[Euromixproject.rch] Publications

[Gwendolyn Gillieron]

Hi!

I’m happy to announce my latest publications!

The first article „Learning from Erving Goffman : Understanding the Experiences of “Mixed” Individuals in Switzerland and Morocco as a Stigma Management“ was just published in the polish journal of sociology. It is part of the special issue to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Erving Goffman. In this article I take his theory of stigma to analyse the experiences of mixed children from Switzerland and Morocco and I develop 4 types of stigma management: (1) attempting to unify the different origins, (2) developing an expert attitude, (3) looking for alternative spaces of belonging, (4) normalizing the “mixed” origin. I argue, that experience processes of othering leading to experiences of non-belonging which can be analyzed as stigmatization processes. This is a specific manifestation of stigma that develops its importance in connection with national discourses on migration and social lines of difference. This means that mixedness does not per se and always lead to stigma but only becomes effective in the intersection of race, class, gender, language, natio-ethno-cultural or religious affiliation and social hierarchies.
The article is on open access here: https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/index.php/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/1926  <https://journals.ltn.lodz.pl/index.php/Przeglad-Socjologiczny/article/view/1926>
 
Second, my article „Changing from Visibility to Invisibility—An Intersectional Perspective on Mixedness in Switzerland and Morocco“ was published by the journal Genealogy in a special issu edited by Dan Rodríguez-García. The article discusses how and under which circumstances mixed children become visible in Switzerland and Morocco using a comparative and intersectional approach to mixedness. However, I go beyond a separate analysis of categories, analyzing the interrelation of different dimensions of mixedness. In taking up tree  situations (racialization, language practices and othering due to religious affiliation), I show how mixed individuals may change their position from visibility and invisibility and vice versa in different situations and contexts.  It is argued that mixedness is are a relational phenomenon depending not only on markers such as ‘race’, ethnicity and religion but also on their interplay with gender, class, language and biographical experiences.
The article is on open access here: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/6/2/30 <https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/6/2/30> 

And finally, I would like to point to my thesis published last summer by Barbara Budrich „Binationae Herkunft und Zugehörigkeit. Biographische Aushandlungsprozesse junger Ewachsener in Marokko und der Schweiz". It is in german and on open access : https://shop.budrich.de/en/product/binationale-herkunft-und-zugehoerigkeit/ <https://shop.budrich.de/en/product/binationale-herkunft-und-zugehoerigkeit/>  
In my thesis (which was published in extenso) I analyze biographical negotiations of people of binational origin in Switzerland and Morocco. I was particularly interested in how and when mixedness turns into a ressource and when it may be experienced as a burden  Further, I show the different strategies mixed individuals put in place to develop an "inner balance" between the social ascriptions and the personal desires and needs.

All the bests,

Gwendolyn Gilliéron
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Dr. in Soziologie 
Lektorin an der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Strasbourg

Arbeitsbereich Migration und vergleichende qualitative Forschung

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