FLEXIBLE HOSPITALITY

Authors

  • Nasser Tafferant Nasser Tafferant works as sociologist and researcher at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland – Social Work in Geneva (IES). His current research focuses on the Romanian ageing migrants and the welfare State, a Swiss-Romanian cooperating program coordinated by Professors Claudio Bolzman and Ion Ionescu with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).

Keywords:

Welfare state, hospitality, migration, urban marginality, stigma, social control, resilience and participant observation

Abstract

This article offers an excursion into the situation of migrants who share hope and precariousness in an open-air squat inner city of Lausanne, Switzerland. Whereas the countdown of their ejection islaunched,they manage to survive by making dilapidated shedsmore comfortable and finding help beside committed people and voluntary welfare organizations. Participant observation offers the opportunity of seeing mechanisms of stigma and marginalization on the one side, determining factors of resilience on the other side . It contributes to the examination of the meanings by which the welfare state regulates social control of impoverished migrants and conditions of hospitality.

Author Biography

Nasser Tafferant, Nasser Tafferant works as sociologist and researcher at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland – Social Work in Geneva (IES). His current research focuses on the Romanian ageing migrants and the welfare State, a Swiss-Romanian cooperating program coordinated by Professors Claudio Bolzman and Ion Ionescu with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).

Nasser Tafferant took the photos that are included in this article.

References

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Bouillon, F. (2009), Les Mondes du squat, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France.

Tabin, J.P., Knüsel, R. (2014), Luttercontre les pauvres. Les politiques face à la mendicité dans le canton de Vaud, Lausanne, Éditionsd'En bas, 2014.

Battaglini, M., Eckmann, M., Hasdeu, I., Savelieff, P. (2015), Roms en cité. Témoignages, participation et politiques publiques, Genève, Editions IES.

Additional Files

Published

16-11-2015

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2015): Scientific Annals of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi. (New Series) Sociology and Social Work Section

Section

ARTICLES