Afroschweizer – Wikipedia

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Afroschweizer or Afro-Swiss is a name for people with Swiss citizenship and origin from Subsahara-Africa. [first] [2]

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According to the official Swiss population statistics, a total of 66,599 immigrants from Africa lived in Switzerland in 2007 (0.9% of the total population or 4.5% of the foreigners living in Switzerland). [3] :S. 72

As early as 2008, a total of 30% of the Africans living in Switzerland were asylum seekers. [3] :S. 14

In 2007, 51,867 people with African nationality were classified as constant residents of Switzerland.

This number was quinted from 1980 to 2007 (average increase 6% per year, doubling time 12 years).

Since no ethnic origin is recorded in the census, there is no official information on the number of natural Swiss citizens of African origin. There are unofficial estimates for some African states. It is estimated that in 1995 more than 1,500 immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands lived in Switzerland. [4]

North and Northeast African [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The largest group of immigrants from North African origin comes from Tunisia. [5]

Sub -Saharian African [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The reason for the above -average increase in the Swiss residents from Central Africa is immigration from Angola, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo. [5]

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Almost a third of the Africans living in Switzerland are asylum seekers. In addition, asylum seekers live in Switzerland as illegal immigrant who stayed there after their asylum application was rejected; Your number is unknown.

In 2009 the number of asylum applications from Nigerians increased steeply. In April 2010, the director of the Federal Office for Migration, Alard du Bois-Reymond, made an explanation of the large number of possibly unfounded asylum applications from Nigerians. Du Bois-Reymond said that 99.5% of asylum seekers of Nigerian origin were criminals who wanted to take advantage of the asylum system and entered into Switzerland in order to act as a petty criminal and act with drugs. [6] The Nigerian ambassador in Bern, Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi, condemned Boi-Reymonds explanation as an unjustified generalization. [7]

The question of repatriation is regularly taken up in Swiss politics in the context of “immigrant crime”, e.g. B. in connection with a wave of crime in the Geneva district of Pâquis, in which Algerians were mostly involved, or in connection with the nationwide activities of the Nigeria Connection. Switzerland has completed several repatriation agreements with African countries. There has also been such an agreement with Algeria since 2006; However, because of the refusal of Algeria to ratify additional protocols, it has stalled. With Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, Switzerland has taken technical return agreements for repatriation rejected asylum seekers. [8] There is also a repatriation agreement with Nigeria, but Nigeria was suspended by Nigeria after the death of a Nigerian citizen during a forced repatriation in March 2010. [9]

Famous immigrants from Africa can be found primarily in sports and especially in football, e.g. B. Gelson Fernandes, Oumar Kondé, Mobulu M’futi, Blaise Nkufo, Cédric Tsimba, Johan Djourou, Breel Embolo. The first Swiss to have ever played in the NBA is Thabo Sefolosha, the son of a South African.

Ricardo Lumengo, which was emigrated from Angola, is also known, who was elected to the National Council in the 2007 Parliamentary elections in 2007.

  1. ↑ A conversation with rapper native: “This revolution begins in our heads”. 17. June 2020, accessed on July 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ How does it live as an Afro-Swiss? This documentary film shows it. Accessed on July 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Federal Office of Statistics (BFS): Foreigners in Switzerland – report 2008 ( Memento from August 2, 2013 in Internet Archive ; Pdf; 1.17 MB)
  4. ↑ umassd.edu: 1995 Cape Verdean Diaspora Population Estimates ( Memento from August 29, 2009 in Internet Archive ) (English)
  5. ↑ a b BFS: Constant foreign resident population after nationality, 1980 to 2011 ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in Internet Archive ; Excel-Data, 239 KB)
  6. ↑ Task Force against asylum abuse 11. April 2010.
  7. ↑ Nigerians attribute faster. NZZ April 11, 2010.
    Nigerian ambassador demands pronunciation with the Swiss head of office. 29. April 2010
  8. ↑ Refugee Repatriation Debate Rears Its Head; Debate about the repatriation of refugees (English) swissinfo.ch of March 4, 2010.
  9. ↑ Nigeria puts temptable fact unless craft 16. April 2010.

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