Social Relations, Long-Term Care, and Well-Being of Older Migrants in Luxembourg.

Scientific Conference (2015)

“Do You Want to Negotiate with Me?”– Avoiding and Dealing with Conflicts Arising in Conversations with the Young Unemployed

in Social Work & Society (2015), 13(1),

This paper addresses conflict talk in social services. We focus on naturally occurring face-to-face conversations between claimants and personal contact persons in German job centres for young people ... [more ▼]

This paper addresses conflict talk in social services. We focus on naturally occurring face-to-face conversations between claimants and personal contact persons in German job centres for young people under the age of 25. Using conversation analysis we identify conflict episodes arising in these conversations. We show how the participants display disagreement/agreement and how they escalate or terminate conflict episodes. We show that participants tend to avoid full confrontation in co-present interaction (both the ‘customer’ and the ‘personal contact person’). They tend to maintain social continuity. On the other hand, many ‘customers’ file a complaint against the decisions of job centres concerning their unemployment benefits. There seems to be a lack of conflict solution potential in this social service organisation. There are not enough intermediate ways to deal with conflicts, which interactants tend to avoid but which are of course still there. [less ▲]

Biographies and (trans)national social support of older migrants in Luxembourg.

Scientific Conference (2015)

Older migrants in Luxembourg – perspectives for care in old age between family and professional services

Scientific Conference (2014)

Rationalitäten des Übergangs in Erwerbsarbeit

Book published by Beltz Juventa (2014)

Gender at work: Interaktionen zwischen Fachkräften und Kund/innen im Jobcenter

in ARCHIV für Wissenschaft und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit (2014), 45(4), 3243

Care provision for and by older migrants in Luxmebourg

Scientific Conference (2014)

Professionelle Beratung im Kontext der Arbeitsverwaltung – die Quadratur des Kreises?

in Bauer, Petra; Weinhardt, Marc (Eds.) Perspektiven sozialpädagogischer Beratung (2014)

Die reflexive Couch. Feldforschungssupervision in der Ethnographie.

in Zeitschrift für Volkskunde (2013), 109(II), 181203

This article introduces ethno-psychoanalytically informed supervision of fieldwork as a methodological instrument of reflexive ethnography to the methodological de- bate of the discipline, and aims to ... [more ▼]

This article introduces ethno-psychoanalytically informed supervision of fieldwork as a methodological instrument of reflexive ethnography to the methodological de- bate of the discipline, and aims to strengthen this approach in research and teach- ing. The authors identify a contradiction between recurrent calls for reflexive re- search practices and the simultaneous fending off of (self-)reflexive modes of inter- pretation, which are frequently dismissed as overly psychologising or ‘narcissistic’. Using a case study, they show how in research supervision the process of associative interpretation within a group mirrors the irritation of the researcher and the emo- tional dynamics of the field situation. Taboos, power relations, structures of mean- ing and agency within the field are made visible as scenic arrangements and opened up to reflexive interpretation and objectivation. Supervision helps to resolve re- search blockages and to establish the necessary reflexive distance in relation to the field, because of the close relationship between psychoanalytical supervision meth- ods and an open, processual and dialogical ethnography. On an epistemological level, both supervision and research reflection are grounded in the mutual interde- pendence of the (researching) subject’s experience and overarching socio-cultural structures of meaning. The methodological-theoretical parallels between ethno- psychoanalysis and Bourdieu’s understanding of scientific reflexivity are developed, leading to a discussion of the conditions of ethnographic research in academic in- stitutional settings with their mechanisms of exclusions and potentials for suppres- sion and distortion, which are identified as a desideratum in the discipline’s self- reflection. [less ▲]

Alter(n) als Übergangsprozess

in Schröer, Wolfgang; Stauber, Barbara; Walther, Andreas (Eds.) et al Handbuch Übergänge (2013)