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Roberto Ceccarelli In faceless backyards and industrial zones immigrants recreate a piece of home.

Rita Palanikumar Faces that defy ethnic classification.

Rita Palanikumar Faces that defy ethnic classification.

Andrea Helbling Anonymous rows of Zurich houses serve as a reminder that in Switzerland too parallel societies could evolve, as in some French suburbs.

Goran Galic Group portraits. A Bosnian Serb family at a birthday party.

Roland Tännler A business student in Zurich.

Roland Tännler A business student in Zurich.

Eva-Maria Züllig A montage suggests a fictional Switzerland in which Indian food stores exist next to Turkish carpet shops and Italian delicatessens.

Eva-Maria Züllig A montage suggests a fictional Switzerland in which Turkish food stores exist next to Spanish bookshops and Italian delicatessens.

Eva-Maria Züllig A montage suggests a fictional Switzerland in which Spanish bookshops exist next to Indian food stores and Turkish carpet shops.

Eva-Maria Züllig A montage suggests a fictional Switzerland in which Italian delicatessens co-exist with Indian food stores and Turkish carpet shops.

Guadalupe Ruiz Immigrants from Colombia. By using deliberate exaggeration and playing with clichés, the photographer challenges our perception of Latin-American machismo.

Andrea Gohl In the age of mobile phones, phone booths are mostly used by foreigners without their own landlines. These "non-places" are metaphors for life far from home.

Paco Carrascosa Posing and showing off: Balkan car freaks.

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Migration in pictures: an inventory

The book Migration in Pictures conveys a playful and at times inscrutable look into Switzerland’s migrant community. The picture essays of 12 photographers are complemented by journalistic and scientific contributions. The book was published by “Here and Now” in 2006.