Gender Innovation and Migration in Switzerland

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-01625-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 263 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Migration History

This open access book analyses migration and its relation to socio-political transformation in Switzerland. It addresses how migration has made new forms of life possible and shows how this process generated gender innovation in different fields: the changing division of work, the establishment of a nursery infrastructure, access to higher education for women, and the struggle for female suffrage. Seeing society through the lens of migration alters the perspective from which our past and thus our present is told—and our future imagined.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falk, Francesca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 IntroductionSwitzerland as a straggler in relation to gender equalityAn exploratory interview“As if I had made a journey back in time”Cooking and sewing courses for girls, geometry for boysUnequal opportunities at schoolBring to the fore not only personal, but also structural conditions
Chapter 2 Conceptual clarificationsGender innovationThe intersection of discrimination and privileges and new reconfigurationsA ‘migrantisation’ of the pastThe relationship between spatial and social changeMigration and mobilityA unified analysis of migration
Chapter 3 Changing gendered divisions of workNurses from KeralaA sedentary bias in the history of emigrationColonial constellations
Chapter 4 NurseriesThe first nurseriesThe so-called boom yearsThere is never a single storyMigration and the development of nurseriesThe normalising effect of an infrastructureThe current situationMale staff members with a so-called ‘migrant background’
Chapter 5 Higher educationSwitzerland as a pioneer - and what lies behind itThe oft-omitted impact of these ‘foreign’ studentsFeminist forerunners are not unequivocal heroines of historyThe first female full professor in Switzerland – born in the Russian empireThe first extraordinara in Romandie – born in the Russian empireThe first extraordinara in German-speaking Switzerland – again born in...
Chapter 6 Female suffrageFemale suffrage in Switzerland and its relation to migrationThe first formal association promoting political and legal equality for womenMigrating political strategiesThe last stragglersAn indirect experience of migrationNot downplaying the effects of racismWomen's right to vote in cultural memoryUnseen democratic deficits in the supposed heartland of democracy“A new Swiss export article: instruction in democracy”1929: Fighting women in Nigeria and SwitzerlandChapter 7 Conclusion: An awareness of alternativesEqual rights presented as being endangered by migrationMigration and the creation of new ideas and practicesChanging the perspective under which our past is told and our future imagined

Über Autor(innen)

Francesca Falk is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.