How Zurich’s growth became an immigration debate with Philipp Loser, Tages Anzeiger
More than 100 years ago, right here in Zurich, a Swiss welfare administrator coined a word for the fear of "too many foreigners." That word shaped a political movement in the 1970s and this year, more than 50 years later, Switzerland voted on capping its population at 10 million.
Host Katarina Hagstedt speaks with Philipp Loser, journalist at Tages-Anzeiger and co-author of Heute Abstimmung, about the the century-old roots of Switzerland's immigration debates, and why growth, housing, and belonging keep getting tangled into the same argument.
Read Philipp's original article here…
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