This text tackles the way work imagined the intervention related to migration issues during the second half of the last century. Starting from the case of Switzerland, the author tries to systematize ways of thinking and acting which have not necessarily been clarified by the professionals. Five models are reviewed: assimilationist, ethno-cultural, community, intercultural and anti-discriminatory repairer. Shedding light on these models is interesting because it clarifies their underlying presuppositions and makes it possible to examine their potentialities, their limits and their risks for intervention in that field. © De Boeck Université. Tous droits réservé s pour tous pays.

Migrants Integration discrimination Intervention models Interculturality Social work

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