M Felder
Biographic Data
| ID | 26060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Felder |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Felder |
| SIGNATURE | FELDER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1056-9255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ” Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media
Beyond support or exploitation
In cities facing housing shortages, vulnerable newcomers almost always live with family or friends upon arrival. While social networks are often seen as a source of support that facilitates migration and settlement, research has also shown that newcomers can be exploited by established migrants and relatives. Challenging the dichotomy between positive and negative social capital, this article reveals how exploitation and support coexist within so…
Social Workers and Irregular Migrants in the Assistance Circuit
Despite restrictive policy frameworks, cities sometimes provide support to irregular migrants. Scholars have analysed these forms of inclusion, focusing on policies and tensions between inclusionary approaches by local or urban actors and exclusionary approaches by national or supranational authorities. This article seeks to shift the focus to the street level, examining how support is delivered, how it is experienced by different categories of i…
Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings
While scholars have long established that city dwellers choose with whom to develop relationships on the basis of social proximity, spatial proximity remains the basis for neighbour relations involving greetings, social conversation, and the exchange of services. Few studies have systematically compared the respective roles of spatial and social proximity in neighbour relations. In this paper, we investigate these two factors through statistical …
Subaltern housing policies
In the wealthy and orderly city of Geneva, Switzerland, accommodation centres built in haste between the 1950s and the 1980s to house seasonal guestworkers from southern Europe are still standing and still inhabited. Today's residents are precarious workers, undocumented or with temporary permits as well as asylum seekers. While the seasonal status disappeared in the early 2000s, the demand for low-skilled, flexible labour did not. Analysing the …
Faire du sur-place sans jamais pouvoir prendre place
Cet article analyse l'expérience de jeunes maghrébins nouvellement arrivés à Genève. Précarisés par leur parcours d'errance, sans statut légal, ils trouvent à Genève une infrastructure d'accueil qui leur permet de se nourrir et de dormir au chaud. Cependant, cette hospitalité a un coût : elle leur demande de suivre un parcours quotidien déterminé et rythmé par les services délivrés à heures fixes dans différents lieux d'accueil. Ce mode de vie co…
Familiarity as a Practical Sense of Place
Familiarity is an elusive concept, capturing what we know intimately and what we only recognize from having seen before. This article aims to disambiguate these interpretations by proposing a sociological conceptualization of familiarity as a dynamic relationship to the world that develops over time and through experience and that allows one to progressively disattend from what appears as 'usual.' Focusing on how urban environments and their huma…
Between Hospitality and Inhospitality
Although ‘arrival infrastructure’ is central to the experience of migrants arriving in a new city, is it sufficient to form a ‘hospitable milieu’? Our article compares newcomers’ experiences with ‘arrival infrastructure’ in two European cities: Brussels and Geneva. Based on ethnographic research with 49 migrants who arrived a few months earlier, we show that arrival infrastructure is Janus-faced. On one hand, it welcomes newcomers and contributes…
Strong, Weak and Invisible Ties
The dichotomy between 'strong' and 'weak' ties is a common theme in sociological scholarship dealing with urban space, yet urban ethnographers have long been describing the prevalence of impersonal relations. Such relations can be described as fleeting encounters between complete strangers, while others - as in the case of 'nodding' relationships - are durable and have yet to be conceptualised. The notion of 'invisible ties' is proposed as a conc…
SusanneWessendorf2014
Ethnography of a political ritual
Our paper examines speeches given at citizenship ceremonies in Geneva (Switzerland) in order to understand what makes a foreigner a new member of a national and especially of a cantonal entity. Focusing on speeches by three ministers over an interval of 4 years, we analyze their conceptions of the state, the nation, and of nationality, and the kind of change – if any – this rite of passage acknowledges. We observed that the variations that appear…
Familiarity as a Practical Sense of Place
Familiarity is an elusive concept, capturing what we know intimately and what we only recognize from having seen before. This article aims to disambiguate these interpretations by proposing a sociological conceptualization of familiarity as a dynamic relationship to the world that develops over time and through experience and that allows one to progressively disattend from what appears as 'usual.' Focusing on how urban environments and their huma…
Strong, Weak and Invisible Ties
The dichotomy between 'strong' and 'weak' ties is a common theme in sociological scholarship dealing with urban space, yet urban ethnographers have long been describing the prevalence of impersonal relations. Such relations can be described as fleeting encounters between complete strangers, while others - as in the case of 'nodding' relationships - are durable and have yet to be conceptualised. The notion of 'invisible ties' is proposed as a conc…
Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings
While scholars have long established that city dwellers choose with whom to develop relationships on the basis of social proximity, spatial proximity remains the basis for neighbour relations involving greetings, social conversation, and the exchange of services. Few studies have systematically compared the respective roles of spatial and social proximity in neighbour relations. In this paper, we investigate these two factors through statistical …
Subaltern housing policies
In the wealthy and orderly city of Geneva, Switzerland, accommodation centres built in haste between the 1950s and the 1980s to house seasonal guestworkers from southern Europe are still standing and still inhabited. Today's residents are precarious workers, undocumented or with temporary permits as well as asylum seekers. While the seasonal status disappeared in the early 2000s, the demand for low-skilled, flexible labour did not. Analysing the …
Social Workers and Irregular Migrants in the Assistance Circuit
Despite restrictive policy frameworks, cities sometimes provide support to irregular migrants. Scholars have analysed these forms of inclusion, focusing on policies and tensions between inclusionary approaches by local or urban actors and exclusionary approaches by national or supranational authorities. This article seeks to shift the focus to the street level, examining how support is delivered, how it is experienced by different categories of i…
SusanneWessendorf2014
Ethnography of a political ritual
Our paper examines speeches given at citizenship ceremonies in Geneva (Switzerland) in order to understand what makes a foreigner a new member of a national and especially of a cantonal entity. Focusing on speeches by three ministers over an interval of 4 years, we analyze their conceptions of the state, the nation, and of nationality, and the kind of change – if any – this rite of passage acknowledges. We observed that the variations that appear…
SusanneWessendorf2014
Ethnography of a political ritual
Our paper examines speeches given at citizenship ceremonies in Geneva (Switzerland) in order to understand what makes a foreigner a new member of a national and especially of a cantonal entity. Focusing on speeches by three ministers over an interval of 4 years, we analyze their conceptions of the state, the nation, and of nationality, and the kind of change – if any – this rite of passage acknowledges. We observed that the variations that appear…
Between Hospitality and Inhospitality
Although ‘arrival infrastructure’ is central to the experience of migrants arriving in a new city, is it sufficient to form a ‘hospitable milieu’? Our article compares newcomers’ experiences with ‘arrival infrastructure’ in two European cities: Brussels and Geneva. Based on ethnographic research with 49 migrants who arrived a few months earlier, we show that arrival infrastructure is Janus-faced. On one hand, it welcomes newcomers and contributes…
Strong, Weak and Invisible Ties
The dichotomy between 'strong' and 'weak' ties is a common theme in sociological scholarship dealing with urban space, yet urban ethnographers have long been describing the prevalence of impersonal relations. Such relations can be described as fleeting encounters between complete strangers, while others - as in the case of 'nodding' relationships - are durable and have yet to be conceptualised. The notion of 'invisible ties' is proposed as a conc…
Familiarity as a Practical Sense of Place
Familiarity is an elusive concept, capturing what we know intimately and what we only recognize from having seen before. This article aims to disambiguate these interpretations by proposing a sociological conceptualization of familiarity as a dynamic relationship to the world that develops over time and through experience and that allows one to progressively disattend from what appears as 'usual.' Focusing on how urban environments and their huma…
Social Workers and Irregular Migrants in the Assistance Circuit
Despite restrictive policy frameworks, cities sometimes provide support to irregular migrants. Scholars have analysed these forms of inclusion, focusing on policies and tensions between inclusionary approaches by local or urban actors and exclusionary approaches by national or supranational authorities. This article seeks to shift the focus to the street level, examining how support is delivered, how it is experienced by different categories of i…
Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings
While scholars have long established that city dwellers choose with whom to develop relationships on the basis of social proximity, spatial proximity remains the basis for neighbour relations involving greetings, social conversation, and the exchange of services. Few studies have systematically compared the respective roles of spatial and social proximity in neighbour relations. In this paper, we investigate these two factors through statistical …
Subaltern housing policies
In the wealthy and orderly city of Geneva, Switzerland, accommodation centres built in haste between the 1950s and the 1980s to house seasonal guestworkers from southern Europe are still standing and still inhabited. Today's residents are precarious workers, undocumented or with temporary permits as well as asylum seekers. While the seasonal status disappeared in the early 2000s, the demand for low-skilled, flexible labour did not. Analysing the …
Faire du sur-place sans jamais pouvoir prendre place
Cet article analyse l'expérience de jeunes maghrébins nouvellement arrivés à Genève. Précarisés par leur parcours d'errance, sans statut légal, ils trouvent à Genève une infrastructure d'accueil qui leur permet de se nourrir et de dormir au chaud. Cependant, cette hospitalité a un coût : elle leur demande de suivre un parcours quotidien déterminé et rythmé par les services délivrés à heures fixes dans différents lieux d'accueil. Ce mode de vie co…
“You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ” Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media
Beyond support or exploitation
In cities facing housing shortages, vulnerable newcomers almost always live with family or friends upon arrival. While social networks are often seen as a source of support that facilitates migration and settlement, research has also shown that newcomers can be exploited by established migrants and relatives. Challenging the dichotomy between positive and negative social capital, this article reveals how exploitation and support coexist within so…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)