{"id":38762,"date":"2026-05-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38762"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:59:36","slug":"contester-lordre-migratoire-par-le-bas-une-histoire-du-statut-de-saisonnier%c2%b7ere-en-suisse-sous-langle-des-resistances-infrapolitiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38762","title":{"rendered":"Contester l\u2019ordre migratoire \u00ab\u00a0par le bas\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: une histoire du statut de saisonnier\u00b7\u00e8re en Suisse sous l\u2019angle des r\u00e9sistances infrapolitiques"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Author(s): Victor Santos Rodriguez <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Source: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7202\/1124899ar<\/a> <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Le pr\u00e9sent article pense la r\u00e9sistance aux cat\u00e9gories forg\u00e9es par le pouvoir pour gouverner la migration. Il se concentre sur une cat\u00e9gorie qui a fortement marqu\u00e9 le paysage migratoire europ\u00e9en de la seconde moiti\u00e9 du xxe<\/sup> si\u00e8cle : le statut de saisonnier\u00b7\u00e8re tel que con\u00e7u par l\u2019\u00c9tat suisse. Ce statut a \u00e9t\u00e9 la pierre angulaire du r\u00e9gime migratoire helv\u00e9tique durant les d\u00e9cennies cons\u00e9cutives \u00e0 la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Pour les autorit\u00e9s suisses soucieuses de combattre la \u00ab surpopulation \u00e9trang\u00e8re \u00bb (\u00ab \u00dcberfremdung<\/em> \u00bb), cette construction juridique singuli\u00e8rement coercitive avait ceci de fonctionnel qu\u2019elle facilitait l\u2019admission et la mise au travail d\u2019\u00e9tranger\u00b7\u00e8res dont l\u2019int\u00e9gration \u00e0 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 suisse \u00e9tait cependant entrav\u00e9e. Le statut de saisonnier\u00b7\u00e8re rendait leur migration pr\u00e9caire, profitable et r\u00e9versible. Si cette cat\u00e9gorie migratoire exer\u00e7ait un puissant contr\u00f4le disciplinaire sur les cat\u00e9goris\u00e9\u00b7es, l\u2019article se penche sur les expressions d\u2019un agir contestataire. En s\u2019appuyant sur les r\u00e9sultats pr\u00e9liminaires d\u2019une recherche fond\u00e9e notamment sur l\u2019histoire orale, l\u2019article plonge dans les coulisses de la migration des saisonnier\u00b7\u00e8res et met au jour la mani\u00e8re dont la r\u00e9sistance au statut a pris avant tout une forme \u00ab infrapolitique \u00bb au sens entendu par James Scott. L\u2019article montre comment les saisonnier\u00b7\u00e8res et leurs familles sont parvenu\u00b7es \u00e0 ouvrir des espaces de contestation souterraine o\u00f9 les deux fondations du statut \u2013 saisonnalit\u00e9 du s\u00e9jour et absence de famille \u2013 ont \u00e9t\u00e9 efficacement sap\u00e9es. L\u2019\u00e9tude de ces r\u00e9sistances invisibles \u00e0 l\u2019ordre migratoire r\u00e9v\u00e8le une (autre) histoire politique de la Suisse contemporaine dont les saisonnier\u00b7\u00e8res sont des acteur\u00b7trices incontournables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mots-cl\u00e9s :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • migration,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • saisonnalit\u00e9,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • regroupement familial,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • r\u00e9sistance,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • infrapolitique<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Contesting the Migration Order \u201cFrom Below\u201d: A History of the Seasonal Status in Switzerland from the Perspective of Infrapolitical Resistances<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Abstract<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    This article approaches the issue of resistance to categories of migration government. It focuses on a category that strongly marked the European migratory landscape in the second half of the 20th century: the seasonal worker status as conceived by the Swiss state. This status was the cornerstone of the Swiss migration regime in the decades following WWII. For Swiss authorities concerned with combatting \u201cforeign overpopulation\u201d (\u201c\u00dcberfremdung<\/em>\u201d), this particularly coercive legal construct was functional in that it facilitated the admission and exploitation of foreigners whose integration into Swiss society was nevertheless hampered. The seasonal status made their migration precarious, profitable and reversible. While this migration category exerted strong disciplinary control over the categorized, the article examines the expressions of contestation. Drawing on the preliminary results of research grounded in oral history, the article delves behind the scenes of seasonal workers\u2019 migration, revealing how resistance to their status took primarily an \u201cinfrapolitical\u201d form in the sense understood by James Scott. The article shows how seasonal workers and their families managed to open up spaces of underground dissent where the two foundations of the status\u2014seasonality of stay and absence of family\u2014were effectively undermined. The study of these invisible resistances to the migration order reveals (another) political history of contemporary Switzerland, in which seasonal workers are central actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Keywords:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • migration,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • seasonality,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • family reunification,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • resistance,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • infrapolitics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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