• residents fell to 10.4% by 1920, and to 5.1% by 1941. Immigration has picked up again after 1945. Beginning in the mid-1950s, immigration increased steeply...
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    Italian immigration to Switzerland (unrelated to the indigenous Italian-speaking population in Ticino and in the southern part of Grisons) is related to the...
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    only 0.6% of the crime rate among Swiss nationals. The extent of and reasons for Swiss opposition to German immigration were studied in Helbling (2009–11)...
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    referendum that aimed to limit immigration through quotas, as it had been prior to the bilateral treaties between Switzerland and the European Union...
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    Islam in Switzerland has mostly arrived via immigration since the late 20th century. Numbering below 1% of total population in 1980, the fraction of Muslims...
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  • A significant wave of immigration from the former Yugoslavia to Switzerland occurred during the 1990s and 2000s. While moderate numbers of Yugoslav citizens...
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    Immigration to Europe has a long history, but increased substantially after World War II. Western European countries, especially, saw high growth in immigration...
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  • Swiss to be prejudiced against Albanians, which has led to fear, hatred and insecurity. Political parties that publicly oppose excessive immigration and...
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  • immigrate to a country without having official permission to do so. Opposition to immigration ranges from calls for various immigration reforms, to proposals...
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    Politics of Switzerland Poverty in Switzerland Metropolitan areas in Switzerland Albanians in Switzerland Italian immigration to Switzerland "Bevölkerungsbestand...
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    restricted immigration from Asia, and quota laws enacted in the 1920s curtailed Southern and Eastern European immigration. The civil rights movement led to the...
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    destination country do not fall under the definition of immigration or migration; seasonal labour immigration is sometimes included, however. As for economic...
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  • opposition to mass immigration. Its vote share of 28.9% in the 2007 federal election was the highest vote ever recorded for a single party in Switzerland until...
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    post-World War II Italian immigration to Switzerland, Italian was transmitted as a lingua franca in the factory and on construction sites to ethnic groups of foreign...
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    treaties with it. The EDU views the increased immigration to Switzerland as an integration problem and says that to increase security, adjusting the freedom...
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    domestic immigration law and policy went through significant changes, most notably with the Immigration Act, 1976, and the current Immigration and Refugee...
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    as high (0.6%) compared to Swiss citizens (0.3%). ^a Specific immigration status not collected ^b Final number may change due to appeals and trials still...
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    century). The immigration from nearby countries (Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay) from the 19th to 21st century. These immigration streams date...
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    /ˌɑː-/; Hebrew: עֲלִיָּה ʿălīyyā, lit. 'ascent') is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel or the Palestine...
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  • percent). According to Reuters, Oslo is the "fastest growing city in Europe because of increased immigration". In recent years, immigration has accounted for...
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  • Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of that country's immigration laws, or the continuous residence in a country...
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    relations of Switzerland Swiss people Demographics of Switzerland Immigration to Switzerland Swiss Abroad Act (Switzerland) News service for Swiss abroad from...
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    BBC, 3 March 2016 http://www.immigration-residency.eu statistics Archived 2014-08-16 at the Wayback Machine Immigration to France 2013 "La localisation...
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    captain. In the late 19th century, immigration from China and Japan was restricted. In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political...
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  • to those countries to help rebuild after the war, and many stayed. Political debates about immigration typically focus on statistics, the immigration...
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