{"id":2029,"date":"2018-03-15T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T08:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2018-03-15T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T08:17:48","slug":"collective-assertion-strategies-of-immigrants-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=2029","title":{"rendered":"Collective assertion strategies of immigrants in switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Claudio Bolzman, Rosita Fibbi<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/026858091006003004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/026858091006003004<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\">\n<p>In this paper we focus on an often neglected dimension of immigration, the collective one. We explore two main forms of collective assertion of immigrants: (1) political mobilisation, which is no longer as dominant as it has been in the past; and (2) cultural mobilisation, which has become increasingly important over the last ten years. After the failure of a number of political initiatives at the national level, these new forms of assertion aim at the recognition of immigrants&#8217; groups at the local community level, which in the Swiss political system is a significant operational level that also has a wide symbolic resonance. We argue that these changes are due to the immigrants&#8217; experience of status inconsistency, which involves participation in the socio-economic field and exclusion from the political arena (expressed particularly in the lack of voting rights). This is a result of Swiss migration policy and the strucutre of political opportunities. Whenever a lack of socio-economic or political rights is increasingly unacceptable to the groups concerned, it seems likely that forms of social mobilisation appear. Two factors have produced this decreased legitimacy of the immigrants&#8217; status: (a) the prolonged residence in the host society, which should normally result in the progressive acquisition of a better socio-economic status and greater social rights; (b) the strengthening and expansion of the European Community &#8211; where most of the immigrants come from &#8211; reinforcing their symbolic and political resources in the negotiation of their status in the host country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Claudio Bolzman, Rosita Fibbi Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/026858091006003004 Abstract:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[532,7,119,307,151,9,17,123,94,91,279,72],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-532","tag-article","tag-associations","tag-civil-and-political-rights","tag-cultural-identity","tag-english-language","tag-immigrants","tag-political-participation","tag-political-system","tag-social-integration","tag-socioeconomic-factors","tag-voting-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}