Carolin Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolin Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolin |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Neuchâtel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5995-5114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Questioning the Safe Haven
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland
In recent years, activists and scholars from different disciplines have criticised the tightening asylum governance and the limits of the right to asylum in Europe. This paper shifts the focus to those asylum seekers who successfully accessed European grounds and were granted legal protection. It explores how their lives unfold once they have reached a legal safe haven. What are everyday meanings and experiences of legal protection? And how do th…
(Doing) belonging as technology of power
This paper analyses how the principle of gender equality informs politics of belonging in Switzerland. We propose to conceptualize 'doing belonging' as a technology of power and we examine how actors in (non-)institutional settings employ it as part of professional and personal action. The paper draws on two case studies: an ethnography of institutions in charge of Swiss naturalization procedures and a series of qualitative interviews with migran…
Working for Protection? Precarious Legal Inclusion of Afghan Nationals in Germany and Switzerland
This paper engages with the violent conditions deriving from neoliberal trends in European migration and asylum governance. We explore how continuous precarity, in conjunction with an integration imperative, affects the lives of recently arrived Afghan refugees in Germany and Switzerland. Drawing on critical engagements with the politics of integration and theories of violence, we argue that, in both European countries, Afghans are increasingly f…
Männlichkeit im Spannungsfeld
Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen ambivalenter Männlichkeitskonstruktionen auf die Lebensrealitäten und Handlungsstrategien von afghanischen Geflüchteten in Deutschland und der Schweiz. Wir zeigen, wie Argwohn, Ausgrenzungserfahrungen und rechtliche Prekarität in der Aufnahmegesellschaft in Kombination mit Verantwortungsgefühlen gegenüber Familienmitgliedern ein vergeschlechtlichtes Spannungsfeld für männliche Geflüchtete erzeu…
Knowledge production, reflexivity, and the use of categories in migration studies
Recent debates in migration studies target the non-reflexive use of categories that derive from nation-state- and ethnicity-centred epistemologies. However, what a category is and how categorization works remain undertheorized. Our paper addresses this gap. Through a qualitative study on experiences of Othering among migrant descendants in Zurich (CH) and Edinburgh (UK), we scrutinize the perspectival, political, and performative nature of catego…
Manifestations and Contestations of Borders and Boundaries in Everyday Understandings of Integration
This article asks how borders and boundaries manifest themselves in understandings of integration. Drawing on qualitative interviews with migrant descendants living in Zürich, Switzerland, it investigates how understandings of integration are experienced, interpreted, appropriated and modified, in relation to either the self or others. I employ de Certeau’s theory of the practice of everyday life to establish how borders and boundaries are reflec…
Revisiting Borders and Boundaries
In recent years, scholarly interest in boundaries and boundary work, on the one hand, and borders and bordering, on the other, has flourished across disciplines. Notwithstanding the close relationship between the two concepts, “borders” and “boundaries” have largely been subject to separate scholarly debates, or sometimes treated as synonymous. These trends point to an important lack of conceptual and analytical clarity as to what borders and bou…
Dimensions of agency in transnational relations of Afghan migrants and return migrants
This article examines agency unfolding in the relationships that Afghan migrants and return migrants maintain with Afghanistan. Based on qualitative case studies of Afghan diaspora groups in Germany and the UK and Afghan return migrants in Kabul, we focus on how people engage with and position themselves in relation to Afghanistan. Drawing on Emirbayer and Mische’s tri-dimensional concept of agency in combination with Vigh’s idea of social naviga…
Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies
Reframing transnational engagement
In recent years, there have been repeated calls to refocus studies of diasporic engagements, especially their conceptual underpinnings, underlying assumptions and units of analysis. Based on a qualitative case study of Afghan diasporic groups in Britain and Germany, I propose a refined approach to such engagements. I combine the distinction between different spheres of engagement with key concepts from relational sociology. Afghans in both countr…
Gender representations in politics of belonging
The literature increasingly recognises the importance of gender in defining the boundaries between national societies and migrants. But little is still known about the history and changes of mechanisms that shape the role of gender as category of difference. Based on a critical case study of Switzerland, this article examines how gender is implicated in the politics of migrant admission and incorporation and underlying notions of ‘the other’. Dra…
Imagined Communities? Relations of Social Identities and Social Organisation among Afghan Diaspora Groups in Germany and the UK
This paper engages with the complexity of diaspora by focusing on the links between self-identification, external categorisation and emerging ties among Afghans in Britain and Germany. Based on a qualitative case study and drawing on relational sociology, it demonstrates that family ties, class backgrounds, ethnicity and political affiliations inform peoples’ attitudes towards each other and foster dynamics of inclusion, exclusion and group forma…
Abkehr von Schönheit und Ideal in der Liebeslyrik
Tagungsbericht zum Symposion an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin aus Anlaß des 65. Geburtstages von Peter Brockmeier 8.-11. April 1999 Der Wahl des Themas "Abkehr von Schönheit und Ideal in der Liebeslyrik" lag die Beobachtung zugrunde, daß sich zwar eine Vielzahl von Publikationen mit Aspekten der Liebeslyrik oder der Ästhetisierung des Häßlichen beschäftigen, jedoch nur selten der Versuch unternommen wird, diese unter einer übergeordneten Fra…
Abkehr von Schönheit und Ideal in der Liebeslyrik
Gewalt der Geschichte — Geschichten der Gewalt
Im ersten Beitrag dieses Bandes stellt der Politologe Gian Enrico Rusconi drei wesentliche Etappen der Gewalttätigkeit nach dem Sturz der Faschisten in Italien fest: Partisanenkampf, Terrorismus und M
Gewalt der Geschichte, Geschichten der Gewalt
L’Age d’or
Als goldenes Zeitalter bezeichnen die meisten Nachschlagewerke zur erotischen Literatur das französische 18. Jahrhundert. Dies ist zweifellos richtig, denn zu kaum einer anderen Zeit spielt die Erotik auf den verschiedenen literarischen Ebenen eine derartig umfassende Rolle. Nicht nur in erregenden und galanten Romanen, auch in den Texten der Aufklärer kommt ihr eine zentrale Bedeutung zu. Der Harem in Montesquieus Lettres persanes ist Sinnbild u…
Gärten der Lust
Gärten der Lust
Le Triomphe de la volupté
Gleich drei Klassiker der erotischen Literatur erschienen im Jahre 1748: Fanny Hill, Diderots Bijoux indiscrets und Thérèse philosophe — «on peut dire que la date de 1748 marque la rencontre et la fusion du roman libertin et du roman philosophique».1 Zu Unrecht war das zuletzt genannte Werk lange Zeit das am wenigsten bekannte; die zahlreichen Ausgaben der vergangenen Jahre in verschiedenen Sprachen und Ländern scheinen diesen Mangel wettmachen z…
Education érotique
Education érotique
Working for Protection? Precarious Legal Inclusion of Afghan Nationals in Germany and Switzerland
This paper engages with the violent conditions deriving from neoliberal trends in European migration and asylum governance. We explore how continuous precarity, in conjunction with an integration imperative, affects the lives of recently arrived Afghan refugees in Germany and Switzerland. Drawing on critical engagements with the politics of integration and theories of violence, we argue that, in both European countries, Afghans are increasingly f…
Gender representations in politics of belonging
The literature increasingly recognises the importance of gender in defining the boundaries between national societies and migrants. But little is still known about the history and changes of mechanisms that shape the role of gender as category of difference. Based on a critical case study of Switzerland, this article examines how gender is implicated in the politics of migrant admission and incorporation and underlying notions of ‘the other’. Dra…
Imagined Communities? Relations of Social Identities and Social Organisation among Afghan Diaspora Groups in Germany and the UK
This paper engages with the complexity of diaspora by focusing on the links between self-identification, external categorisation and emerging ties among Afghans in Britain and Germany. Based on a qualitative case study and drawing on relational sociology, it demonstrates that family ties, class backgrounds, ethnicity and political affiliations inform peoples’ attitudes towards each other and foster dynamics of inclusion, exclusion and group forma…
Reframing transnational engagement
In recent years, there have been repeated calls to refocus studies of diasporic engagements, especially their conceptual underpinnings, underlying assumptions and units of analysis. Based on a qualitative case study of Afghan diasporic groups in Britain and Germany, I propose a refined approach to such engagements. I combine the distinction between different spheres of engagement with key concepts from relational sociology. Afghans in both countr…
Dimensions of agency in transnational relations of Afghan migrants and return migrants
This article examines agency unfolding in the relationships that Afghan migrants and return migrants maintain with Afghanistan. Based on qualitative case studies of Afghan diaspora groups in Germany and the UK and Afghan return migrants in Kabul, we focus on how people engage with and position themselves in relation to Afghanistan. Drawing on Emirbayer and Mische’s tri-dimensional concept of agency in combination with Vigh’s idea of social naviga…
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland
In recent years, activists and scholars from different disciplines have criticised the tightening asylum governance and the limits of the right to asylum in Europe. This paper shifts the focus to those asylum seekers who successfully accessed European grounds and were granted legal protection. It explores how their lives unfold once they have reached a legal safe haven. What are everyday meanings and experiences of legal protection? And how do th…
(Doing) belonging as technology of power
This paper analyses how the principle of gender equality informs politics of belonging in Switzerland. We propose to conceptualize 'doing belonging' as a technology of power and we examine how actors in (non-)institutional settings employ it as part of professional and personal action. The paper draws on two case studies: an ethnography of institutions in charge of Swiss naturalization procedures and a series of qualitative interviews with migran…
Le Triomphe de la volupté
Gleich drei Klassiker der erotischen Literatur erschienen im Jahre 1748: Fanny Hill, Diderots Bijoux indiscrets und Thérèse philosophe — «on peut dire que la date de 1748 marque la rencontre et la fusion du roman libertin et du roman philosophique».1 Zu Unrecht war das zuletzt genannte Werk lange Zeit das am wenigsten bekannte; die zahlreichen Ausgaben der vergangenen Jahre in verschiedenen Sprachen und Ländern scheinen diesen Mangel wettmachen z…
Education érotique
Education érotique
L’Age d’or
Als goldenes Zeitalter bezeichnen die meisten Nachschlagewerke zur erotischen Literatur das französische 18. Jahrhundert. Dies ist zweifellos richtig, denn zu kaum einer anderen Zeit spielt die Erotik auf den verschiedenen literarischen Ebenen eine derartig umfassende Rolle. Nicht nur in erregenden und galanten Romanen, auch in den Texten der Aufklärer kommt ihr eine zentrale Bedeutung zu. Der Harem in Montesquieus Lettres persanes ist Sinnbild u…
Gärten der Lust
Gärten der Lust
Gewalt der Geschichte — Geschichten der Gewalt
Im ersten Beitrag dieses Bandes stellt der Politologe Gian Enrico Rusconi drei wesentliche Etappen der Gewalttätigkeit nach dem Sturz der Faschisten in Italien fest: Partisanenkampf, Terrorismus und M
Gewalt der Geschichte, Geschichten der Gewalt
Abkehr von Schönheit und Ideal in der Liebeslyrik
Tagungsbericht zum Symposion an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin aus Anlaß des 65. Geburtstages von Peter Brockmeier 8.-11. April 1999 Der Wahl des Themas "Abkehr von Schönheit und Ideal in der Liebeslyrik" lag die Beobachtung zugrunde, daß sich zwar eine Vielzahl von Publikationen mit Aspekten der Liebeslyrik oder der Ästhetisierung des Häßlichen beschäftigen, jedoch nur selten der Versuch unternommen wird, diese unter einer übergeordneten Fra…
Abkehr von Schönheit und Ideal in der Liebeslyrik
Gender representations in politics of belonging
The literature increasingly recognises the importance of gender in defining the boundaries between national societies and migrants. But little is still known about the history and changes of mechanisms that shape the role of gender as category of difference. Based on a critical case study of Switzerland, this article examines how gender is implicated in the politics of migrant admission and incorporation and underlying notions of ‘the other’. Dra…
Imagined Communities? Relations of Social Identities and Social Organisation among Afghan Diaspora Groups in Germany and the UK
This paper engages with the complexity of diaspora by focusing on the links between self-identification, external categorisation and emerging ties among Afghans in Britain and Germany. Based on a qualitative case study and drawing on relational sociology, it demonstrates that family ties, class backgrounds, ethnicity and political affiliations inform peoples’ attitudes towards each other and foster dynamics of inclusion, exclusion and group forma…
Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies
Reframing transnational engagement
In recent years, there have been repeated calls to refocus studies of diasporic engagements, especially their conceptual underpinnings, underlying assumptions and units of analysis. Based on a qualitative case study of Afghan diasporic groups in Britain and Germany, I propose a refined approach to such engagements. I combine the distinction between different spheres of engagement with key concepts from relational sociology. Afghans in both countr…
Dimensions of agency in transnational relations of Afghan migrants and return migrants
This article examines agency unfolding in the relationships that Afghan migrants and return migrants maintain with Afghanistan. Based on qualitative case studies of Afghan diaspora groups in Germany and the UK and Afghan return migrants in Kabul, we focus on how people engage with and position themselves in relation to Afghanistan. Drawing on Emirbayer and Mische’s tri-dimensional concept of agency in combination with Vigh’s idea of social naviga…
Manifestations and Contestations of Borders and Boundaries in Everyday Understandings of Integration
This article asks how borders and boundaries manifest themselves in understandings of integration. Drawing on qualitative interviews with migrant descendants living in Zürich, Switzerland, it investigates how understandings of integration are experienced, interpreted, appropriated and modified, in relation to either the self or others. I employ de Certeau’s theory of the practice of everyday life to establish how borders and boundaries are reflec…
Revisiting Borders and Boundaries
In recent years, scholarly interest in boundaries and boundary work, on the one hand, and borders and bordering, on the other, has flourished across disciplines. Notwithstanding the close relationship between the two concepts, “borders” and “boundaries” have largely been subject to separate scholarly debates, or sometimes treated as synonymous. These trends point to an important lack of conceptual and analytical clarity as to what borders and bou…
Männlichkeit im Spannungsfeld
Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen ambivalenter Männlichkeitskonstruktionen auf die Lebensrealitäten und Handlungsstrategien von afghanischen Geflüchteten in Deutschland und der Schweiz. Wir zeigen, wie Argwohn, Ausgrenzungserfahrungen und rechtliche Prekarität in der Aufnahmegesellschaft in Kombination mit Verantwortungsgefühlen gegenüber Familienmitgliedern ein vergeschlechtlichtes Spannungsfeld für männliche Geflüchtete erzeu…
Knowledge production, reflexivity, and the use of categories in migration studies
Recent debates in migration studies target the non-reflexive use of categories that derive from nation-state- and ethnicity-centred epistemologies. However, what a category is and how categorization works remain undertheorized. Our paper addresses this gap. Through a qualitative study on experiences of Othering among migrant descendants in Zurich (CH) and Edinburgh (UK), we scrutinize the perspectival, political, and performative nature of catego…
Working for Protection? Precarious Legal Inclusion of Afghan Nationals in Germany and Switzerland
This paper engages with the violent conditions deriving from neoliberal trends in European migration and asylum governance. We explore how continuous precarity, in conjunction with an integration imperative, affects the lives of recently arrived Afghan refugees in Germany and Switzerland. Drawing on critical engagements with the politics of integration and theories of violence, we argue that, in both European countries, Afghans are increasingly f…
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland
In recent years, activists and scholars from different disciplines have criticised the tightening asylum governance and the limits of the right to asylum in Europe. This paper shifts the focus to those asylum seekers who successfully accessed European grounds and were granted legal protection. It explores how their lives unfold once they have reached a legal safe haven. What are everyday meanings and experiences of legal protection? And how do th…
(Doing) belonging as technology of power
This paper analyses how the principle of gender equality informs politics of belonging in Switzerland. We propose to conceptualize 'doing belonging' as a technology of power and we examine how actors in (non-)institutional settings employ it as part of professional and personal action. The paper draws on two case studies: an ethnography of institutions in charge of Swiss naturalization procedures and a series of qualitative interviews with migran…
Questioning the Safe Haven
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)