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Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

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Boundaries and urban worlds: the contested ethnoscape of expatriates in Geneva

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

Numerous researches, and more particularly in the field of migration and transnational mobility. However, studies of the impact of migrants on cities themselves remain insufficient. Based on ethnographic work within the United Nations office in Geneva, thi ...

2016

Translating the City: Interdisciplinarity in urban studies

Yves Pedrazzini, Stéphanie Vincent, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy, Yafiza Zorro Maldonado

Cities are a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, ana- lyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urb ...

EPFL Press / Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group2015

Boundaries and Urban Worlds. The Contested Ethnoscape of Expatriates in Geneva

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

After having for long time been neglected by social anthropologists, cities are nowadays central in numerous researches, and more particularly in the field of migration and transnational mobility. However, studies of the impact of migrants on cities themse ...

2013

A Genève, la perception des fonctionnaires internationaux est passée de l’enthousiasme qui a accompagné l’installation de la Société des Nations en 1920 à l’accusation de faire monter les prix du logement un siècle plus tard. Le développement urbain et éco ...

2013

Cet article interroge la pluralisation des territoires sous influence urbaine dans l’agglomération transfrontalière de Genève en s’appuyant sur une approche par les modes de vie. Cette approche, développée au Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine de l’EPFL, co ...

Association Espaces Temps2013

Within the field of migration studies, the construction of transnational networks and multilocal belongings has been widely described (Beck 2000, Glick-Schiller et al. 1995). However, much of this literature focuses on the construction of networks based on ...

2012

In the literature on cities and elite migration, the processes through which gentrified neighborhoods emerge and effect on urban life in terms of segregation have been widely studied. However, studies on how host societies negotiate the encounter with elit ...

2012

A l’instar du rêve de mobilité que traduisent les discours politiques et économiques, la littérature scientifique sur les migrations transnationales et sur la globalisation a également nourri l’imaginaire de sociétés interconnectées et fluides (Bauman 2000 ...

2012

The aim of this paper is to analyse the way housing crisis influences the residential mobility of transnational elites in the Geneva metropolitan area. On the one hand, it is based on a quantitative research mandated by local political authorities and on t ...

2011

La ville de Genève a une longue tradition en matière de coopération et de diplomatie. Elle abrite aujourd’hui le siège de 22 organisations internationales, 250 organisations non-gouvernementales et constitue avec ses 40'000 fonctionnaires internationaux et ...

2011