Der Migrations-Integrations-Komplex

The question of how immigration should be organised is still controversial today. The starting point of the book is the ‘discovery’ of unplanned immigration in the course of Western European foreign employment in the 196s. Since then, a complex of actors, institutions and discourses has gradually emerged that revolves around the concepts of migration and integration and has increasingly moved from the margins to the centre of social debates.

Kijan Espahangizi reconstructs the astonishing rise of the two terms using Switzerland as a case study and follows them into the depths of social practice: to the churches, aid organisations, trade unions, media, state authorities, political parties, foreigners' organisations and social movements.