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The ‘Sociologic’ of Postmigration: A Study in the Early History of Social Research on Migration and Integration in Switzerland, 1960–73

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Switzerland and Migration

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The paper provides a study in the early history of social research on migration and integration with a focus on Switzerland in the 1960 and 1970s. It takes a closer look at two landmark studies of German-speaking migration scholars in order to reconstruct the emergence of a new ‘sociologic’ of immigration and integration that shaped not only the knowledge production but also the practices of civil and governmental actors and institutions in Switzerland in the 1960s and 1970s. The intellectual pathways of Rudolf Braun and Hans-Joachim Hoffmann-Nowotny show that Swiss social research on immigration forms part of an international landscape of migration studies emerging within the postwar world order. The case study develops a new angle on the historical genealogy of ‘postmigrant societies’ like Switzerland.

I would like to thank the editors, the reviewers, Simone Lässig, Jakob Tanner, Rohit Jain, Todd Shepard, Bernhard C. Schär, Philipp Eigenmann, Esteban Piñeiro, Konrad Kuhn, Jonathan Pärli, Yann Stricker, Bryan Hart, and the participants of the research colloquium of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, the seminar for cultural and science studies at the University of Lucerne and the Freiburger Forum für Zeitgeschichte for their critical remarks. Translations by Jill Denton.

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Espahangizi, K. (2019). The ‘Sociologic’ of Postmigration: A Study in the Early History of Social Research on Migration and Integration in Switzerland, 1960–73. In: Lüthi, B., Skenderovic, D. (eds) Switzerland and Migration. Palgrave Studies in Migration History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94247-6_2

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