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From conflict to accommodation: the ‘Foreigners Question’ in Switzerland
Author(s) -
HEISLER BARBARA SCHMITI'ER
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1988.tb00175.x
Subject(s) - accommodation , immigration , politics , intervention (counseling) , demographic economics , government (linguistics) , population , economic interventionism , political science , development economics , political economy , sociology , demography , economics , law , psychology , neuroscience , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy
. There have been three major periods of post‐war migration to Switzerland. First the classic system of guestworker recruitment which lasted from 1948–1960. Second a period of political controversy from 1961–1978 concerned with ‘overforeignisation’ which brought about increased government intervention accompanied by a slight reduction in the foreign population. Recently Swiss labour recruitment has switched from yearly guestworker recruitment to seasonal workers and border commuters. This has lasted from 1979 to the present. Despite the fact that Switzerland has done very little to assist the integration of the immigrant population, they appear comparatively well integrated and surprisingly satisfied.