{"id":2947,"date":"2019-09-02T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2019-09-02T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T07:00:15","slug":"from-cultural-distance-to-skills-deficits-expatriates-migrants-and-swiss-integration-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=2947","title":{"rendered":"From cultural distance to skills deficits: \u201cExpatriates,\u201d \u201cMigrants\u201d and Swiss integration policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Shirley Yeung<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/multi-2015-0074\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/multi-2015-0074<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&#8220;This article examines two social categories brought into being by recent migration policies in Switzerland: the expatriate (or \u201cexpat\u201d) and the migrant. Treating these categories as relationally constituted, the article explores how this distinction was constructed and managed in response to processes of European harmonization in the 1990s, employing shifting discourses of difference: while Switzerland\u2019s Three Circle immigration model differentiated immigrants along lines of \u201ccultural distance\u201d vis-\u00e0-vis Switzerland, Swiss participation in the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons contrasted these groups according to a new discourse of \u201cskills.\u201d Focusing on this discursive transition, the article argues that the expatriate-migrant distinction constructs differently valued immigrants whose contrasting relationship to the nation and \u201cintegration\u201d is enacted in legal and social expectations surrounding language use. The article argues for critical attention to how \u201cbrain gain\u201d and skills discourses enable, and extend border-maintaining discourses of \u201cculture.\u201d&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleBody_keywords\"><span class=\"label\"><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: <\/span>integration policy; Switzerland; Three Circle Model; linguistic integration; migrants; expatriates<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Shirley Yeung Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/multi-2015-0074 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":[14,7,57,151,152,9,107,87,387,65,122,36,372,264,278,91,68],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethnicity-languages-religion-arts","tag-14","tag-article","tag-comparative-analysis","tag-cultural-identity","tag-discourse","tag-english-language","tag-freedom-of-movement","tag-history","tag-integration-policy","tag-language","tag-migrants","tag-migration-policy","tag-multilingualism","tag-skills","tag-social-class","tag-social-integration","tag-sociolinguistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","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=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}