This article deals with the opportunities foreign workers have to participate in the job market on an equal footing in the state in which they reside. Using Switzerland as an example, we will pay particular attention to the possibility or not for qualified foreign workers to transfer their cultural capital (Bourdieu, La distinction. Critique sociale du jugement, Paris: Minuit, 1979) from their home to their new country, in other words to perform a job matching their level of training and which enables them to emphasize the professional qualification obtained in the pas
