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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | 2006

What To Do After Retirement? Elderly Migrants and the Question of Return

Claudio Bolzman; Rosita Fibbi; Marie Vial

This paper analyses in general terms the ‘return question’ or, to be more precise, the intentions of older Italian and Spanish migrants living in Switzerland as to their place of residence after retirement, and the criteria governing their decision. Survey data reveal that the majority of respondents either planned to stay in Switzerland, or to live part of the year in Switzerland and part of the year in their home country; the return option was less popular. The literature on migration has already pointed to the existence of the ‘third option’, namely dividing the residence between two countries. In particular, studies on northern European retirees in southern European areas have shown evidence of this form of living arrangement. But the extent of the phenomenon among former guestworkers who came from southern countries to a northern country seems surprising. Moreover, this option, a manifestation of the ‘circulation of migrants’, is adopted as a project not only by people of high but also low socio-economic status. This option is popular because it is related to the development through time of a way of life defined by dual preference, namely to maintain cultural, symbolic, concrete and affective ties with both countries.


Ageing & Society | 2004

Older labour migrants' well being in Europe: the case of Switzerland

Claudio Bolzman; Raffaella Poncioni-Derigo; Marie Vial; Rosita Fibbi

This paper examines several aspects of the social situation of the older immigrant population in Switzerland. It reviews their demographic history and characteristics and provides profiles of their health and well being, their material standard of life and access to social security and related benefits. It reports selected findings from an original survey of older Italian and Spanish citizens who are resident in the country, which show relatively high rates of disadvantage and poverty. The determination of a large proportion of the immigrant population to remain in Switzerland after they have ceased work demonstrates that the minorities who entered the country as labour migrants will become a permanent element of the Swiss population and its society. Neither the politicians nor the general public in Switzerland have yet accepted the reality of this new diversity. Given the continuation and indeed growth of international labour migration, the paper concludes by discussing the social policy and attitudinal options that face the governments and the population of Switzerland and many other European countries.


Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | 2007

Naturalisation and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Youth of Immigrant Descent in Switzerland

Rosita Fibbi; Mathias Lerch; Philippe Wanner

Many studies on the generational social mobility of immigrant populations have taken into account the socio-economic characteristics of the immigrant groups on the one hand, and the historical and economic conditions of the receiving society, including the legal framework, on the other. However, little attention has so far been paid to the juridical status of immigrant groups. This paper explores the variation in education and employment performance of young people from different immigrant origins (Italians, Portuguese, Turks, Croats, Kosovars and Serbs) and of different citizenship statuses—naturalised, non-naturalised, and Swiss-by-birth. Inter-ethnic group variations become much more muted when social origin and length of stay are controlled for; however, they do not disappear altogether. Naturalised immigrant youth perform best; indeed in many cases, where they are Swiss-born, they out-perform native Swiss. This performance, however, is overlooked by Swiss society because the acquisition of Swiss citizenship makes it statistically invisible.


Archive | 2005

Bildungsprozesse und berufliche Integration der „Zweiten Generation“. Die Rolle der intergenerationellen Beziehungen

Claudio Bolzman; Rosita Fibbi; Marie Vial

Im Gegensatz zu einer weit verbreiteten Meinung ist Migration nicht eine rein individuelle Angelegenheit. Der Entscheid, in ein anderes Land auszuwandern, wird nicht in erster Linie von Einzelpersonen, sondern in Familien getroffen. Die Familie ist der Ort, wo die Migration geplant wird, wo der Integrationsprozess am neuen Ort schrittweise stattfindet, und wo spater die Wahl zwischen einer Ruckkehr ins Ursprungsland oder einem definitiven Verbleib im Gastland getroffen wird (Beday-Hauser und Bolzman 1997). Trotz der grosen Bedeutung der Migrationsfamilie sind in der Schweiz nur sehr wenige Studien und Daten in Bezug auf Familienleben und Merkmale der Migration und des Integrationsprozesses verfugbar. Dies ist vermutlich darauf zuruckzufuhren, dass die Migration traditionell als individuelle Entscheidung des „immigrierten Arbeiters“ und nicht als kollektive Strategie wahrgenommen wird. Aus diesem Blickwinkel erscheinen Frauen und Kinder nur als Begleitpersonen des Migranten, die bei der Migration eine untergeordnete Rolle spielen.


Swiss Journal of Sociology | 2016

La nouvelle seconde génération. Introduction au numéro spécial

Sandro Cattacin; Rosita Fibbi; Philippe Wanner

Le lecteur tient dans ses mains le premier numéro spécial de la Revue suisse de sociologie sur les enfants de migrants en Suisse, à presque soixante-dix ans du premier accord sur la migration que la Suisse a signé avec un Etat tiers, à savoir l’Italie (1948). En Suisse, la migration à l’enseigne du modèle du Fremdarbeiter (ou Gastarbeiter, comme on disait en Allemagne) marque les Trente glorieuses et empêche efficacement l’installation durable des arrivants (Wanner 2014). Ainsi, les premiers travaux sur les enfants de migrants et notamment sur leur présence dans l’école suisse datent des années 1970, qui ont vu émerger les familles étrangères aux origines notamment italiennes et espagnoles (avec les travaux pionniers de la sociologie zurichoise autour de Hans-Joachim Hoffmann-Nowotny sur la famille ; voir par exemple Hoffmann-Nowotny 1973 ou Wilpert 1980). Mais une confrontation systématique n’arrive que dans les années 1980 suite à des discussions politiques sur l’avenir, mais aussi sur la dangerosité sociale, de la deuxième génération (CFE 1980) qu’on soupçonne d’ailleurs particulièrement engagée dans les mouvements urbains des années 1980. Gita Steiner Khamsi pose ainsi la question politique, dans un essai de 1985 qui résume les questionnements et les peurs présents dans cette période en Suisse (seulement) : la deuxième génération (comme d’ailleurs dans d’autres pays européens) est-elle une bombe sociale ? (Steiner-Khamsi 1985). Les études se succèdent dans les années 1980 et 1990 avec comme thèmes notamment la performance scolaire et la mobilité sociale (CFE 1980 ; Gonvers et al. 1980 ; Gretler et al. 1981 ; Gurny et al. 1984 ; Fibbi et De Rham 1988) et la criminalité (Killias 1989). Le thème de l’identité s’ajoute (et s’impose) à partir des années 2000 comme l’atteste la production scientifique sur l’inscription des descendants de migrants dans la société suisse : citons à titre d’exemple les travaux de Hämmig (2000), Bolzman et al. (2003), Juhasz et Mey (2003), Bauer et Riphahn (2004), Wessendorf (2005) et Frauenfelder (2006).


Swiss Journal of Sociology | 2016

Unequal Pathways. School-to-Work Trajectories for Children of Turkish and Western-Balkan Origin in Switzerland and Austria

Philipp Schnell; Rosita Fibbi

Abstract This paper investigates educational and occupational pathways of children of Turkish and Western-Balkan origin and of the majority population in Austria and Switzerland. Using a representative sample of 2186 respondents living in two Swiss and two Austrian urban areas, our results show that descendants of immigrants have less chances to follow a constant successful path from education to occupation in both countries, mainly because successful trajectories are determined by the parent’s socioeconomic status. However, young adults of Turkish and Western Balkan origin in Switzerland are more often upward mobile than the majority group. Altogether, our results indicate slightly greater chances for upward mobility among young adults in Switzerland in comparison to Austria. Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag analysiert Bildungs- und Berufsverläufe von Nachkommen türkischer und ehemals jugoslawischer MigrantInnen im Vergleich zu einheimischen jungen Erwachsenen in Österreich und der Schweiz. Unter Verwendung einer repräsentativen Erhebung mit insgesamt 2186 Befragten aus jeweils zwei Städten pro Land zeigen unsere Ergebnisse, dass Nachkommen von MigrantInnen in beiden Ländern eine geringere Chancen haben, akademisch orientierte Bildungswege einzuschlagen und beruflich höher gestellte Positionen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt einzunehmen. Diese Benachteiligung für die sogenannte zweite Generation lässt sich weitestgehend über die soziale Positionierung der Eltern (sozioökonomischer Hintergrund) erklären. Allerdings zeigen unsere Ergebnisse auch, dass Nachkommen von MigrantInnen im weiteren Verlauf ihrer schulischen und beruflichen Laufbahnen im Vergleich zu jungen Erwachsenen ohne Migrationshintergrund deutlich häufiger aufwärts mobil sind. Dabei sind die Chancen auf Aufwärtsmobilität für MigrantInnennachkommen in der Schweiz größer als in Österreich. Résumé Cet article analyse les trajectoires éducatives et professionnelles des jeunes adultes originaires de Turquie et des Balkans ainsi que celles des groupes majoritaires en Suisse et en Autriche, en s’appuyant sur un échantillon représentatif de 2186 répondants habitant deux contextes urbains dans chacun de ces pays. Les résultats montrent que dans les deux pays les enfants d’origine immigrée ont moins de chances de fréquenter tout au long de leur parcours les filières scolaires et professionnelles les plus prestigieuses, puisque ces trajectoires sont pour l’essentiel déterminées par le statut socio-économique des parents. Pourtant, les jeunes originaires de Turquie et des Balkans en Suisse sont plus nombreux à montrer une mobilité ascendante que les jeunes issus du groupe majoritaire. Globalement les chances de mobilité ascendante tendent à être légèrement plus élevées en Suisse qu’en Autriche.


Archive | 2014

Migrant Families in Switzerland: Intergenerational Dynamic Facing Integration

Rosita Fibbi

Migrant families have recently become a focus in Swiss political agenda as immigrant policy experienced a strong development in the last decade, away from labour market policy which was the dominant perspective in migration management in Switzerland. In this context, paradoxically migrant families are often casted in an ahistorical „traditional“ frame and conceptualised as the place of a reproduction and therefore opposition to change. The author challenges this perspective by pointing at various empirically based findings dealing with intergenerational mobility and relations. She shows how migrant families appear rather as the place of negotiation of sustainable change both for the individual and the group.


Life Course Research and Social Policies | 2015

Damned if you do, damned if you don't: The challenges of including and comparing the children of immigrants in European survey data

Laurence Lessard-Phillips; Silvia Galandini; H. de Valk; Rosita Fibbi

Children of immigrants are becoming an important share in Europe’s population. Although most of them have not experienced immigration themselves, as many of them were born in the European country where they reside, their families have. This specific position might have an impact on how they fare across their life in the country they live in. In recent years, children of immigrants have become an increasingly important topic of study in Europe and the focus of many survey data collection projects. One of the main underlying goals of these endeavors has been to study the life outcomes (such as education, health, and employment) and understand the mechanisms behind the potential differences in these outcomes between children of immigrants and a predetermined ‘comparison group’. The main issues that arise from such comparative projects are (1) the definition of the population under study; (2) the levels at which those comparisons are made (e.g. local, provincial, national, cross-national, etc.); (3) the ‘benchmark’ for integration, or whom to compare the children of immigrants to; and (4) the various biases arising from this research. These issues have theoretical implications and important consequences on the types of analyses that can be performed as well as the conclusions that we can draw from those comparisons. By reviewing major studies including children of immigrants in Europe, we provide a comprehensive overview of the possible types, levels and benchmarks for comparison; their availability in current European data; and the advantages and disadvantages tied to using these.


Archive | 2014

Eine Sprache und ein Pass als Erbe: Mehrsprachigkeit bei Enkelkindern von ImmigrantInnen in der Schweiz

Chantal Wyssmüller; Rosita Fibbi

Sprechen die Enkel der italienischen und spanischen ArbeitsmigrantInnen, die in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren in die Schweiz eingewandert sind, die Sprache ihrer Groseltern (noch)? Hatten bzw. haben die Eltern und Groseltern dieser Jugendlichen den Wunsch, ihre Herkunftssprache an die Kinder der dritten Generation weiterzugeben, und welche Strategien verfolg(t)en sie zu diesem Zweck? Welche praktische und identitare Bedeutung hat diese (Familien-)Sprache hier und jetzt fur die Jugendlichen der dritten Generation? Diesen Fragen sind wir in einer Studie uber eingewanderte Familien in der Schweiz nachgegangen.


Journal of International Migration and Integration \/ Revue De L'integration Et De La Migration Internationale | 2006

Unemployment and discrimination against youth of immigrant origin in Switzerland: When the name makes the difference

Rosita Fibbi; Mathias Lerch; Philippe Wanner

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Claudio Bolzman

University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

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Marie Vial

École Normale Supérieure

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Philipp Schnell

Austrian Academy of Sciences

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Maurice Crul

Erasmus University Rotterdam

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