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Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées (RESOP)

The Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées (RESOP) is a multidisciplinary research center within the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). The main objective of the RESOP is to strengthen the research in social science and the interdisciplinary formation. Researchers working at the RESOP come from different but related disciplines such as political science, sociology, political economy, social psychology, and philosophy.

Its main domains of competence are: the analysis and evaluation of public policies; the analysis of reforms in the public sector; the study of processes of social exclusion, integration, and insertion; and the study of social movements and collective action. The RESOP has successfully carried a number of projects on behalf of both public and private institutions.

Special attention is given to applied research, with the aim to contribute to offer policy-makers and practitioners a basis for the resolution of social and political problems. Among the current research foci are: public health, public education, immigration and asylum policies, unemployment and the labor market. Research considers both case studies and co-operative frameworks, as well as all levels of government (local, national, supranational).

Marco Giugni will be the principal investigator for the Swiss team. He is a researcher at the RESOP (of which he is the Director) and a lecturer at the Department of political science at the University of Geneva. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) in 1993. He has also taught at the University of Trento (Italy), the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva (Switzerland). His research interests include: social movements and collective action, immigration and ethnic relations, unemployment and social exclusion.  

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Jasmine Lorenzini is research assistant for the Swiss team in the Younex project. She graduated from the University of Lausanne in 2008 in Political Science. For her dissertation she worked on Women's political involvement within local executive offices in Switzerland. Her main domains of research interests are citizenship, political participation, gender relations, structures of power and labor market regulations.

Amanda Gavilanes is research assistant for the Swiss team. She graduated from the University of Geneva in 2007 in Political Science. She's currently doing a Master's degree in Gender Studies at the University of Geneva. Her main domains of interests are political participation, militarism in a gender perspective, unemployment, social movements and citizenship.