<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article presents the empirical findings of a multi-site ethnography in two organizations in Swiss street-level bureaucracy. We examined both a municipal child welfare office and the police force of a medium-sized city. The focus was on the question as to whether and how ethnic differentiation takes place in such public agencies and what role it plays at work. The findings suggest that un/doing ethnicity follows an instrumental logic and that it is executed in manifold and ambivalent ways.</p></abstract>

The article presents the empirical findings of a multi-site ethnography in two organizations in Swiss street-level bureaucracy. We examined both a municipal child welfare office and the police force of a medium-sized city. The focus was on the question as to whether and how ethnic differentiation takes place in such public agencies and what role it plays at work. The findings suggest that un/doing ethnicity follows an instrumental logic and that it is executed in manifold and ambivalent ways.

Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic Perspective

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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The article presents the empirical findings of a multi-site ethnography in two organizations in Swiss street-level bureaucracy. We examined both a municipal...

Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic Perspective

Published Online: Apr 07, 2019

Page range: 35 - 55

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2019-0003

Keywords
un/doing ethnicity, street-level bureaucracy, multi-sited ethnography, police force, child welfare office

© 2019 Esteban Piñeiro et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic Perspective

Published Online: Apr 07, 2019

Page range: 35 - 55

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2019-0003

Keywordsun/doing ethnicity, street-level bureaucracy, multi-sited ethnography, police force, child welfare office

© 2019 Esteban Piñeiro et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
un/doing ethnicity, street-level bureaucracy, multi-sited ethnography, police force, child welfare office