... and women also came

Questions along the interfaces of migration, civil rights and gender are still the focus of public debate today. Italian migrant women have made a significant contribution to this. In the media and political debates, migrant women usually encounter us as passively following wives and mothers, as guardians of tradition and subject to the "culture" of their countries of origin. This study offers a different perspective. It shows migrant women as agents, as social and political actors who helped to shape and shape Switzerland as a country of immigration. The book sheds light on the emergence and development of a women-specific commitment in the most important organization of Italian migrants in Switzerland: the Federazione delle Colonie Libere Italiane in Svizzera (FCLIS). Thousands of Italian women lived and worked in Switzerland in the 1960s and 1st century BC.