{"id":2393,"date":"2018-09-14T21:38:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T20:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2018-09-14T21:38:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T20:38:49","slug":"mattmark-30-august-1965-a-catastrophe-that-changed-switzerlands-perception-of-italian-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=2393","title":{"rendered":"Mattmark, 30 August 1965: A catastrophe that changed Switzerland&#8217;s perception of Italian migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Toni Ricciardi<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/archive-ouverte.unige.ch\/unige:91827\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/archive-ouverte.unige.ch\/unige:91827<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<section id=\"Abs1\" class=\"Abstract\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;The Mattmark tragedy of August 30th, 1965 fuelled the debate in Switzerland, which had already been going on for a few years, regarding the country&#8217;s largely un\u00ad controlled economic development. This development required ever more foreign labour \u2013 especially for big infrastructural projects \u2013 including low\u00adskilled labour, which had been abandoned by the Swiss. For the Italian community in Switzerland, the tragedy represented an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of their presence in a country in which they were not accepted and were not well integrated. Using the Mattmark tragedy as a case study, this paper demonstrates how the identitar\u00ad ian construction of Switzerland as a whole, and its relationship with foreigners, is strongly linked to the identitarian construction of the Canton of Valais, where the tragedy occurred. Mattmark represents a major turning point in Switzerland&#8217;s long and tormented relationship with foreigners: it changed Switzerland&#8217;s perception of foreigners and of the Swiss themselves and resulted in significant social, media\u00ad related and political changes, especially regarding the subject of safety at work.&#8221;<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Toni Ricciardi Source : https:\/\/archive-ouverte.unige.ch\/unige:91827 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":[35],"tags":[14,7,8,151,9,28,17,175,100,519,91,279,369,158],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-14","tag-article","tag-case-study","tag-cultural-identity","tag-english-language","tag-foreigners","tag-immigrants","tag-italians","tag-labour-migration","tag-low-skilled-immigrants","tag-social-integration","tag-socioeconomic-factors","tag-valais","tag-working-conditions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","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=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}