Maxime Felder is a sociologist working at the intersection of urban sociology, migration studies, and the sociology of social relations and networks. His research focuses on understanding how newly arrived, low-resource migrants navigate life in expensive and highly regulated Western European cities.
Adopting a relational approach, he explores the ambiguous role of 'arrival infrastructures', investigating how newcomers compose a milieu that allows them not only to meet their basic needs but also to pursue more or less coherent life plans.
A central concern in his work is the issue of housing. He analyzes 'subaltern housing policies': the ways in which Western European societies have historically addressed (or failed to address) the housing needs of low-skilled migrant workers.
Another key focus is on practices of hospitality and reciprocity within migrant networks. Seeking to move beyond the binary of positive versus negative social capital, he examines how relationships between vulnerable newcomers and the more established migrants hosting them can be both supportive and exploitative.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 5106 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1056-9255 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximefelder/ | |
| Researcher ID | N-2748-2019 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maxime-Felder?ev=hdr_xprf |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
University, Lausanne, Switzerland
Scientist -
Geneva Graduate Institute - Global Migration Center
University, Geneva, Switzerland
Senior Fellow
Research
Beyond support or exploitation: inequality and reciprocity in informal housing arrangements between newcomers and their migrant hosts
| Authors | Maxime Felder |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social Workers and Irregular Migrants in the Assistance Circuit: Making Sense of Paradoxical Inclusion
| Authors | Maxime Felder, Maxime Felder, Sahar Fneich, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Social Inclusion |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Faire du sur-place sans jamais pouvoir prendre place : l’interminable arrivée de jeunes maghrébins sans-papiers à Genève
| Authors | Sahar Fneich, Maxime Felder, Joan Stavo-Debauge |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Revue européenne des migrations internationales | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Small, M. L.Someone To Talk To. 2017. Oxford University Press. 288 pp. £22.99 (Hardback)
| Authors | Maxime Felder |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | The British Journal of Sociology |
SusanneWessendorf2014: Commonplace Diversity: Social Relations in a Super‐diverse Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
| Authors | Maxime Felder |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research |
Ethnography of a political ritual: speeches given to new Swiss citizens by representatives of the state
| Authors | Laurence Ossipow, Maxime Felder |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Citizenship Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
Suggested Research
Between Hospitality and Inhospitality: The Janus-Faced 'Arrival Infrastructure'
| Authors | Maxime Felder, Joan Stavo-Debauge, Luca Pattaroni, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Urban Planning | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |