Introduction: The Sociology of Migration in Switzerland: Past, Present and Future

Chimienti, Milena; Bolzman, Claudio; Ruedin, Didier

doi:10.2478/sjs-2021-0004

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“…Based on this shift in perspective, ethnicities or ethnic groups cannot be characterized by a stable, identifiable, and delimitable culture (Groenemeyer 2003). Instead, they result from an interplay of social practices, cultural knowledge contexts, and power relations (Dahinden 2016;Chimienti et al 2021; on the reflexive turn in ethnicity-related research Reuter 2002 or Nieswand andDrotbohm 2014). In his sociological analysis, Max Weber (1980Weber ( [1921, 237) already started from an ethnic commonality [«Gemeinsamkeit»] instead of a natural community [«Gemeinschaft»] to define ethnicity -as a sense of kinship that is based on similarities of external habitus or customs (Weber's (1980(Weber's ( [1921, 237) or on differences of a believed common culture and associated characteristics, such as language, religion, ways of thinking and behaving, regional origin, customs, or traditions (cf.…”

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Introduction: Ethnicity and Public Service. How the State Deals with Ethnic Differences

Piñeiro

Wagner

2022

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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and the Nation-StateThe discipline of sociology has a long international tradition of both theoretical and empirical research on processes of ethnic differentiation and the manifold consequences that accompany them (see, for example, Weber 1980Weber [1921Du Bois 1995[1899; Barth 1969). However, it was not until the 1960s that the notion of ethnicity began to spread more widely in the sociological context and established itself as a fundamental concept. As late as the mid-1970s, Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan (1975, 1), in their classic reader, promoted "ethnicity" as "a new term" helping to understand what was meant by "black politics" or "to find a satisfactory place for the French-speaking element in an undivided Canada" (Glazer and Moynihan 1975, 2). The relevance of this new sociological category was high and equivalent to the classical category of social class. In the Anglo-Saxon world, the political demands for a "representative bureaucracy" (Kingsley 1944), which exposed the problems of the relationship between public administration and "ethnic groups or minorities", were also responsible for this increase in significance. One example was the context of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. 1 In German-language sociology, the concept of ethnicity has been gaining in importance since the 1980s, thus returning to a certain extent from the American debate, decades after Max Weber (1980 [1921], 237) had sharpened the concept to his famous sociological definition of an ethnic commonality belief [«ethnischen Gemeinsamkeitsglauben»]. As the ethnic community is increasingly discussed in social sciences towards the end of the 20 th century (Imhof 1997), the nexus of ethnicity and the state in its national (or 1In the meantime, many empirical studies have emerged that attribute an essential role to the representation of ethnocultural diversity in the provision of administrative services or the filling of public positions (see, among

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Introduction: Ethnicity and Public Service. How the State Deals with Ethnic Differences

Piñeiro

Wagner

2022

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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Sedentarist Metaphysics of Nation State: Ukrainian Roma as Refugees (2022)

Fiałkowska,

Bucholc

2024

Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias

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When National Origins Equal Socio-economic Background: The Effect of the Ethno-class Parental Background on the Education of Children Coming of Age in Switzerland

Guichard,

Chimienti,

Bolzman

et al. 2024

Int. Migration & Integration

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The educational outcomes of the descendants of migrants are important indicators of migrants’ incorporation into host societies and an indicator of intergenerational social im/mobility. This paper examines this relationship using data from a survey that follows a cohort of young adults, born between 1988 and 1997, who grew up in Switzerland. It looks at the relationship between the educational output of respondents and their parental migratory background, with the theoretical consideration that the family’s social capital is a starting point in the descendants’ trajectories. The paper is based on secondary data and exploratory cross-sectional quantitative analyses. The results highlight first a correspondence between migrant parents’ national origins and their socio-economic status—in other words, an ‘ethno-class’. Second, they show differences in educational outcomes between migrants’ descendants and native Swiss as well as between the migrants’ descendants themselves—which indicates a segmented incorporation process for both the first and the second generation, in confirmation of previous research. Third, results show that parental background and language region of residence are statistically significant in determining the level of education achieved by the migrants’ descendants, especially those with a low socio-economic status. Their social mobility is ‘limited’, and they remain mostly in vocational education. The paper concludes that the Swiss school system still fails to include the most unprivileged and that a glass ceiling remains for them.

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Introduction: The Sociology of Migration in Switzerland: Past, Present and Future

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

Introduction: Ethnicity and Public Service. How the State Deals with Ethnic Differences

Introduction: Ethnicity and Public Service. How the State Deals with Ethnic Differences

Sedentarist Metaphysics of Nation State: Ukrainian Roma as Refugees (2022)

When National Origins Equal Socio-economic Background: The Effect of the Ethno-class Parental Background on the Education of Children Coming of Age in Switzerland

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