Research Projects Social Work
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School misallocation of Refugee children?
Statistical data show that in Switzerland, including the canton of Zurich, children with a migrant background are disproportionately likely to learn in special education, separative or integrated settings. Using qualitative interviews, the educational history of 6 individual cases of children and adolescents who ...
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Childhood vulnerability and children’s understandings of well-being
All people are vulnerable, but vulnerability is unequally distributed - some people are more vulnerable than others. What this means for children and youth and how they understand well-being is the goal of the qualitative SNF research project. Background Social work often deals with children and youth who are ...
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Data collection of pandemic-related, cost-free meal, food, and voucher charges in the city of Zurich
Baseline The Covid 19 pandemic and its accompanying measures directly affect various sectors of the population. Numerous public and private institutions are providing assistance, including the distribution of food vouchers and reduced-price or free food and meals. During the 2020 lockdown, in addition to the ...
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Zurich Adoption Study
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Family resources in crisis?
Abstract This study sheds light on how parents and adolescents in child and youth care experienced the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in the canton of Zurich. Subsequently, we researched what role different child and youth care services and child protection interventions had in these times for ...
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Towards agile social and health care services in Swiss inpatient facilities
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Crisis Management of the Covid 19 Epidemic in coercive contexts
The Covic19 pandemic is currently being handled by prevention measures, which are primarily characterised by contact arrangements in public spaces and exit restrictions. The question arises how prevention measures are organised in coercive contexts, namely the judicial system. In order to investigate this ...
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Juvenile delinquency and cybermobbing in Switzerland
After years of declining juvenile delinquency registered by the police in Switzerland, it seems that there has recently been an increase again. Evidence of this can also be found in surveys on self-reported delinquency. However, such dark field studies are contradictory with regard to the development of juvenile ...
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Young people and the Corona period
Since March 2020, many societies found themselves in a state of emergency due to the Corona pandemic. Various measures were implemented, which were aimed in particular at reducing social contact and which changed people's everyday lives to an unprecedented extent. One group that can be classified as particularly ...
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Affective Activism. The feeling of belonging in transgender communities
This project titled "Affective Activism. The feeling of belonging in transgender communities" examines the recent extensive transnational political activism of transgender people - those expressing variance from gender-conforming norms. Transgender persons are increasingly visible, with unprecedented media coverage ...