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Repetti Marion

Professeur-e HES Ordinaire, Responsable de l'institut Travail social

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Professeur-e HES Ordinaire, Responsable de l'institut Travail social

Phone: +41 58 606 91 21

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HES-SO Valais-Wallis - HESTS
Route de la Plaine 2, 3960 Sierre, CH

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VIVRA « Bien vivre sa retraite avec les autres. Engagements, compétences et qualité de la vie à l'ère du lifelong learning »

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Role: Main Applicant

Financement: VS - Institut Travail social; Université de Lausanne ISS; VS - Institut Travail social

Description du projet : Projet ouvert à la demande de Marion Repetti. Engagement d'une personne pour 2 ans Financement par le socle et éventuellement les subvention pour les forfaits de préparation au dépôt de projets FNS et Leenards ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ce projet de recherche, d'une durée de trois ans, se situe dans le sillon des travaux en sciences humaines et sociales qui visent à étudier comment les seniors (dès l'âge de la retraite) font face aux défis sociaux et psychologiques posés par l'entrée dans l'âge de la retraite et au-delà. Ils sont en grande partie inédits du fait du contexte sociodémographique actuel et de la transformations des parcours de vie des femmes et des hommes qui deviennent rentiers.ières de l'AVS. Il s'agit d'un moment de transition particulier, qui marque le début d'une étape du parcours de vie parfois plus vulnérable que les autres, du point économique, psychosocial et de la santé. Mais il peut aussi être l'occasion du développement de nouveaux engagements. et compétences. Il s'agit d'une problématique qui touche en même temps les parcours et la qualité de vie des individus, ainsi que la cohésion sociale et les relations intergénérationnelles. La question de la « participation sociale » des seniors comme lieu potentiel pour favoriser l'intégration et l'échange intergénérationnel se situe au coeur d'enjeux majeurs dans le contexte suisse actuel, tout à la fois politiques, économiques et existentiels. Pour autant, peu de connaissances scientifiques sont produites concernant les modes actuels d'engagement des seniors, leur impact sur la qualité de la vie des seniors, du point de vue des personnes elles-mêmes, et leurs apports à l'ensemble de la socitété. C'est pour combler ce manque que nous nous intéressons en particulier aux rôles que l'engagement des seniors dans la vie associative peut jouer dans l'acquisition et la mobilisation de compétences, sur l'échange et le transfert de ces compétences au niveau intergénérationnel, ainsi que sur la perception que ces personnes ont de leur propre qualité de vie.

Research team within HES-SO: Repetti Marion , Mesnard Pauline , Harrison Kelly

Durée du projet: 01.12.2019 - 31.12.2023

Montant global du projet: 188'852 CHF

Statut: Completed

2024

Ageism and the digital divide in Switzerland during COVID-19 :

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lessons for the post-pandemic world

Marion Repetti, Elisa Fellay-Favre

Journal of Aging Studies, 2024, vol. 69, June

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The COVID-19 pandemic erupted in early 2020. The Swiss Federal Council implemented a semi-lockdown in March 2020, asking people, particularly older adults, to stay at home to limit the transmission of the disease and to use digital tools to maintain their social relations and activities. This study inquired how older adults confronting precarity experienced these restrictions, how digital tools functioned in this context, and what learning could therefore be imbibed for the post-pandemic era. We conducted semi-structured telephone interviews with adults aged between 66 and 90 years living in a rural and mountainous Swiss region. The obtained data were subsequently thematically analyzed. The results revealed that the respondents experienced ageism during the semi-lockdown and reported limited or non-existent opportunities to use digital tools to maintain online social contact. This predicament increased their sense of loneliness and amplified their feelings of rejection by the outside world. These observations elucidate the need for the enhancement of non-ageist social support for older people, including individuals with limited social and material resources. We advocate the adoption of innovative initiatives in the post-pandemic era to better include precarious older people in our localities and neighborhoods.

2022

L’«environnementalisation» du travail social :

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enjeux pour la formation et la pratique face à la crise climatique

Tristan Loloum, Marion Repetti, Alexandre Santos

Revue suisse de travail social = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziale Arbeit, 2022, No 29, p. 16-35

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The ecological and climate crisis is leading to new forms of socio-environmental inequalities. However, these issues still occupy little space in social work training and professions. How can this relative absence be explained? In this article, we hypothesize that the persistence of “modern” modes of thinking and state action delays the emergence of a “social environmental work”, and we deliver a series of recommendations to make environmental and climate challenges more present in social work training and practice.

Vieilles, où serons-nous ?

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Clothilde Palazzo-Crettol, Farinaz Fassa, Marion Repetti, Vanina Mozziconacci

2022 , Nouvelles Questions Féministes , 2022, vol. 41, n. 1, p. 6-14

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Utile, mais pas indispensable? Engagement bénévole des retraités et Covid-19

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Marion Repetti, Pauline Mesnard, Farinaz Fassa, Kelly Harrison

Gérontologie et société, 2022, vol. 44, no 167, p. 173-188

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Towards democratising social knowledge :

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a political–economic analysis of the departments of social work in Swiss universities of applied sciences

Marion Repetti

The British Journal of Social Work, 2022, published 19 February 2022

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In Switzerland, the relatively new social work departments are located in so-called universities of applied sciences (UASs), which provide a university-based and practice-oriented education. At the beginning, UASs were required to carry out ‘applied’ research and their teaching had to be ‘non-academic’, unlike in traditional universities. Although this definition is no longer present in the legal framework of tertiary education, it shapes policymakers’ representations. In reality, research and teaching agendas in UAS departments of social work have become similar to those of the social sciences departments in traditional universities. However, two aspects differentiate them from their counterparts in traditional universities and from other UAS departments today: Less research funding is available and social work students are more likely to accumulate socio-economic disadvantages compared to elsewhere. In this article, I discuss the role of social work departments in Switzerland, with a focus on the social knowledge they produce and transfer into teaching programmes and society. In addition, I use Arendt’s thoughts about knowledge, education and democracy to reflect on the existing gap between political representations of—and what takes place in—UAS departments of social work in Switzerland. The article ends with recommendations for policymakers in Switzerland and abroad.

Le climat redessine le role du travail social. REISO Revue d'information sociale

Professional paper

Santos Mella Alexandre, Repetti Marion, Kniel-Fux Lucie

REISO Revue d'information sociale, 2022

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Gergana Dimova, Democracy Beyond Elections: Government Accountability in the Media Age (review)

Scientific paper

Repetti Marion

Democratic Theory, 2022 , vol. 9, no 1, pp. 112-116

Towards the democratisation of social knowledge? The case of departments of social work in Swiss universities of applied sciences

Scientific paper

Repetti Marion

The British Journal of Social Work, 2022

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2021

The cultural and structural motivations of cheap mobility :

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The case of retirement migrants in Spain and Costa Rica

Marion Repetti, Jennifer L. Lawrence

Geoforum, 2021, 124, p. 156-164

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Retirement migration is an increasingly common phenomenon. It involves the relocation of retirees from richer countries of the global North to places in the world where the costs of living are lower. In contrast from most other migrants, these retirees do not generally relocate to find more work opportunities. Aeromobility, namely frequent air travel, is a key aspect of their ability to be geographically mobile, which social scientists often depict as reflecting the economic advantages and consumerist culture of a new generation of older people. In addition, some experts consider older people’s carbon footprint to be particularly large due to their economic advantages and lack of ecological values (e.g., see Haq et al., 2010). The literature on retirement migration scarcely focuses on the role that aeromobility—particularly cheap flights—plays in retirement migrants’ decision to relocate and their experiences after migration. Using the cases of retirement migrants in Spain and Costa Rica, this article aims to better understand why some retired citizens of richer countries engage in lifestyles based on high-frequency travel, particularly when their migration is driven by the search for more economic security. To answer this question, we argue that values alone do not sufficiently explain social practices and individual decision-making, including the seeming prioritisation of mobility over sustainability.

Ageing and migration in a global context :

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challenges for welfare states

Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti, Chris Phillipson

2021, Cham : Springer, 196 p.

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This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the 21st century. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges posed by the globalisation of the life course to welfare states’ old age and family policies. Through a variety of case studies, it covers a wide range of migration scenarios: those who migrate in later life; migrants from earlier years who age in place; and old people who hire migrant caregivers. It shows how both local and global economic inequalities intersect to frame interactions between ageing, migration, and family support. Across a wide variety of situations, it highlights that migration can both create risks for older people, but also serve as an answer to ageing-related social, economic, and health risks. The book explores tensions between national and global contexts in experiences of migration across the life course. As such this book offers a fascinating read to scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers in the fields of aging, migration, life course, and population health.

Ageism and democracy in Switzerland :

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What we can learn from the Covid-19 pandemic

Marion Repetti

Dans Ewert, Christian, Heyne, Lea, One Year with Covid-19 (4 p.). 2021, Switzerland : DemocracyNet

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Ageism and Democracy in Switzerland: What We Can Learn from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Book chapter

Repetti Marion

, One Year with Covid-19. 2021, Zürich : DemocracyNet

Conclusion

Book chapter

Chris Phillipson, Repetti Marion, Toni Calasanti

, Ageing and Migration in a Global Context: Challenges for Welfare States. 2021, Cham : Springer

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Summary:

The aim of this book has been to explore different aspects of the experiences and challenges that transnational migration involves for older people and their families. The different chapters have reviewed a range of themes, including: relationships between migrants and their older parents; older migrants as formal and informal carers or recipients; retirement migration; the lives of those ‘left behind’ by their children; and older migrants’ strategies for accessing health and long-term care. The variety of experiences covered itself reflects the acceleration in the pace of migration in the twenty-first century, the different motivations of migrants, and the assortment of groups involved. We have now moved into a radically altered context facing older people, migrants, as well as welfare states. In response, this chapter examines, first, the political context facing migrants; second, the impact of COVID-19; and, third, the development of a welfare policy for transnational migration and demographic change.

Retirement Migration: Resisting Ageist Expectations and Gendered Scripts

Book chapter

Toni Calasanti, Repetti Marion

, Ageing and Migration in a Global Context: Challenges for Welfare States. 2021, Cham : Springer

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Many policymakers, scholars, and members of the general public in Europe and the U.S. express concerns about the ‘burden’ that elders presumably will represent, a concern that can be exacerbated in the context of elders who migrate in retirement, drawing pensions from their home countries while living elsewhere. In this chapter, we present a framework for thinking about how social inequalities shape both dependence (and burden) in later life and in the migration context. We first discuss the concept of dependence, and how ageism (and other inequalities) shape who is considered to be a burden; what ‘counts’ as an economic contribution; and how retirement migration can be depicted as a problem. We then counter this view, based on an understanding of gender and age inequalities, and preliminary research that explores how these power relations influence retirement migration decisions and contributions of such migrants. Focusing on the most economically vulnerable elders, we argue that such migrants are neither dependent nor a burden. In fact, their migration is a strategy to contribute, keep from being a burden, and fight ageism. Further, because their contributions cross national borders, they are not visible within each individual welfare state.

In Search of a Good Life In and Out of Switzerland: Making Use of Migration in Old Age

Book chapter

Repetti Marion, Sarah Schilliger

Dans Repetti Marion, Toni Calasanti, Chris Phillipson, Ageing and Migration in a Global Context: Challenges for Welfare States. 2021, Cham : Springer

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Many Swiss households, dealing with care needs facing themselves in old age or older relatives, hire female migrant live-in care workers from Eastern European countries. At the same time, Swiss people are migrating to Southern European countries after their retirement, as a means of improving their socioeconomic security. Similar practices have been discussed in the Swiss and international literature. Some researchers have documented the global care market, its gendered dimension, and the precarious conditions in which these migrants — mainly women — work in the richer country. Literature about retirement migration sometimes indicates that such movement is motivated by the search for a better lifestyle or more economic security, something that reflects the economic privileges of the retirees from richer countries vis-à-vis populations of countries with cheaper costs of living. This chapter demonstrates how these two practices (relocating and hiring a migrant) are linked to a specific configuration of the welfare and care regime in Switzerland: one in which people’s well-being in old age mostly depends on their private resources, such as household income and social networks, and where public transfers are secondary. It also discusses how the use of migration in later life is shaped by global inequalities between countries and is stimulated by an expanding transnational market for care, housing and leisure services targeting ageing customers from richer countries.

Introduction

Book chapter

Repetti Marion, Toni Calasanti, Chris Phillipson

Dans Repetti Marion, Calasanti Toni, Phillipson Chris, Ageing and Migration in a Global Context: Challenges for Welfare States. 2021, Cham : Springer

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This book brings together two major trends influencing economy and society in the twenty-first century: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the twenty-first century. Virtually every country in the world is experiencing growth in the size and proportion of older people (defined as those 65 and over) in their population. There were 703 million persons in this age group in 2019, with this figure projected to more than double to over 1.5 billion by 2050 (United Nations 2019). International migration has emerged as another major development with, as Shah (2020: 10) notes, more people living outside their country of birth than at any time before. Recent decades have witnessed an acceleration in the pace of movement between countries: between 1990 and 2019, the number of people living in a country different from the one in which they were born rose from 153 million to 271 million, an increase of 77% (United Nations Organisation (UNO) 2019).

2020

Vieillir à l’étranger :

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Le cas des ressortissant·e·s suisses au Maroc et en Espagne

Marion Repetti, Claudio Bolzman

Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2020, vol. 46, issue 2, p. 199–217

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Experiences of the pandemic among marginal older people in Switzerland and the U.S.

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Fellay-Favre Elisa, Marion Repetti, Alexandre Santos Mella, Toni Calasanti

Ageing in Europe newsletter, 2020, special issue 28, summer

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In many countries, political authorities have instituted measures to contain COVID-19 and especially to protect so-called ‘vulnerable’ groups. These strategies target older people, based on the consideration that the risk of dying from COVID-19 is especially high for them. Our research aims to explore how people aged 65 and over experience these measures and the fact of being labelled as vulnerable. Based on fieldwork taking place in the Swiss Alps and in different regions of the U.S., it focuses in particular on older people who were already facing social and economic precarity prior to the pandemic, and whose daily lives are now also shaped by their belonging to an ‘at risk’ group in the context of the COVID-19.

Comment faire bénéficier les retraités des dividendes du patriarcat ? :

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débats scientifiques et solutions politiques (Suisse, 1946-1995)

Marion Repetti, Jean-Pierre Tabin

Nouvelles questions féministes, 2020, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 82-97

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La loi helvétique sur l’assurance vieillesse et survivants (AVS) entre en vigueur en 1948. Le nouveau temps de la retraite qu’elle institue nourrit de nombreuses discussions politiques et scientifiques quant aux conséquences de la fin de l’activité professionnelle des hommes. L’article se concentre sur les débats qui se déroulent en Suisse entre 1948 et 1995, que les auteur·e·s analysent à la lumière des travaux de Raewyn Connell sur les masculinités. Du fait de leur focalisation sur la place sociale des hommes après la retraite, ces débats ignorent presque totalement les épouses qui continuent à effectuer le travail domestique dans l’ombre de récits valorisant le vieillissement actif de leurs maris. Par ailleurs, ils ne portent qu’une attention limitée aux retraité·e·s n’appartenant pas aux classes privilégiées et dont les possibilités de répondre au modèle du vieillissement actif sont limitées.

Retirement migration and transnational grandparental support :

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a Spanish case study

Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti

Global networks, April 2020, volume 20, issue 2, . 308-324

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People who migrate in retirement often do so to join younger generations who have already migrated, and to help with grandchildren. But what about those retirees who migrate away from their families? Do they still provide grandparental support? To address this question, we examine retirement migrants who reside permanently in their new country, Spain. We find that they are aware of grandparental support expectations, and that their migration decision sometimes creates conflict with their offspring. At the same time, these retirement migrants reshape the meaning of grandparental support. Care considerations influence their destination and housing choices, and they continue to provide care. They feel that their familial relationships are now of a higher quality, despite the distance. At the same time, gender still emerges as a key dimension of grandparental support. The grandparenting of these retirement migrants challenges facile depictions of their motivations and of the equation of quantity and quality of contacts.

L’âgisme dans la lutte contre le coronavirus

Professional paper ArODES

Marion Repetti

REISO, Revue d'information sociale, Mis en ligne le 4 mai 2020

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Fin de carrière et vieillesse :

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deux facettes d’un même risque : Une analyse du cas suisse

Marion Repetti, Christopher Phillipson

Retraite et société, 2020, no 84, pp. 41-68

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En Suisse, les risques de fin de carrière et vieillesse sont généralement traités politiquement comme deux problématiques distinctes, l’une relevant des politiques de l’emploi, l’autre de celles de la vieillesse. Cette séparation résulte de la genèse de la politique vieillesse en Suisse. En établissant l’âge d’accès à la rente de vieillesse à 65 ans, les responsables politiques ont renoncé à couvrir le risque d’appauvrissement des travailleurs dits « âgés » mais qui n’ont pas encore atteint 65 ans. Pourtant, ces deux problématiques relèvent d’un même « risque vieillissement », soit le fait que le taux de chômage de longue durée augmente au-delà de 45 à 50 ans dans l’économie industrielle, de manière plus ou moins marquée en fonction du contexte économique. À partir de l’étude de la genèse de la politique vieillesse en Suisse, cet article met en lumière le processus de construction de la distinction entre les risques fin de carrière et les risques vieillesse, sur laquelle repose l’organisation de la protection sociale. Ses résultats interrogent l’idée selon laquelle le risque fin de carrière résulterait de l’inadéquation des compétences des travailleurs âgés au marché de l’emploi. Ils montrent au contraire le rôle que joue l’articulation entre l’organisation de la politique sociale et celle du marché de l’emploi dans la production de ce risque. Par cette mise en lumière, les auteurs souhaitent alimenter les réflexions quant à l’avenir de la protection sociale en repensant notamment les rapports entre risque pauvreté, marché de l’emploi et vieillissement.

Coupables d’être vieux?

Professional paper

Repetti Marion

REISO Revue d'information sociale, 2020

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L’âgisme dans la lutte contre le coronavirus

Professional paper

Repetti Marion

REISO Revue d'information sociale, 2020

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2019

Democratic Theory as Social Codification

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Christian Ewert, Marion Repetti

Journal of Democratic Theory, 2019, vol 2, no 6, p. 58-69

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What is democratic theory? In this article we treat it as a semiotic code – that is to say, a shared assumption – and argue that democratic theory enables people to think and talk about the idea(s) of democracy. Furthermore, the application of this specific code is highly political. For one, it is embedded in concrete contexts and discourses and used in arguments and narratives. In addition, the application of democratic theory has also substantial consequences on the lives of people. We illustrate this argument by reflecting briefly on Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” and its recodification and consequences in different contexts.

2018

Retirement Migration in Europe: A Choice for a Better Life?

Scientific paper

Repetti Marion, Chris Phillipson, Toni Calasanti

Sociological Research Online, 2018 , vol. 23, no 4, pp. 780-794

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This article examines the impact of economic inequalities on the individual choices that North European retirees make when they migrate to Mediterranean countries. It considers a group of retired and early-retired migrants who live permanently in Spain and have limited economic resources. Through a qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews with retirement migrants as well as ethnographic observations and spontaneous conversations in the study site, we provide new sociological knowledge about the relations between retirement migration and the unequal risks of social exclusion that retirees must manage in Northern Europe. We find that for many of these migrants, moving represents a way of managing economic risks in retirement, improving their financial situation and status. At the same time, however, it introduces new vulnerabilities. The latter are all the more visible when unexpected political changes occur, such as the recent decision that the UK would leave the European Union (Brexit).

La monnaie: moyen de redistribution sociale?

Professional paper

Repetti Marion, David Bieri, Simone Franzi, Luis Camacho

DeFacto, 2018

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Les bonnes figures de la vieillesse

Book

Repetti Marion

2018, Lausanne : Antipodes, 247 p.

Summary:

Cet ouvrage part du postulat que les débats portant sur l’avenir de la politique de la vieillesse sont révélateurs d’une lutte entre acteurs du champ de régulation sociale qui a pour objet l’imposition de catégories de pensées, soit la définition de ce qu’est un âgé aujourd’hui et de ce qu’il est moralement acceptable d’attendre de lui. Il montre comment cette question peut être comprise à l’aune de l’histoire du traitement social de la vieillesse, dont ce livre relate la genèse et les transformations.

Retirement Migration in Europe: A Choice for a Better Life

Scientific paper

Repetti Marion, Chris Phillipson, Toni Calasanti

Sociological Research Online, 2018 , vol. 23, no 4, pp. 780-794

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2017

Vivre sa retraite au soleil. Loin des nuages?

Professional paper

Repetti Marion

REISO Revue d'information sociale, 2017

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Cécile Campergue, Yannick Marec et Daniel Réguer (dir.), De l’hospice au domicile collectif. La vieillesse et ses prises en charge de la fin du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours (Review)

Scientific paper

Repetti Marion

Traverse, 2017 , vol. 2, pp. 1454-156

Swiss Retirees as Active Agers: A Critical Look at this New Social Role

Scientific paper

Toni Calasanti, Repetti Marion

Journal of Population Ageing, 2017 , vol. 11, no 1, pp. 23-41

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Similar to other countries in the European Union, contemporary Switzerland faces concerns about an ageing population, and the policy framework of active ageing is one response. Today’s retirees are asked to actively participate in society in ways that are recognized as social contributions. We argue, however, that the redefinition of the role of retiree to be an “active ager” rests upon gender inequalities, among others. As a result, this framework can reinforce the exploitation of elders, especially old women. To illustrate our argument, we draw on interviews conducted among Swiss retirees to demonstrate the ways that active ageing ignores that work in which they are engaged already, while it also rests upon and reshapes gender inequalities in later life.

Since I Retired, I Can Take Things as They Come. For Example, the Laundry”: Gender, Class, and Freedom in Retirement in Switzerland

Scientific paper

Repetti Marion, Toni Calasanti

Ageing and Society, 2017 , vol. 38, no 8, pp. 1556-1580

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Population ageing has led many countries to be concerned about the ‘economic burden’ of elders, and several have adopted the active ageing paradigm to reform policy. However, gender differences that moderate the effect of active ageing have been little considered. As in other nations in the European Union, Swiss federal authorities use the active ageing paradigm to reshape ageing policies, including the provision of incentives to seniors to remain in the labour market. At the same time, many recent and proposed changes draw on the assumption of gender equality, even though actual parity has not yet been demonstrated. We know little about how gender shapes retirement in Switzerland, other than in relation to financial inequality between women and men. Qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with Swiss retirees (N = 15) shows how men and women describe this time of life differently. All respondents characterised retirement as a time of freedom; but the meaning of such freedom diverged for men and women, reflecting the gender division of labour, which is further shaped by class. We discuss the implications of this difference for the gendered consequences of active ageing policies.

2016

Suivi du vieillissement en Suisse. L’apport des études qualitatives en gérontologie sociale

Professional paper

Repetti Marion

Bulletin de l’Académie suisse des sciences humaines et sociales, 2016 , vol. 11, pp. 64-65

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Mélissa Petit, Les retraités: cette richesse pour la France (Review)

Scientific paper

Repetti Marion

Retraite et Société, 2016 , vol. 2, no 74, pp. 221-224

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2015

Les stéréotypes entravent la recherche académique

Professional paper

Repetti Marion

Revue d’Information Sociale, 2015

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Du retraité méritant au senior actif: Genèse et actualité d’une figure sociale en Suisse

Scientific paper

Repetti Marion

Retraite et Société, 2015 , vol. 71, no 2, pp. 15-33

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Cet article s’intéresse aux discours produits par les autorités politiques helvétiques dans le contexte de la construction de l’assurance-vieillesse et survivants au début du XXe siècle ; en particulier, la manière dont ces discours ont donné sens à la catégorie administrative naissante de bénéficiaire de la rente de vieillesse. Ce sens a été construit par le recours à des normes morales référencées venant établir les traits d’une figure sociale de la vieillesse spécifique : celle du « retraité méritant ».
L’article s’interroge sur les raisons et les enjeux de l’effacement de cette figure au profit de celle d’un « senior actif » promue depuis la fin du XXe siècle comme un modèle valorisé de vieillissement. Il ne s’agit pas seulement d’un « nouveau paradigme de l’action publique » (Guillemard, 2013), mais également d’une manière de donner du sens aux réformes entreprises dans la politique de la vieillesse comme dans l’ensemble des politiques sociales.
Cette transformation implique un double phénomène. D’un côté, le vieillissement actif véhicule le rejet de la figure passive du retraité qui se retire de la société pour vivre ses dernières années dans l’attente de la mort. De l’autre, il traduit une remise en question de la norme morale de solidarité qui confère à l’individu vieillissant le droit inconditionnel au soutien des autres membres de la société durant les années où il n’est plus considéré comme apte à servir l’État par sa participation au marché du travail productif.

Regards de retraités sur le vieillissement actif

Scientific paper

Repetti Marion

Revue Suisse de Sociologie, 2015 , vol. 41, no 3, pp. 419-435

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2013

Réformes et conditionnalité de la retraite: conséquences de l’injonction au “vieillissement actif” sur la (re-)construction identitaire à la retraite

Scientific paper

Repetti Marion

Working Papers, Réseau de l’Association française de sociologie: protection sociale, politiques sociales et solidarités (RT6), 2013

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Dans cet article, nous nous proposons d’analyser l’émergence du ” vieillissement actif ” comme modèle identitaire et d’examiner comment les retraités se l’approprient dans le contexte actuel de remise en question de la légitimité de leur statut. Notre réflexion repose sur trois hypothèses. La première postule que le ” vieillissement actif ” se révèle un modèle identitaire qui s’ajoute aux ” registres sociaux de typification ” à la retraite. Il émerge à la fin du 20ème siècle sous forme d’injonction dont les retraités s’approprient aujourd’hui certaines dimensions dans le cadre de leur ” construction identitaire “. Notre deuxième hypothèse stipule que les retraités s’approprient ce modèle afin de lutter contre un phénomène de ” stigmatisation ” dont ils font l’objet en raison de leur statut. Il s’inscrit dans le contexte de société du travail où l’activité professionnelle constitue un vecteur essentiel de l’insertion sociale. Les retraités subissent un phénomène de mise en marge car ile ne sont pas perçus comme participant à l’effort productif commun. Cette stigmatisation est renforcée par la dévalorisation des traits physiques associés au vieillissement dans le contexte social contemporain. La troisième et dernière hypothèse que nous proposons de discuter dans cet article énonce qu’en fonction de leur statut socioéconomique, les retraités disposent de plus ou moins de moyens de s’approprier le modèle du ” vieillissement actif “. Bénéficiant de capitaux sociaux, économiques et culturels plus restreints que les autres, les plus démunis peinent à s’approprier le modèle du ” vieillissement actif ” et sentent par conséquent particulièrement exclus.

2011

Aide à une personne âgée à domicile

Professional paper

Repetti Marion, Anchisi Annick, Elisabeth Hirsch

Soins Infirmiers, 2011 , vol. 8, pp. 56-57

2023

What have we learned from the pandemic? :

Conference ArODES

a socio-technical case study on crisis management and its impact on work activities in a higher academic institution

Bozica Krsmanovic, Florian Bürki, Claude- Alexandre Fournier, Déborah Glassey-Previdoli, Serge Imboden, Line Pillet, Marion Repetti, Alexandre Santos Mella, Rafaël Weissbrodt

Proceedings of Organizational design and management conference

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The COVID-19 pandemic had a severe impact on educational institutions. This paper presents the results of a multidisciplinary case study conducted at a university of applied sciences in Switzerland. The study aimed to understand how the pandemic affected the activities of different professions, how staff perceived the measures taken by senior management, what good practices were developed and what elements should be improved following this period of instability. The study was based on a multi-method qualitative design, combining documentary research, chronicle workshops, and semi-structured interviews. The paper focuses on three findings. First, we present a story of how the institution dealt with the pandemic. For each chapter of this story, we list the typical problems faced by managers and staff. Second, we show how different professionals were affected by the crisis and what new skills and practices they have developed. Finally, we analyse the impact of the pandemic using a socio-technical approach. The analysis of the focus groups led to the identification of 7 chapters and 18 typical situations. The pandemic affected main professions of the institution in very different ways. Within a few weeks, teachers had to switch to online teaching. They developed new skills and experimented with new pedagogical approaches. Administrative staff struggled with teleworking, which had not been widely practised in these professions. They were also faced with additional responsibilities, particularly related to managing the sanitary measures. The pandemic gave some of them greater autonomy and responsibility, at least temporarily. The use of online meetings quickly became the norm and is still very common today. Cleaning and technical staff were heavily involved in implementing hygiene measures and disinfecting premises. They were very active even though the premises were often empty, leading them to question the purpose of this activity. Finally, managers had to take responsibility for the health and safety of staff and students, as well as the continuity of teaching and other priority activities, in a complex, tense and everchanging context. The sharing of experience and skills between managers in different parts of the institution proved crucial. Finally, local managers played an important role in supporting their teams and maintaining social ties. Future studies could explore some of these issues in more depth. It would also be useful to compare case studies, in order to identify regularities and better understand which factors are important for the resilience of an academic institution.

2022

Vieilles, où serons-nous ?

ArODES

Clothilde Palazzo-Crettol, Farinaz Fassa, Marion Repetti, Vanina Mozziconacci

Nouvelles Questions Féministes

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Achievements

PEOPLE@HES-SO Directory and Skills inventory

Repetti Marion

Professeur-e HES Ordinaire, Responsable de l'institut Travail social

Professeur-e HES Ordinaire, Responsable de l'institut Travail social

PEOPLE@HES-SO
Directory and Skills inventory