1. Gender Innovation and Migration in Switzerland
- Author
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Falk, Francesca
- Subjects
Political science ,Europe—Politics and government ,Emigration and immigration ,Comparative politics ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration ,thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics - Abstract
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.
- Published
- 2019
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