silvia.buechi[at]unibas.ch<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MA in Anthropology, Romance Linguistics and History at the University of Zurich. Co-director of a cantonal refugee service in Switzerland (1996-2000).
\nGraduate School in Gender Studies at the University of Berne (2002-2005)
\nPhD student in Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute of Basel: \u2018Staying healthy in migration. Health experiences, health promotion and prevention in Switzerland in the context of transnational migration\u2019.
\nSince 2007 collaborator in evaluations in the field of education and integration and since 2011 lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) in continuing education on Migration, Health, Illness, and Disability
\nFrom 2008 \u2013 2011 researcher at Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd in projects on privat persons’ daily usage of information and communication technologies and in 2012 deputy integration officer in a Swiss town.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Interests<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Transnational migration and health; vulnerability and resilience; gender; disability; usage of ICT<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Area(s)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

West Africa (Burkina Faso); Europe (France, Switzerland)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Publications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Monographs and Edited Volumes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

1997. (with Christian Erni, Luzia Jurt, Christoph R\u00fcegg) \u2018Indigenous Peoples, Environment and Development\u2019. International Workgroup for Indigenous Affairs and Department of Social Anthropology of Zurich. IWGIA-Document No. 85.<\/span><\/p>\n

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2008. (with Brigit Obrist) \u2018Stress as an idiom for resilience: health and migration among Sub-Saharan Africans in Switzerland\u2019. In: Anthropology & Medicine, 15:3: 251-261.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. \u2018Religion, eine Gesundheitsressource in der Migration?\u2019 In: Schweizerische Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Religions- und Kulturgeschichte 102 (2008): 261-286.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapters in Edited Books<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2013 in press. (with Martina Koch) \u2018Stress mit der Gesundheit. Gesundsein in der Migration zwischen gesellschaftlich verlangter und verunm\u00f6glichter Gesundheit\u2019. In: Passagen (Hrsg.): Vielf\u00e4ltig allt\u00e4glich: Migration und Geschlecht in der Schweiz. Z\u00fcrich: Seismo.<\/span><\/p>\n

2006. (with Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk) \u2018Gesundsein in der Migration\u2019. In: Forschung Migration und Gesundheit. Im Rahmen der Bundesstrategie \u2018Migration und Gesundheit 2002 \u2013 2007\u2019. Bern: Bundesamt f\u00fcr Gesundheit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2006. (with Brigit Obrist) \u2018Gesundsein in der Migration\u2019. Forschungs-Schlussbericht zuhanden des Bundesamtes f\u00fcr Gesundheit. Projekt 03.001545\/2.24.02-232.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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