UNIA work – Baracken, Fremdenhass und versteckte Kinder

It wasn't that long ago. It was only fifty or sixty years ago that those Italian workers who built our roads, the Gotthard or worked in hotels came to Switzerland. As seasonal workers. Under the Saisonnierstatut. It regulated immigration to Switzerland before the introduction of the free movement of persons 2002. As a foreign police regime.

This brochure aims to shed light on this dark chapter in Swiss history.