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L’accueil de personnes réfugiées peut se révéler très positif à long terme pour une société sur le plan démographique et économique, mais il est très coûteux pour l’Etat social durant les premières années de séjour et suscite de violents débats politiques. Au cours des dernières décennies, les pays d’Europe ont ...
+ En lire plusIn times of global migration and mobility citizenship and voting rights need to be reconsidered, especially in countries or cities with a high rate of foreign residents. In Brussels an initiative is proposing to grant voting rights to all residents of the city. In Switzerland the concept of citizenship in ...
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A new market for home care has emerged in Switzerland, fostered by the free movement of workers. Private care agencies recruit women from lower-wage countries and place them in private households for elderly care. The women usually work for a few weeks or months at a time and commute between
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The initiative ‘Swiss Law instead of Foreign Judges (Initiative for Self-Determination)’ is the last in a long series of initiatives launched by the SVP with the aim to reverse the philosophy of the new Swiss Constitution to assure fundamental rights protections to all residents, including minorities. The intention is to
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In der letzten Zeit gab es in einigen Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union, vor allem in Deutschland, Vorschläge, Migrant*innen an der Grenze abzuweisen. Auch in der Schweiz wird dies gelegentlich vorgetragen. Nach einer Lektüre des nationalen Rechts erscheint es tatsächlich möglich, Migrant*innen an der Grenze abzuweisen. So erlaubt z.B. Art. 64c AuG «formlose ...
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