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Transnationalität (Transnationality), Swiss magazine on integration and migration, Commissioned by: Federal Commission on Migration (FCM), Picture editor for title story: Katri Burri, 2009.

Between 1850 and 1914 around 400,000 people emigrated from Switzerland. Katri Burri did research in archives and collections to conceive an edition of terra cognita entitled “Transnationality”, featuring a series of images about the different realities of Swiss émigrés all over the world.

Pietro Rudolfo Lardi with his son in Southampton. (© Collezione Olinto Tognina)
The family of Swiss cheesemaker Fritz Stücker-Ammeter around 1900 in the Kars area, which at the time belonged to Russia. (© Russian-Swiss archive at the University of Zurich Department of History, Eastern Europe section, Photo 60)
Workers at the Pasticceria Klainguti candied fruit factory in Genoa, around 1900. (© Archivio Storico Castelmur)
Around 1880 Rudolf Anliker and his wife emigrated from Huttwil (Canton Bern) to Goble, Oregon, where they cleared forest and established a farm. (E. Signer-Anliker private archive, Bassersdorf)
Dr. Viktor Emil Schoch at the mission hospital in Ka-Yin-Tschu, China. (E. Signer-Anliker private archive, Bassersdorf)
Basel native in Yokohama, around 1890. (© Swiss National Museum, Zurich, LM-105324.9, DIG-5615)
The family of Johann Rudolf Merian with nanny and servants in the garden of Villa Basilea in Yokohama, around 1891. (© Swiss National Museum, Zurich, LM-105324.17, DIG-5616)
Villa Basilea, home of the family of Johann Rudolf Merian in Yokohama, on 9 July 1886 on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Sempach. (© Swiss National Museum, Zurich, LM105324.22, DIG-5617)
Passport belonging to Ferdinand Schweizer, who emigrated to Russia in around 1900. (Winterthur Library, special collections, MS 8° 290)