Publications by Maxime Carl Felder

“You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ” Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media

This article examines how social media shapes expressions of belonging through the analysis of a neighbourhood-based Facebook group as an online local community. While the group’s title suggests an exclusive, conditional definition of belonging (“You are f ...

Informa UK Limited2025

Les intimations de l’intimité en situation d’hospitalité

Maxime Carl Felder

Les migrant·es en situation précaire sont souvent hébergé·es dans un premier temps par des proches ou des connaissances. Cette situation les amène à faire l’expérience de l’intimité d’autrui, qui peut apparaître comme un fardeau et une source d’inquiétudes ...

OpenEdition2025

De l'urbain ordinaire aux villes singulières

Vincent Kaufmann, Yves Pedrazzini, Maxime Carl Felder, Renate Albrecher

EPFL Press2024

Die Schweiz von A(rbon) bis Z(ug). Porträt in 12 Städten

Vincent Kaufmann, Yves Pedrazzini, Maxime Carl Felder, Renate Albrecher

Was wäre, wenn man die urbane Schweiz nicht aus der Perspektive ihrer wenigen Metropolen beschreiben wu¨rde, sondern aus jener von Städten, die oftmals als „klein”, „mittel”, „sekundär” oder „gewöhnlich” bezeichnet werden? Diese stellen den Grossteil der S ...

EPFL Press2024

Ein Porträt der Schweiz anhand von zwölf Städten

Vincent Kaufmann, Yves Pedrazzini, Maxime Carl Felder, Renate Albrecher

EPFL Press2024

La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug) Portrait en 12 villes

Vincent Kaufmann, Yves Pedrazzini, Martin Schuler, Maxime Carl Felder, Pierre-Emmanuel Dessemontet, Renate Albrecher, Franziska Meinherz, Carmen Fischer, Gian Paolo Torricelli

Et si l'on pensait la Suisse urbaine non pas à partir de ses métropoles, mais de ces villes comme le pays en compte des dizaines ? Celles-ci représentent davantage la norme que l'exception dans le paysage helvétique contemporaine. Pourtant, en Suisse, comm ...

EPFL Press2024

Beyond support or exploitation: inequality and reciprocity in informal housing arrangements between newcomers and their migrant hosts

Maxime Carl Felder

In cities facing housing shortages, vulnerable newcomers almost always live with family or friends upon arrival. While social networks are often seen as a source of support that facilitates migration and settlement, research has also shown that newcomers c ...

Informa UK Limited2024

Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings

Maxime Carl Felder, Guillaume Favre

While scholars have long established that city dwellers choose with whom to develop relationships on the basis of social proximity, spatial proximity remains the basis for neighbour relations involving greetings, social conversation, and the exchange of se ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2023

Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Maxime Carl Felder

In the wealthy and orderly city of Geneva, Switzerland, accommodation centres built in haste between the 1950s and the 1980s to house seasonal guestworkers from southern Europe are still standing and still inhabited. Today's residents are precarious worker ...

2023

Social Workers and Irregular Migrants in the Assistance Circuit: Making Sense of Paradoxical Inclusion

Maxime Carl Felder, Joan Stavo-Debauge, Sahar Fneich

Despite restrictive policy frameworks, cities sometimes provide support to irregular migrants. Scholars have analysed these forms of inclusion, focusing on policies and tensions between inclusionary approaches by local or urban actors and exclusionary appr ...

2023