de.hypothesesFeb 10

Switzerland is often portrayed as a neutral and "raceless" society - but in reality, racism in Switzerland was simply invisible after 1945. Racial knowledge defined who was deemed assimilable and who was excluded, while the Swiss state ignored and eliminated racism from contemporary awareness and history, writes Nicolas Blumenthal 👇

https://migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179

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Challenging “Racelessness:” Debates and Restrictions on Immigration in Postwar Switzerland 

Discusses deportation practices in Switzerland since World War II

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Show threadMark R. StonemanJan 17, 2023
@postkulturwiss I haven't listened to it (yet?) but that reminds me of a post I edited for Lauren Stokes. In her case, the state was thinking men too, men from a perspective that ignored the reality of women. https://migrantknowledge.org/2022/03/29/the-migrant-woman-as-alibi-for-state-inaction/
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Knowledge about the 'Migrant Woman' as an Alibi for State Inaction in the Federal Republic of Germany - Migrant Knowledge

Experts argued cultural otherness impeded Turkish women's employment and "emancipation," ignoring practical obstacles they faced as women.

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