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The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe, but few studies have focused on delinquency and victimization among them. This article presents the results of exploratory research on the victimization and delinquency of young Romanian Roma in two cities in the French-speaking region of Switzerland. The study follows a mixed approach that combined 130 hours of participant observation with a self-reported delinquency and victimization survey (N=27). The findings show that the most common instances of victimization involve domestic violence, thefts, and verbal assaults related to begging, while the most common offences committed are brawls and domestic violence, which is frequently bidirectional. There is a correlation between crime and victimization, although the range of victimization suffered is larger than that of offences committed. Victims rarely report incidences of victimization to the authorities, even though their perception of the Swiss police is relatively positive. Despite the small sample and the biases related to this kind of research, this work calls attention to several new elements, such as the role of social media in delinquency, the bidirectionality of intimate partner violence, and the low rate at which victimization is reported to the police. It also suggests relevant subjects for future research.

Keywords: Roms, victimisation, délinquance, prévalence vie, reportabilité, Suisse, Roma, victimization, delinquency, life prevalence, reportability, Switzerland, Gitanos rumanos, victimización, delincuencia, prevalencia vida, reportabilidad, Suiza

AbstractThe present article addresses a new subject of concern: the impact of their families on victims, either by rendering them vulnerable to human trafficking, or by constituting an obstacle to the victim's attempts to escape the traffickers, once caught in their net. When a woman or child are trafficked, their family situation is of prime importance as far as protection is concerned. Whether these victims fear for their families, or whether they are afraid that they will continue to be exploited by them, it is still essential that family-related problems should be taken into account and provide new avenues for research.

Children from poor families often do not go to school and work as wage labourers instead. This perpetuates their poverty status. How does one break this vicious circle? This article discusses different options that the international community can consider and the shortcomings of some of the policies that it has been pursuing. The article argues that carrots are more likely to work than sticks, and one has to look at other areas such as the availability of credits in order for educational policies to be more effective.

Keywords: Traductologie, littérature belge francophone, portrait de traducteurs et traductrices, erreurs de traduction, traduction féministe, corps, prostitution

The representation of women through a social construction of gender is at the heart of feminism. But which feminism are we talking about, defined through which ideological struggles? The contradictions of the critique of each of the four waves of feminism are carried by many ideological currents (liberal, radical, differentialist, intersectional, neoliberal) that differently put into perspective the transformation of women’s place in society. Have we witnessed an evolution from one wave to the next, forming the continuity of the same movement, or a variety of ideologies opposing each other? Any conception of the relationship to gender requires to be crossed with other perspectives to understand the conditions of its mutation. Have the current confusion between sex and gender, as well as the invalidation of the biological binarity of the sexes reached limits beyond which women, by losing their public visibility, would no longer be recognized as such?

Keywords: feminismo, feminism, féminisme, luttes idéologiques, luchas ideológicas, ideological struggles, contradicciones, contradictions, contradictions, invisibilidad, invisibilité, invisibility, droits des femmes, women’s rights, derechos de las mujeres

Early modern Florentines depicted their taverns as wonderful and raucous places that were central to masculine sociability and a threat to female chastity. Many modern historians have followed this lead, presenting the history of Florentine taverns as a study of contemporary sociability and morality. In contrast to the male-centric tavern, this study explores sixteenth-century Florentine taverns as places of work employing many women in a variety of roles. Focusing on workscapes problematizes occupational gendering and considers how taverns involved the tavern keeper’s household and neighbours. Using guild, census, and judicial records, this study explores the spaces that some female tavern keepers, procuresses, and sex workers shared in an effort to reveal women’s work in a professional space previously considered to be exclusively male-dominated.

Keywords: Florence, Guilds, Sex Work, Taverns, Women, Work

Keywords: maison Henry-Stuart

What is it that one sees at night, in 1831, atop a high tower rising from the heart of Paris? Alfred de Vigny’s poetic answer to this is fascinating: ridges, angles, rims, summits, needles, lit fires, lightning, but also shadows, vague shapes, wide chasms… Fine lines and large ensembles are opposed and combined to make the city into a compass of titanic proportions, directing the onward march of a world that has lost its sense of direction, yet is going ever faster. This article attempts to shed some light into the fray.

Keywords: Résilience, Symptômes, Facteurs de risque, Facteurs de protection, Adolescents, Autochtone, Agression sexuelle, Estime de soi, Soutien communautaire, Soutien familial

This paper represents the need for First Nations community workers to share their narratives of experience and wisdom for academic review. A growing number of mature Indigenous social service workers are returning to Canada’s learning centers where they are articulating observations and insights to Indigenous experience in colonial Canada. It is imperative that post-colonial academic literature include these contributions. True reconciliation between Canada and First Peoples is only possible if those stories of resilience are reflected back from the experience of historic trauma and unresolved intergenerational suffering.