The idea of boundary work has become a key concept in studies on ethnicity and¦provides new theoretical insights into the social organisation of cultural difference.¦People articulate ethnic boundaries in everyday interactions using conceptual¦distinctions to construct notions of 'us' and 'them'. This study is based on an¦empirical case study (ethnographic fieldwork, interviews) with young people (16-21¦years old) in a Swiss vocational school. The results emphasise that the moral¦imperative of gender equality is the most significant category used to create¦boundaries between Swiss and Albanian migrants. Our study considers boundary¦work as relational and thus examines the strategies of both the Swiss majority and¦the (male) Albanian minority. Results suggest that the boundary itself is seldom¦contested by either Swiss or Albanians, and we argue that the visibility of the¦boundary ('brightness') is closely linked to larger power relations in society between¦those groups.