• Asylum law in Switzerland is the responsibility of the Swiss Confederation, while the cantons are responsible for implementing the decisions of the State...
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  • asylum seekers). Of these, 354,000 were born in Switzerland. Another 522,000 had resided in Switzerland for more than 15 years. Swiss nationality law...
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  • The Asylum Act (AsylA) (German: Asylgesetz (AsylG), French: Loi sur l’asile (LAsi), Italian: Legge sull’asilo (LAsi)) is a Swiss federal law that governs...
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    Nationals and Integration Act Human rights in Switzerland Asylum Act (Switzerland) Asylum law in Switzerland migrations, Secrétariat d’État aux. "La migration...
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  • Switzerland's asylum residence permits are varied and grant very different rights. Any foreigner staying in Switzerland for more than three months must...
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  • organization of six aid organizations active in Switzerland in the field of asylum, namely Caritas Switzerland, Entraide protestante suisse (EPER), l'Œuvre...
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    rights are largely respected in Switzerland, one of Europe's oldest democracies. Switzerland is often at or near the top in international rankings of civil...
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  • An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the...
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    apartments, some accept credit cards. In Switzerland, prostitution has been legal since 1942. In 1992, the sexual criminal law was revised, since then pimping...
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    Dublin Regulation (category Right of asylum in the European Union)
    leaving Italy’s reception center in Bari without permission, the family applied for asylum in first Austria and then Switzerland, but both countries applied...
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    "Iranian given asylum in Norway". News24.com. Randy K. Lippert (2005). Sanctuary, Sovereignty, Sacrifice: Canadian Sanctuary Incidents, Power and Law. UBC Press...
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    most of the Muslim immigration to Switzerland stems from asylum seekers arriving primarily from Eastern Europe. In more recent years, there has been migration...
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    Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France...
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  • Brahumdagh Bugti (category Pakistani expatriates in Switzerland)
    asylum request was rejected by Swiss authorities. The Swiss authorities said that the Bugti's asylum request was rejected because he was involved in terror-related...
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  • federal officials where most asylum seekers would be accommodated. The discussion about basic income in Switzerland began in the 1980s, initially amongst...
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  • Foreign Nationals and Integration Act (category Law of Switzerland)
    integration that exist in Swiss society. Immigration to Switzerland Asylum Act State Secretariat for Migration Asylum law in Switzerland "Fedlex". www.fedlex...
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    The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the...
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  • Non-refoulement (category Right of asylum)
    murdered in the Holocaust. Switzerland refused entry to nearly 20,000 French Jews who sought asylum there after the Nazi takeover of France. The Swiss argued...
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  • This is a list of people granted political asylum for individual and publicly known reasons. They were persecuted because of their actions as individuals...
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  • "against misuse of asylum rights" and a federal law on compulsory unemployment insurance and compensation for insolvencies. The asylum proposal was rejected...
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    security IV: asylum law V: asylum law VI: law concerning foreigners and citizenship The judges are elected by the Federal Assembly of Switzerland and serve...
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  • in Switzerland during 2013. Voters approved six proposals related to spatial planning, executive pay, family policy, amendments to the laws on asylum...
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  • Swiss People's Party which has incorporated most of the party's agenda. The FPS campaigns on a pronounced right-wing agenda, advocating strict asylum...
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    Experts Switzerland – Second World War (PDF). Zürich: Pendo Verlag GmbH. p. 107. ISBN 3-85842-603-2. Asylum in German, French and Italian in the online...
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  • Eurodac (category European Union law)
    the Swiss Confederation concerning the criteria and mechanisms for establishing the State responsible for examining a request for asylum lodged in a Member...
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    in Switzerland is combated mainly by cantonal police. The Federal Office of Police investigates organised crime, money laundering and terrorism. In Switzerland...
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    site of national significance. In 2013, Bremgarten was the first municipality in Europe to introduce laws forbidding asylum seekers from visiting certain...
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    Law Reform (2008) C-127/08, holding that four asylum seekers from outside the EU, although they did not lawfully enter Ireland (because their asylum claims...
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    change their laws, allowing for "everyone in the country" to be spied on legally. Snowden applied for asylum in Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Snowden,...
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  • Christoph Meili (category Swiss emigrants to the United States)
    issued to him, Meili fled Switzerland to the United States by right of asylum in late 1997, returning to his home country in 2009. His disclosure was one...
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