Publication: The making of a Swiss migration regime: electronic data infrastructures and statistics in the Federal Administration, 1960s–1990s
The making of a Swiss migration regime: electronic data infrastructures and statistics in the Federal Administration, 1960s–1990s
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Espahangizi, K., & Mähr, M. (2020). The making of a Swiss migration regime: electronic data infrastructures and statistics in the Federal Administration, 1960s–1990s. Journal of Migration History, 6(3), 379–404. https://doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00603005
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The article analyses the transformation of Swiss migration statistics through digital data processing in the 1970s and 1980s. It focuses on the emergence of two different modes of migration statistics management within the Swiss federal administration. First, in the early 1970s, the Swiss Federal Aliens Police implemented an electronic database with comprehensive statistics on foreigners, the so-called Central Aliens Register. It was devised as a data-driven instrument for regulating labour supply within the scope of the Western Europ
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- Espahangizi, Kijan
- Mähr, Moritz
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Espahangizi, K., & Mähr, M. (2020). The making of a Swiss migration regime: electronic data infrastructures and statistics in the Federal Administration, 1960s–1990s. Journal of Migration History, 6(3), 379–404. https://doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00603005