Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic Perspective
The article presents the empirical findings of a multi-site ethnography in two organizations in Swiss street-level bureaucracy. We examined both a municipal child welfare office and the police force of a medium-sized city. The focus was on the question as to whether and how ethnic differentiation ta...
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| description | The article presents the empirical findings of a multi-site ethnography in two organizations in Swiss street-level bureaucracy. We examined both a municipal child welfare office and the police force of a medium-sized city. The focus was on the question as to whether and how ethnic differentiation takes place in such public agencies and what role it plays at work. The findings suggest that un/doing ethnicity follows an instrumental logic and that it is executed in manifold and ambivalent ways. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b380ab91f6594cada07e58cf134818db2025-08-20T01:54:45ZdeuSeismo VerlagSwiss Journal of Sociology2297-83482019-03-01451355510.2478/sjs-2019-0003sjs-2019-0003Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic PerspectivePiñeiro Esteban0Koch Martina1Pasche Nathalie2Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit, Institut Sozialplanung, Organisationaler Wandel und Stadtentwicklung, CH-4053BaselHochschule für Soziale Arbeit, Institut Sozialplanung, Organisationaler Wandel und Stadtentwicklung, CH-4053BaselHochschule für Soziale Arbeit, Institut Sozialplanung, Organisationaler Wandel und Stadtentwicklung, CH-4053BaselThe article presents the empirical findings of a multi-site ethnography in two organizations in Swiss street-level bureaucracy. We examined both a municipal child welfare office and the police force of a medium-sized city. The focus was on the question as to whether and how ethnic differentiation takes place in such public agencies and what role it plays at work. The findings suggest that un/doing ethnicity follows an instrumental logic and that it is executed in manifold and ambivalent ways.https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2019-0003un/doing ethnicitystreet-level bureaucracymulti-sited ethnographypolice forcechild welfare office |
| spellingShingle | Piñeiro Esteban Koch Martina Pasche Nathalie Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic Perspective Swiss Journal of Sociology un/doing ethnicity street-level bureaucracy multi-sited ethnography police force child welfare office |
| title | Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic Perspective |
| title_full | Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic Perspective |
| title_short | Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic Perspective |
| title_sort | un doing ethnicity in intervening swiss street level bureaucracy a police service and a child welfare service an ethnographic perspective |
| topic | un/doing ethnicity street-level bureaucracy multi-sited ethnography police force child welfare office |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2019-0003 |
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