For more than one hundred years, the Swiss Social Democratic Party and the trade unions shaped Swiss working-class culture. In the seventies, this culture completely collapsed. The working class of yesteryear are called foreigners. An essay by an immigrant child from a former working class stronghold.
Direction
Samir Jamal Al Din weaponizes personal essay against national mythmaking.
Editing
Collage of 1970s labor footage versus contemporary xenophobic rhetoric.
Director
Samir Jamal Al Din
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references a 1990s Swiss political slogan that rebranded economic anxiety as immigration panic.
Al Din's hometown of Schwyz was the last Swiss canton to grant women voting rights—in 1990, not 1971 like the rest of the country.
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