{"id":37545,"date":"2025-05-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=37545"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:00:00","slug":"integration-without-immigrant-policy-the-case-of-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=37545","title":{"rendered":"Integration without Immigrant Policy: The Case of Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author(s) : Hans Mahnig, Andreas Wimmer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/libra.unine.ch\/handle\/123456789\/16185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/libra.unine.ch\/handle\/123456789\/16185<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;In a famous lecture at the University of Zurich in the 1970s Karl Deutsch presented Switzerland as a \u201dparadigmatic case of political integration\u201d: according to him, Switzerland, in spite of being a multicultural society divided by cleavages of religion, language, class and ideology, had become one of the most stable countries on the European continent. Deutsch identified two historical factors as the main reasons for this paradox: first, the Swiss peasantry\u2019s resistance to the building up of a feudal State from the 10th to the 12 th century, which led to a strong municipal autonomy; secondly, a comparatively strong popular participation during the industrialisation process \u2013 the percentage of citizens with the right to vote being in Switzerland during the 18th and 19th centuries higher than in its neighbouring countries (Deutsch 1976). Other scholars puzzled by Switzerland\u2019s stability insisted however on different explanations: for example on the fact that the multicultural character of the country is recognised through its federal institutions (Schnapper 1997, 146) or on how the conflicts between different parts of society have become accommodated through proportional representation in political institutions and through the search of compromise (Steiner 1974, Linder 1999, 359-369), often called consociational or consensus democracy (Lijphart 1977); last but not least, certain observers see in the idea of forming a community of destiny \u2013 nourished by the Swiss citizens\u2019 feeling that they were threatened as members of a small country by the larger neighbouring nation-states \u2013 an important explanation of the country\u2019s stability (Kriesi 1995, 15-17).&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Hans Mahnig, Andreas Wimmer Source : https:\/\/libra.unine.ch\/handle\/123456789\/16185 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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[425,70,57,9,87,36,180,123,94,103,249,716,72,309],"class_list":["post-37545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-425","tag-citizenship","tag-comparative-analysis","tag-english-language","tag-history","tag-migration-policy","tag-multiculturalism","tag-political-participation","tag-political-system","tag-refugees","tag-report","tag-sfm","tag-voting-rights","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\/37545","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=37545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}