Sandro CattacinUniversity of Geneva | UNIGE · Department of Sociology
Sandro Cattacin
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Introduction
Sandro Cattacin currently works at the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva.
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April 2014 - present
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Publications (311)
Notre thèse principale est que les rituels peuvent favoriser l’inclusion si l’on met l’accent sur leur com- munalité, sur leur aspect transformateur et sur leur convivialité, qui est nécessaire pour que ces derniers se reproduisent. Pour démontrer cette thèse, nous avons analysé et comparé huit rituels urbains (à Genève, Montréal et Turin). Le livr...
Chi sono le italiane e gli italiani che vivono oggi in Svizzera? Come è cambiata la loro presenza? Le associazioni in migrazione, molto attive in passato e particolarmente diffuse in Svizzera rispetto agli altri paesi, vi svolgono ancora un ruolo o sono forme di organizzazione superate? Sono gli interrogativi alla base di questo lavoro, che interse...
YASS Young Adult Survey Switzerland
Trends, stability and changes in the life of young Swiss adults based on a repetitive cross-sectional data ( 2010-2019)
While learning competencies in education for sustainable development are increasingly
recognized as important, few empirical studies consider competencies delivered at a program level. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a program evaluation can be approached through a participatory approach, and what this means for learning competencie...
On March 31, 2021, the Swiss Federal Council accepted the Ordinance on Pilot Trials under the Narcotics Law, which will come into force on May 15, 2021 and will authorize pilot trials of recreational cannabis use by adults. The purpose of these trials will be to provide a scientific basis for future policy decisions on cannabis regulation. This ord...
How do cities include newcomers and established inhabitants? Do urban rituals bring people together? Because of their relative anonymity and accessibility, public rituals – as temporary processes of inclusion or emphasizers of differences – are likely to include people with respect to their differences and any intersections of these. We examine thr...
International migration is an especially important interpretive key through which to understand the long history of globalization. Over the last 20 years, an increasing number of countries have experienced a prolonged transition in the nature of the migration to which they are subject: countries that were historically lands of emigration are becomi...
Human beings have been migrant for millennia. Reasons for migration vary from economic, financial, and educational reasons to persecution on religious or other discriminations. Push and pull factors for migration can produce inordinate amount of stress on individuals, families, or groups. Migrant psychiatry is a new discipline bringing together pro...
Introduction: Descriptive data indicate a high burden of chronic illness among immigrant women in Switzerland. Little is known about how immigrant women with chronic illnesses experience healthcare services. This paper presents a methodological approach theoretically informed by Sen's capability approach and Levesque's framework of access to health...
L’épidémie de VIH/sida demeure une problématique actuelle, tant au niveau mondial qu’à l’échelle locale et transfrontalière. L’engagement en 2014 de la Ville de Genève comme « territoire sans sida » a été le point de départ de cette étude de contexte.
La méthode employée pour cette clinique d’analyse sociale a combiné recherche documentaire et con...
Health systems are faced with different needs, conditions and expectations concerning health and healthcare delivery. The most vulnerable groups risk receiving poorer care due to barriers and inequities in health service provision and utilisation. However health care organisations are often not sufficiently equipped to effectively recognise and res...
Les sciences sociales analysent les défis que pose le COVID-19 en les insérant dans les dynamiques de nos sociétés. Avec le recul qui les caractérise, ces sciences sont particulièrement adaptées pour comprendre les dynamiques sociales, économiques et politiques d’une maladie qui, pour certain·es, a les traits du diable, et pour d’autres, ceux d’une...
Background
Several sets of standards aiming at improving access and quality of care for service users have been published in recent years. Certain standards focused on improving healthcare providers’ responsiveness to specific target groups. The general goal of this research was to improve organisations’ awareness of equity standards that are not f...
ICT and the increasing availability of digital data are dramatically changing the processes of research and knowledge production in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). Whereas the methodological momentum in digital humanities and computational social sciences is already immense, theory development in the SSH is much less dynamic and consists...
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La rete sociale dell’italofonia in Svizzera"
Migrant associations with a long history are rare. The one at the centre of this article—the Federazione delle Colonie Libere Italiane in Svizzera (Federation of Free Italian Colonies in Switzerland—FCLIS)—has been in existence for more than 70 years, which makes it possible to analyse not only how contextual and social changes transform associatio...
Nonostante sia per definizione un prodotto migrante, dalle materie prime fino alla manodopera necessarie per la sua realizzazione, la cioc-colata, uno dei prodotti svizzeri di maggior successo, è percepita come bene nazionale per eccellenza-quasi identitario. L'arte cioccolatiera moderna si è sviluppata in Europa, soprattutto in Francia, in Italia...
Currently, important issues around laws on regulation of cannabis use lead to reflect on the prohibition, which is still in force in most countries. The present article attempts to demonstrate by explaining the concepts of the principle of harm, legal paternalism and the precautionary principle that prohibition of cannabis cannot be justified medic...
This chapter highlights the urban governance arrangements identified by the European project Welfare Innovations at the Local Level in Favour of Cohesion (WILCO). These arrangements provide very different opportunity structures for social innovations. They are characterised by four dimensions: The governance of cooperation, characterised by a gener...
The final conclusive chapter discusses the implications of the findings for policymakers and professionals as well as the academic research agenda. “Good” signifies what innovations can contribute to a society’s ability to cope with change and, more precisely, to do it in a way that change can be perceived as progress in civility. “Bad” signifies t...
After the 1970s – characterised by a long period of xenophobic policies and Switzerland blocking the social and civil ambitions of inclusion of the Italian community – in 1982, the Italian football team won the World Cup in Spain. This apparently apolitical achievement was celebrated enthusi- astically by the Italian community all over Switzerland....
European cities are teeming with new ideas, initiated by citizens, professionals and policymakers. The problem is, despite all the case studies of social innovation that exist, it is still not sufficiently understood how social innovations are linked exactly to their wider urban context. It is this gap that the book addresses. We have defined socia...
The first chapter of the book, by Taco Brandsen, Adalbert Evers, Sandro Cattacin and Annette Zimmer, describes the basic assumptions, aims and methodology of the project from which the empirical evidence is drawn. It emphasises the importance of analysing social innovation in context and of avoiding uncritical interpretations of social innovation a...
After the 1970s - characterised by a long period of xenophobic policies and Switzerland blocking the social and civil ambitions of inclusion of the Italian community - in 1982, the Italian football team won the World Cup in Spain. This apparently apolitical achievement was celebrated enthusiastically by the Italian community all over Switzerland. T...
L’arrière-pays de la Vénétie n’est pas seulement terre d’émigration, mais aussi un paysage intriguant, fertile pour l’agriculture et profondément catholique. Cet article retrace un parcours très personnel entre passé et présent de la Vénétie en partant de Lozzo Atestino dans la province de Padoue.
La catastrophe de Mattmark de 1965 a durablement marqué l’histoire migratoire récente de la Suisse. Suite à la chute d’une langue de glacier sur les baraques du chantier de la digue de Mattmark, 88 personnes meurent sur leur lieu de travail. Par la diversité d’origine des victimes, cet événement de portée nationale acquiert une dimension internatio...
Die Mattmark-Katastrophe im Jahr 1965 hat die jüngere Migrationsgeschichte der Schweiz nachhaltig geprägt. Beim Abbruch eines Teils einer Gletscherzunge, der die Baracken der Baustelle des Mattmark-Staudamms unter sich begrub, starben sechsundachtzig Männer und zwei Frauen an ihrem Arbeitsplatz. Durch die vielen verschiedenen Herkunftsländer der Op...
Der 1. Mai, der in der Schweiz seit 1890 zelebriert wird, basiert auf der Selbstorganisation einer Arbeiterschaft, die ursprünglich dem Kapital die antikapitalistische Kraft von furchteinf lössenden Reden und Volksauf läufen entgegenzusetzen versucht.
Mit der Zeit wird dann vermehrt die Fähigkeit zur Mobilisierung unter Beweis gestellt, die im dam...
Depuis le début du vingtième siècle, l'hétérogénéité, la diversité ou la mixité et leurs conséquences en termes de vivre-ensemble sont au centre de l'attention des sociologues prenant la ville pour objet ou pour terrain. Cette enquête, menée par des étudiants et étudiantes du Master de sociologie de l'Université de Genève durant l'année universitai...
The rich mosaic of Italian migration has been portrayed and ana-lyzed from different angles and through different methodological ap-proaches, throughout time and space. The aim of this monographic volume is to offer a fresh interpretative line, using three key concepts – Catastrophe, Fordism and Migration – which allow us to reinterpret the history...
Fordism was not only a way of production, but also a way to ho- mologize and control society. In its dehumanizing dimension, Fordism focalized only on the societal consequences of production, following clearly defined objectives, in particular economic growth and a conflict-free society. The consequences of Fordism were a prioritization of these so...
The rich mosaic of Italian migration has been portrayed and analyzed from different angles and through different methodological approaches, throughout time and space. The aim of this monographic volume is to offer a fresh interpretative line, using three key concepts - Catastrophe, Fordism and Migration - which allow us to reinterpret the history o...
In this article we analyze mobile people’s associations as agents of production of the city. The associations of mobile people play a part in the production of meaning and identity and, at the same time, they produce interpersonal and inter-organisational ties. Through constant transformations, they facilitate the inclusion of newcomers, create mem...
Transnationally, mobile people have produced a differentiated associative life in many countries. This chapter tries to understand why these people organize themselves and relate forms and logics of these autonomous associations to extrinsic and intrinsic dynamics. It concludes by underlining the pluralism of logics and the societal role of these a...
Migration is intrinsically linked to cities. Cities are nodes of the mobile world and exist only thanks to migration. Like immigration nations such as Australia or Canada, cities were built on migration. Cities without migration die. Migration also means social mobility and more life opportunities. The reasons behind the migration project are norma...
Le développement de la vie associative des personnes mobiles reflète les changements sociaux et leurs conséquences sur le politique et l’économique. Notre analyse aboutit à l’idée que cette dynamique produit des ressources sociétales qui doivent être prises en compte dans la politique d’inclusion des migrants dans les sociétés d’accueil, ce par des...
In this article, we outline the conceptual assumptions that define the basic theoretical framework for the development of equity standards for healthcare organisations. We begin by critiquing current assumptions
by healthcare organisations regarding gender,migration and disability. By challenging these assumptions through the interrelated concepts...
Based on 44 qualitative interviews with transnationally mobile people engaged in 28 different associations in Switzerland, this article tries to understand the motives behind the choice to volunteer, i.e. to actively and regularly engage in associations. These interviews reveal the great importance of associations in fostering inclusion in both the...
Ce livre qui traite de la migration italienne se veut un instrument de compréhension d’une trop longue histoire… d’incompréhension. L’analyse se focalise sur la période chaude de l’après-guerre, là où débutent les mouvements qui veulent restreindre l’immigration et qui sont aujourd’hui installés au centre du système politique suisse. Ce livre se ve...
Contient des fiches pédagogiques
L'auteur aborde sous forme de dialogues les différentes catégories d'étranger, qu'il s'agissent des touristes, de l'immigré clandestin, du sans-papiers et du réfugié politique. Il traite également de la définition des immigrés selon leur statut juridique, le cadre légal qui s'y réfère ainsi que la politique d'accuei...
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The interdisciplinary project “Welcoming Neighbourhoods: Sustainable Migration in North, East and West African Cities” seeks to understand the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion among mobile people (internal and external migrants, circular migrants, commuters) in specific neighbourhoods characterised by diversity (in terms of the life histories, and particularly the mobility experiences, of the people who live there) and their contribution to social, economic, and cultural innovation. The case studies have concerned the cities of Dakar, Abidjan, Fez and Addis Ababa.
UNIC’s main objective is to analyse self-organised migrant associations, independent civil society initiatives and established ritualised practices of inclusion in the city that occur outside formal migration and integration policies and that improve the dynamics of belonging, exchange, cooperation, interactions and peaceful coexistence between the established and newcomers.
Cities: Brussels, Charleroi, Dresden, Geneva, Hamamatsu, Liège, Turin, Zurich.