Blackness and Black Lives in Switzerland
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Published:January 2025
Antiblackness in Switzerland, as well as Black lives, cannot be discussed due to a variety of reasons. Particularly, there is no common term to talk about Black Swiss, there is no Black Swiss community, and the way to talk about Black Swiss happens through immigration background and the category of the foreigner. Nonetheless, antiblackness is continually articulated by way of policing borders and belonging. This chapter unpacks the connections between police profiling both at the border and through asking for identification documents, as well as through management of kinship in the case of immigration and the very inability to discuss antiblackness. In this process, readers also begin meeting Black Swiss as those voices who speak up against these injustices.
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