{"id":2373,"date":"2018-08-21T09:09:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T08:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2018-08-21T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T08:09:39","slug":"switzerland-a-multicultural-country-without-multicultural-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland : a multicultural country without multicultural policies ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Gianni D&#8217;Amato<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/e\/9781135270711\/chapters\/10.4324%2F9780203867549-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/e\/9781135270711\/chapters\/10.4324%2F9780203867549-11<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Para\">&#8220;As a small country located at the crossroads of Northern and Southern Europe, Switzerland is widely known for its neutrality and peaceful attitudes, its ethnic and linguistic diversity \u2013 German, French, Italian, and Reto-Romansch are all national languages \u2013 and a decentralized government that makes most laws at the canton (or state) level. But the nice picture of being a country privileged by Kantian \u2018eternal peace\u2019 is as correct as the supposition to be called the inventor of the Bavarian Black Forest time-piece. There is a good reason why control and integration policies \ufb01gure large in a federalist country that was challenged since its birth \u2013 in the aftermath of the successful liberal Revolution of 1848 \u2013 by centrifugal forces on the religious, regional, political, social, and ideological levels. Certain foreign scholars, puzzled by Switzerland\u2019s apparent enduring stability (and overlooking the history of violent and disruptive con\ufb02icts from the civil war of 1847 until the social unrest of the 1930s), detected the source of this solidity in the clever management of a multicultural country through its federal institutions (Schnapper 1997). Others see Switzerland as a \u2018paradigmatic case of political integration\u2019 as a result of the subsidiary structure of the Swiss state which supports both the strong municipal autonomy and the comparatively high participation rate of the constituency in the polity (Deutsch 1976). Other authors see the source of the country\u2019s stability in the successful creation of a strong national identity, which helped overcome the social distrust that arose during rapid industrialization, and which was based on the country\u2019s small size, and the idea that Switzerland was under permanent threat of strong neighbouring countries (\u2018\u00dcberfremdung\u2019) (Kohler 1994; Tanner 1998).&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Gianni D&#8217;Amato Source : https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/e\/9781135270711\/chapters\/10.4324%2F9780203867549-11 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":[131,32,9,421,87,17,387,36,180,205,94],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-131","tag-book-chapter","tag-english-language","tag-ethnic-diversity","tag-history","tag-immigrants","tag-integration-policy","tag-migration-policy","tag-multiculturalism","tag-national-identity","tag-political-system"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","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=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}