{"id":20651,"date":"2020-10-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=20651"},"modified":"2020-10-26T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T07:00:00","slug":"how-does-race-matter-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=20651","title":{"rendered":"How does \u201crace\u201d matter in Switzerland ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Anne Lavanchy<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/libra.unine.ch\/handle\/123456789\/8302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/libra.unine.ch\/handle\/123456789\/8302<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"hlFld-Abstract\">\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\">&#8220;This essay explores the institutional production of \u201cdesirable nationals\u201d through administrative procedures of marriage and civil partnership in Switzerland. Borrowing from the field of critical race studies, it focuses on bureaucratic practices related to unions \u2013 marriages and civil partnerships \u2013 to analyse the tensions around the (re)production of an idealized \u201cSwissness\u201d. The argument presented herein has a dual purpose: on an epistemological and theoretical level, it first exposes why critical race studies offer an appropriate vantage point from which to analyze how Swiss society is structured by unspoken racialised categorizations. Its second purpose is to shed light on institutional technologies of protection of the national body in registry offices. With the development of bureaucratic technology aiming at tracking down \u201csham marriages\u201d, the work of registrars is increasingly about the selection of potential conationals. This piece shows how the rhetoric of good marriages\/civil partnerships is linked to narratives about \u201chomogamy\u201d and \u201cmixedness\u201d, framing racialised understandings of nationality.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Nationality, Critical race studies, Marriage &amp; civil partnerships, Institutions<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Anne Lavanchy Source : https:\/\/libra.unine.ch\/handle\/123456789\/8302 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":[167],"tags":[6,70,9,259,553,179,205,536,629,334,278,621,309],"class_list":["post-20651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethnicity-languages-religion-arts","tag-6","tag-citizenship","tag-english-language","tag-ethnicity","tag-intermarriage","tag-marriage","tag-national-identity","tag-partner-choice","tag-racialization","tag-racism","tag-social-class","tag-street-level-bureaucracy","tag-working-paper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20651","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=20651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}