La Suisse coloniale

Minder, Patrick

doi:10.3726/978-3-0352-0063-8

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“…Additionally, given its neutral international position and important humanitarian tradition, Switzerland may tend to consider racism as an individual phenomenon (Cattacin et al, 2006;Lavanchy, 2014). However, as put forth by Minder (2011), Switzerland may have a 'colonial power without colonies'. Racist social structures, or at least a racialized collective imagination, did indeed exist throughout history in Switzerland.…”

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“…Racist social structures, or at least a racialized collective imagination, did indeed exist throughout history in Switzerland. This is apparent when analyzing several national fairs (Minder, 2011) and Swiss children's literature (Purtschert et al, 2012). However racialization continues to be an under-researched phenomenon in Europe (Goldberg, 2006) as in particular in Switzerland (Purtschert et al, 2012).…”

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Racialization in Switzerland: experiences of children of refugees from Kurdish, Tamil and Vietnamese backgrounds

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Chimienti

2019

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This article explores the various types of racism and racialization comparing the experiences of descendants of Kurdish, Tamil, and Vietnamese refugees in Switzerland. Drawing on qualitative data from 45 interviews, the article shows that children of refugees experience several forms of racialization, the impact of which varies. The article shows that children of refugees tend to deny or relativize the interpersonal racism they experience daily, whilst they name and reject forms of racialization that have an effect on their socioeconomic mobility as discrimination and racism. The paper argues that experiences of racialization explain why some adult children of refugees do not feel they 'fit in' despite their upwards socioeconomic mobility.

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Racialization in Switzerland: experiences of children of refugees from Kurdish, Tamil and Vietnamese backgrounds

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Chimienti

2019

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“…18 In 1896, for instance, the Swiss national exhibition of Geneva comprises a so-called 'Negro village' in front of a miniature 'Swiss village'; the advertisement of the former village announced a 'great attraction' with the title 'Black continent, Muslim and fetishist celebrations'. 19 Such a spatio-discursive setting contributed to the formation and stabilization of a racially objectifying gaze amongst the viewers. It traced a rigid border between the bodies and rites associated with racial difference against those associated with the 'Swiss nation'.…”

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