«Tant qu'il y aura l'immigré, il y aura aussi votre émission ». Le dialogue entre les immigrés et l'émission radiophonique Per i lavoratori italiani in Svizzera au tournant des années 1970

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In the 1960s, a few public service broadcasting corporations started creating special programmes for immigrants. This development was often related to immigrant integration policies in European nations. Between 1962 and 1992, a group of journalists from Radio della Svizzera Italiana - the Swiss Italian-speaking radio - organised a special programme for Italians in Switzerland: Per i lavoratori italiani in Svizzera. Utilising a wide-ranging network of correspondents and profiting from an intensive exchange with Italian immigrants, this radio broadcast was supposed to help the immigrants in their daily life. In this paper, I shall firstly explain the position of radio and television broadcasting on immigration. Secondly, I will take a closer look at the correspondence between listeners and radio journalists between 1960 and 1970, which was a controversial period for the Swiss debate on foreign workers. What are the topics in this correspondence? What are the journalists responses? My thesis is that Per i lavoratori italiani in Svizzera developed a «broadcasting pact» with Italian immigrants and aimed at overcoming structural and functional marginalisation of this social group.