Marion Repetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 278145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marion Repetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marion |
| FAMILY NAME | Repetti |
| SIGNATURE | REPETTI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | HES-SO Valais-Wallis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1328-321X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Community, solidarity, and poverty in mountain regions: The experiences of older adults in the Swiss Alps and Central Appalachia in the United States
Doctoral programs can improve social work in Switzerland
Social work remains a developing university discipline in Switzerland. Most of the current social work departments were established during the last two decades with the creation of Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS), which offer bachelor’s and master’s programs. To this day, social work UAS cannot award doctorates. This study explores the sociopolitical forces hindering doctoral studies in social work in Switzerland—including federalism, cons…
“I need time to recuperate, I really understand that: ” Benefits and Constraints Faced by Older Women in Formal Volunteer Roles
Older volunteers fulfill many social and cultural needs that strengthen social cohesion. Volunteering within an organization can provide adults new roles in later life, which can offer certain benefits. However, volunteering is unequally distributed in society, and older men and women do not play equal roles within organizations. Particularly, as compared to older men, older women perform more informal volunteering and are less likely to occupy m…
Ce que la montagne apprend du vieillissement et ce que le vieillissement apprend de la montagne
International audience
What The Mountain Learns from Aging and What Aging Learns from the Mountain
Ageism and the digital divide in Switzerland during Covid-19: Lessons for the post-pandemic world
The COVID-19 pandemic erupted in early 2020. The Swiss Federal Council implemented a semi-lockdown in March 2020, asking people, particularly older adults, to stay at home to limit the transmission of the disease and to use digital tools to maintain their social relations and activities. This study inquired how older adults confronting precarity experienced these restrictions, how digital tools functioned in this context, and what learning could …
Developing 'Age-Friendly' Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants
Over the past two decades, the need to create 'age-friendly cities and communities' (AFCC) has emerged as a major theme in policies aimed at improving old people's physical and social environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) has driven this agenda through the launch in 2010 of the Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities. Support for ageing in place has, at the same time, run alongside an increase in international retirement …
Utile, mais pas indispensable ? Engagement bénévole des retraités et Covid-19
Bien que les contributions des retraités bénévoles occupent une place particulièrement importante dans l’organisation sociale de la Suisse, elles ne font l’objet que de peu de reconnaissance sociale. Cette situation questionne le rôle que peut jouer l’engagement bénévole dans l’inclusion sociale à la retraite, les effets inclusifs de tels engagements étant dépendants de la reconnaissance sociale des bénévoles. Cet article utilise les données d’un…
Vieillissement réussi, âgisme et persistance des rapports d’âge et de genre
Le paradigme gérontologique du vieillissement réussi vise à minimiser les conséquences du vieillissement. Il ne remet cependant pas en cause les rapports d’âge qui stigmatisent et dévalorisent la vieillesse. Au contraire, il pousse chacun·e à assumer individuellement les conséquences de cette stigmatisation, en imposant le devoir de résister à la vieillesse. Des entretiens avec des personnes d’âge moyen aux États-Unis sur le vieillissement réussi…
Vieilles, où serons-nous
est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement.Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage da…
Gergana Dimova, Democracy Beyond Elections: Government Accountability in the Media Age (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Towards Democratising Social Knowledge: A Political–Economic Analysis of the Departments of Social Work in Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences
In Switzerland, the relatively new social work departments are located in so-called universities of applied sciences (UASs), which provide a university-based and practice-oriented education. At the beginning, UASs were required to carry out ‘applied’ research and their teaching had to be ‘non-academic’, unlike in traditional universities. Although this definition is no longer present in the legal framework of tertiary education, it shapes policym…
Fin de carrière et vieillesse: Deux facettes d’un même risque
En Suisse, les risques de fin de carrière et vieillesse sont généralement traités politiquement comme deux problématiques distinctes, l’une relevant des politiques de l’emploi, l’autre de celles de la vieillesse. Cette séparation résulte de la genèse de la politique vieillesse en Suisse. En établissant l’âge d’accès à la rente de vieillesse à 65 ans, les responsables politiques ont renoncé à couvrir le risque d’appauvrissement des travailleurs di…
Ageing and Migration in a Global Context: Challenges for Welfare States
The cultural and structural motivations of cheap mobility: The case of retirement migrants in Spain and Costa Rica
Retirement migration is an increasingly common phenomenon. It involves the relocation of retirees from richer countries of the global North to places in the world where the costs of living are lower. In contrast from most other migrants, these retirees do not generally relocate to find more work opportunities. Aeromobility, namely frequent air travel, is a key aspect of their ability to be geographically mobile, which social scientists often depi…
Ageing Abroad. The Case of Swiss Nationals in Morocco and Spain
Cultural, social, and economic factors have led to an increase in late-life migration of citizens from richer countries to poorer ones. Although research interest in this phenomenon has risen as well, the case of people leaving Switzerland remains little studied. Yet, in 2017, 11 % of Swiss men and women aged 65 and over lived abroad. Drawing on two case studies of older Swiss migrants to Spain and Morocco, this article contributes to a better un…
Comment faire bénéficier les retraités des dividendes du patriarcat ? Débats scientifiques et solutions politiques (Suisse, 1946-1995)
La loi helvétique sur l’assurance vieillesse et survivants (AVS) entre en vigueur en 1948. Le nouveau temps de la retraite qu’elle institue nourrit de nombreuses discussions politiques et scientifiques quant aux conséquences de la fin de l’activité professionnelle des hommes. L’article se concentre sur les débats qui se déroulent en Suisse entre 1948 et 1995, que les auteur·e·s analysent à la lumière des travaux de Raewyn Connell sur les masculin…
Retirement migration and transnational grandparental support: A Spanish case study
People who migrate in retirement often do so to join younger generations who have already migrated, and to help with grandchildren. But what about those retirees who migrate away from their families? Do they still provide grandparental support? To address this question, we examine retirement migrants who reside permanently in their new country, Spain. We find that they are aware of grandparental support expectations, and that their migration deci…
Democratic Theory as Social Codification
What is democratic theory? In this article we treat it as a semiotic code – that is to say, a shared assumption – and argue that democratic theory enables people to think and talk about the idea(s) of democracy. Furthermore, the application of this specific code is highly political. For one, it is embedded in concrete contexts and discourses and used in arguments and narratives. In addition, the application of democratic theory has also substanti…
Retirement Migration in Europe: A Choice for a Better Life
This article examines the impact of economic inequalities on the individual choices that North European retirees make when they migrate to Mediterranean countries. It considers a group of retired and early-retired migrants who live permanently in Spain and have limited economic resources. Through a qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews with retirement migrants as well as ethnographic observations and spontaneous conversation…
Since I retired, I can take things as they come. For example, the laundry’: Gender, class and freedom in retirement in Switzerland
Population ageing has led many countries to be concerned about the ‘economic burden’ of elders, and several have adopted the active ageing paradigm to reform policy. However, gender differences that moderate the effect of active ageing have been little considered. As in other nations in the European Union, Swiss federal authorities use the active ageing paradigm to reshape ageing policies, including the provision of incentives to seniors to remai…
Swiss Retirees as “Active Agers”: A Critical Look at this New Social Role
Retirement Migration in Europe: A Choice for a Better Life
This article examines the impact of economic inequalities on the individual choices that North European retirees make when they migrate to Mediterranean countries. It considers a group of retired and early-retired migrants who live permanently in Spain and have limited economic resources. Through a qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews with retirement migrants as well as ethnographic observations and spontaneous conversation…
Since I retired, I can take things as they come. For example, the laundry’: Gender, class and freedom in retirement in Switzerland
Population ageing has led many countries to be concerned about the ‘economic burden’ of elders, and several have adopted the active ageing paradigm to reform policy. However, gender differences that moderate the effect of active ageing have been little considered. As in other nations in the European Union, Swiss federal authorities use the active ageing paradigm to reshape ageing policies, including the provision of incentives to seniors to remai…
Swiss Retirees as “Active Agers”: A Critical Look at this New Social Role
Retirement migration and transnational grandparental support: A Spanish case study
People who migrate in retirement often do so to join younger generations who have already migrated, and to help with grandchildren. But what about those retirees who migrate away from their families? Do they still provide grandparental support? To address this question, we examine retirement migrants who reside permanently in their new country, Spain. We find that they are aware of grandparental support expectations, and that their migration deci…
Ageism and the digital divide in Switzerland during Covid-19: Lessons for the post-pandemic world
The COVID-19 pandemic erupted in early 2020. The Swiss Federal Council implemented a semi-lockdown in March 2020, asking people, particularly older adults, to stay at home to limit the transmission of the disease and to use digital tools to maintain their social relations and activities. This study inquired how older adults confronting precarity experienced these restrictions, how digital tools functioned in this context, and what learning could …
The cultural and structural motivations of cheap mobility: The case of retirement migrants in Spain and Costa Rica
Retirement migration is an increasingly common phenomenon. It involves the relocation of retirees from richer countries of the global North to places in the world where the costs of living are lower. In contrast from most other migrants, these retirees do not generally relocate to find more work opportunities. Aeromobility, namely frequent air travel, is a key aspect of their ability to be geographically mobile, which social scientists often depi…
Swiss Retirees as “Active Agers”: A Critical Look at this New Social Role
Retirement Migration in Europe: A Choice for a Better Life
This article examines the impact of economic inequalities on the individual choices that North European retirees make when they migrate to Mediterranean countries. It considers a group of retired and early-retired migrants who live permanently in Spain and have limited economic resources. Through a qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews with retirement migrants as well as ethnographic observations and spontaneous conversation…
Since I retired, I can take things as they come. For example, the laundry’: Gender, class and freedom in retirement in Switzerland
Population ageing has led many countries to be concerned about the ‘economic burden’ of elders, and several have adopted the active ageing paradigm to reform policy. However, gender differences that moderate the effect of active ageing have been little considered. As in other nations in the European Union, Swiss federal authorities use the active ageing paradigm to reshape ageing policies, including the provision of incentives to seniors to remai…
Democratic Theory as Social Codification
What is democratic theory? In this article we treat it as a semiotic code – that is to say, a shared assumption – and argue that democratic theory enables people to think and talk about the idea(s) of democracy. Furthermore, the application of this specific code is highly political. For one, it is embedded in concrete contexts and discourses and used in arguments and narratives. In addition, the application of democratic theory has also substanti…
Ageing Abroad. The Case of Swiss Nationals in Morocco and Spain
Cultural, social, and economic factors have led to an increase in late-life migration of citizens from richer countries to poorer ones. Although research interest in this phenomenon has risen as well, the case of people leaving Switzerland remains little studied. Yet, in 2017, 11 % of Swiss men and women aged 65 and over lived abroad. Drawing on two case studies of older Swiss migrants to Spain and Morocco, this article contributes to a better un…
Comment faire bénéficier les retraités des dividendes du patriarcat ? Débats scientifiques et solutions politiques (Suisse, 1946-1995)
La loi helvétique sur l’assurance vieillesse et survivants (AVS) entre en vigueur en 1948. Le nouveau temps de la retraite qu’elle institue nourrit de nombreuses discussions politiques et scientifiques quant aux conséquences de la fin de l’activité professionnelle des hommes. L’article se concentre sur les débats qui se déroulent en Suisse entre 1948 et 1995, que les auteur·e·s analysent à la lumière des travaux de Raewyn Connell sur les masculin…
Retirement migration and transnational grandparental support: A Spanish case study
People who migrate in retirement often do so to join younger generations who have already migrated, and to help with grandchildren. But what about those retirees who migrate away from their families? Do they still provide grandparental support? To address this question, we examine retirement migrants who reside permanently in their new country, Spain. We find that they are aware of grandparental support expectations, and that their migration deci…
Fin de carrière et vieillesse: Deux facettes d’un même risque
En Suisse, les risques de fin de carrière et vieillesse sont généralement traités politiquement comme deux problématiques distinctes, l’une relevant des politiques de l’emploi, l’autre de celles de la vieillesse. Cette séparation résulte de la genèse de la politique vieillesse en Suisse. En établissant l’âge d’accès à la rente de vieillesse à 65 ans, les responsables politiques ont renoncé à couvrir le risque d’appauvrissement des travailleurs di…
Ageing and Migration in a Global Context: Challenges for Welfare States
The cultural and structural motivations of cheap mobility: The case of retirement migrants in Spain and Costa Rica
Retirement migration is an increasingly common phenomenon. It involves the relocation of retirees from richer countries of the global North to places in the world where the costs of living are lower. In contrast from most other migrants, these retirees do not generally relocate to find more work opportunities. Aeromobility, namely frequent air travel, is a key aspect of their ability to be geographically mobile, which social scientists often depi…
Utile, mais pas indispensable ? Engagement bénévole des retraités et Covid-19
Bien que les contributions des retraités bénévoles occupent une place particulièrement importante dans l’organisation sociale de la Suisse, elles ne font l’objet que de peu de reconnaissance sociale. Cette situation questionne le rôle que peut jouer l’engagement bénévole dans l’inclusion sociale à la retraite, les effets inclusifs de tels engagements étant dépendants de la reconnaissance sociale des bénévoles. Cet article utilise les données d’un…
Vieillissement réussi, âgisme et persistance des rapports d’âge et de genre
Le paradigme gérontologique du vieillissement réussi vise à minimiser les conséquences du vieillissement. Il ne remet cependant pas en cause les rapports d’âge qui stigmatisent et dévalorisent la vieillesse. Au contraire, il pousse chacun·e à assumer individuellement les conséquences de cette stigmatisation, en imposant le devoir de résister à la vieillesse. Des entretiens avec des personnes d’âge moyen aux États-Unis sur le vieillissement réussi…
Vieilles, où serons-nous
est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement.Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage da…
Gergana Dimova, Democracy Beyond Elections: Government Accountability in the Media Age (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Towards Democratising Social Knowledge: A Political–Economic Analysis of the Departments of Social Work in Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences
In Switzerland, the relatively new social work departments are located in so-called universities of applied sciences (UASs), which provide a university-based and practice-oriented education. At the beginning, UASs were required to carry out ‘applied’ research and their teaching had to be ‘non-academic’, unlike in traditional universities. Although this definition is no longer present in the legal framework of tertiary education, it shapes policym…
Ageism and the digital divide in Switzerland during Covid-19: Lessons for the post-pandemic world
The COVID-19 pandemic erupted in early 2020. The Swiss Federal Council implemented a semi-lockdown in March 2020, asking people, particularly older adults, to stay at home to limit the transmission of the disease and to use digital tools to maintain their social relations and activities. This study inquired how older adults confronting precarity experienced these restrictions, how digital tools functioned in this context, and what learning could …
Developing 'Age-Friendly' Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants
Over the past two decades, the need to create 'age-friendly cities and communities' (AFCC) has emerged as a major theme in policies aimed at improving old people's physical and social environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) has driven this agenda through the launch in 2010 of the Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities. Support for ageing in place has, at the same time, run alongside an increase in international retirement …
Doctoral programs can improve social work in Switzerland
Social work remains a developing university discipline in Switzerland. Most of the current social work departments were established during the last two decades with the creation of Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS), which offer bachelor’s and master’s programs. To this day, social work UAS cannot award doctorates. This study explores the sociopolitical forces hindering doctoral studies in social work in Switzerland—including federalism, cons…
“I need time to recuperate, I really understand that: ” Benefits and Constraints Faced by Older Women in Formal Volunteer Roles
Older volunteers fulfill many social and cultural needs that strengthen social cohesion. Volunteering within an organization can provide adults new roles in later life, which can offer certain benefits. However, volunteering is unequally distributed in society, and older men and women do not play equal roles within organizations. Particularly, as compared to older men, older women perform more informal volunteering and are less likely to occupy m…
Ce que la montagne apprend du vieillissement et ce que le vieillissement apprend de la montagne
International audience
What The Mountain Learns from Aging and What Aging Learns from the Mountain
Community, solidarity, and poverty in mountain regions: The experiences of older adults in the Swiss Alps and Central Appalachia in the United States
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (6 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)