Governing through relationships No 36, 2023/2 - pagesPages 7 to 30Introduction: Governing through relationships By Linda Haapajärvi, Olivia Vieujean, Flávio Eiró, Anick VolleberghPages 31 to 65The state at work through the personal. Relational governance in Europe: Techniques and ambivalenceBy Anick Vollebergh, Anouk de Koning, Milena MarchesiPages 67 to 88Making do with the community center. The participation tactics of immigrant women in the underprivileged areas of Paris and HelsinkiBy Linda HaapajärviPages 89 to 115“Drawing on your own life in your work.” Gender proximity and facilitation work in an immigrant women’s associationBy Violette ArnouletPages 117 to 140Citizens to reconnect? Digital inclusion and the state’s re-engagement in rural worldsBy Chloé DevezPages 141 to 163Integration through “soft skills.” A “social start-up” to support refugees’ integration into the labor marketBy Ulysse BicalPages 165 to 191“Realistic” social work: How not-for-profit “operators” temper expectations of the French StateBy Tessa BonduellePages 193 to 218From the yellow vests to the Citizens’ Assembly of Commercy (France): The political and constitutional stakes of an experiment in communalist direct democracyBy Sixtine Van Outryve