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The number of asylum applications in Switzerland has increased.
The number of asylum applications in Switzerland is increasing. The State Secretariat for Immigration (SEM) has had to increase its forecast for 2022 from 16,500 to 19,000 asylum applications by the end of the year. It is likely that the record level of the refugee crisis will not be reached in 2015. Migrants come mainly via the so-called Balkan route.
In addition to regular migrants, there will be 80,000 to 85,000 Ukrainian refugees, which the Ministry of Migration and Refugees expects this year. There are currently about 65,000. In order to be able to accommodate all the refugees, more capacity needs to be created.
Capacity is expanded
“Due to the increase in occupancy, the Women’s Affairs Department has started reopening temporarily closed accommodation and opening new accommodations. Including multi-purpose halls and civil protection systems,” the authority said at the request of the SRF.
The cantons are also feeling the increasing number of refugees. New accommodations will open in Aargau on Monday and 100 to 120 accommodations will be added in St Gallen over the next few months, according to officials in charge of the radio. SRF to say.
Numbers like the refugee crisis
While there were still a total of 9,000 free places federally at the start of the summer, there are now just over 7,000.
Switzerland is also increasingly used as a transit country. Border guards arrested 6,600 immigrants in September alone. Christian Bock, director of the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security, said in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian that these numbers were last seen during the refugee crisis. Daily Gazette.
Immigrants from other countries
According to Bock, many would like to travel to France and Great Britain. About half of them are Afghans, and the other half are from North Africa and countries such as India, Cuba and Burundi. According to the Director of Customs, the mix of nationalities has changed.
Bock suspects that this is because many can enter Serbia without a visa. Justice Minister Karen Keeler-Sutter, 58, made a similar statement to the media last week.
workers wanted
Judith Kollenberger, 35, from the University of Vienna sees other reasons: In addition to people who have reasons for asylum from countries like Syria or Afghanistan, there are more and more people from countries like India, Pakistan and Morocco. The immigration researcher told the SRF that they were reacting to a growing need for workers, for example in Spain, Italy or France, where they were often employed illegally to help with the harvest.
Kollenberger says that if they are caught in transit, they often apply for asylum in German-speaking countries. Added to this is the backlog caused by the Covid pandemic. Many had worked in the target countries before the pandemic. (Tom)
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