In Switzerland, migration and asylum policy have changed dramatically since the end of the Cold War. It has become more restrictive and seeks to categorise people according to the logic of the nation state and its ideas of belonging and not belonging. This contrasts sharply with a psychiatric clinic's general inclusive logic reflecting a universalist perspective based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This article seeks to analyse the contrast and the structurisation mechanisms of the two "logics" and how the two are intertwined. By looking more closely at the Psychiatric Clinic of Basel-Land (Clinic), it also seeks to analyse the structure and implementation of the current transcultural approach used by the Clinic since 2008 when transcultural psychiatry was given priority.

Universalism Psychiatry Asylum seekers Refugees Switzerland Liberal paradox Transcultural

mental hospital Review cultural psychiatry human rights asylum seeker Switzerland human cold stress logic