientations denote normative and relational orientations of care, and posits that refugee solidarity activism is driven by the activists' universal caring orientations to all vulnerable groups. Overall, the chapter illust...
This chapter is devoted to an in-depth analysis of qualitative interviews about practices of solidarity in Switzerland among the fields of (un)employment and immigration. The chapter shows how institutional arrangements (policy frameworks) shape organisational solidarity within and across these two fields. The history of immigration in Switzerland...
Europe has witnessed the emergence of civic solidarity with people affected by the economic grievances, social exclusion or prosecution, particularly in reaction to the economic recession and so-called refugee crisis. Many of these practices of transnational solidarity were organized, thus providing research with important insights into the forms a...
Broadly, this paper analyses the motivational orientations of the solidarity practices toward refugees, to unveil if these are primarily motivated by other-regarding orientations. Conceptually, it links solidarity practices to political forms of participation following previous research on volunteerism and activism (Omoto et al., 2010; Fraser et al...
Despite compelling literature, research has so far failed to provide substantive empirical evidence on the relationship between individual preferences on the inclusion of immigrants into institutionalized forms of solidarity and migration incorporation regimes. I argue that, apart from individual factors and welfare state generosity, citizenship mo...
This study aims to explain the solidarity behavior toward a specific needy group that is not part of the national community (refugees) in comparison with vulnerable in-groups (the disabled or the unemployed), taking into account the interplay between individuals’ political orientations and their social dispositions based on the ranking preferences...
The chapter analyses the motivational orientations of solidarity-based behaviour and seeks to unveil if these are primarily motivated by other-regarding orientations. Conceptually, it links solidarity practices to civic and political forms of participation following previous research on voluntarism and activism. More precisely, it aims to analyse s...
The Swiss ethos for solidarity strongly refers to social cohesion inside thevarious territorial levels of the nation-state. Swiss federalism accommo-dates diversity and autonomy as the mechanism that accounts for the polit-ical and social equilibrium between the shared-rule at federal level and theself-rule at the cantonal level. The relationships...
This chapter analyses how social policies aimed at reducing social riskstranslate into an institutional imperative to support and protect vulnerablegroups in Switzerland. More precisely, we perform a legal and policy ana-lysis to assess, first the impact of the country’s internal diversity (internalfactor) and second the European economic crisis (e...
