Immigrants and Associations: Their Role in the Socio-Political Process of Immigrant Worker Integration in West Germany and Switzerland

Author(s) : Barbara E. Schmitter

Source : http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2545472

Abstract:

This paper presents an analysis of the way “secondary political rights” have been used in two of Europe’s foremost labor importing countries: West Germany and Switzerland. It focuses on structural possibilities that could provide avenues for participation to the migrants and on nonwork related organizational structures that can potentially provide important links between migrants and the larger sociopolitical structure of the host country that are absent from labor market and work related structures.