GenevaLunch » asylum seekers http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Asylum seekers’ fight at Fribourg station leaves 1 in critical conditionhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/16/asylum-seekers-fight-at-fribourg-station-leaves-1-in-critical-condition/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/16/asylum-seekers-fight-at-fribourg-station-leaves-1-in-critical-condition/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 08:20:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70312 GenevaLunch.com FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND – A fight that broke out at the Fribourg train station at 20.20 Tuesday 15 May has left one man, a 26-year-old Tunisian asylum seeker, in critical condition, say Fribourg police. Five men, all African asylum seekers, were arrested, but a sixth man fled the scene. Police are trying to identify the missing [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/16/asylum-seekers-fight-at-fribourg-station-leaves-1-in-critical-condition/feed/ 0 Asylum requests up 8% in April but countries shiftinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/11/asylum-requests-up-8-in-april-but-countries-shifting/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/11/asylum-requests-up-8-in-april-but-countries-shifting/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 12:36:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70163 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s closely-watched numbers of asylum-seekers rose by 7.9 percent in April, compared to March, showing a continuing significant increase. The countries of origin were markedly different compared to the previous month, however. The country’s relatively high number of foreigners, 22.3 percent of the population and the highest percentage in Europe except for [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/11/asylum-requests-up-8-in-april-but-countries-shifting/feed/ 0 Swiss federal gov’t to shift refugees, asylum seekers fundinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/18/swiss-federal-govt-to-shift-refugees-asylum-seekers-funding/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/18/swiss-federal-govt-to-shift-refugees-asylum-seekers-funding/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:38:36 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69187 GenevaLunch.com Bern admits 2008 programme has “not always worked as planned” BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss federal government plans to put more federal money into providing medical and other help for asylum seekers who are being repatriated when their requests are denied and to increase financial incentives that would encourage more to return voluntarily to their [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/18/swiss-federal-govt-to-shift-refugees-asylum-seekers-funding/feed/ 0 Swiss Defense Dep’t prepares asylum shelter listhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/03/swiss-defense-dept-prepares-asylum-shelter-list/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/03/swiss-defense-dept-prepares-asylum-shelter-list/#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:28:53 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67231 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland will be creating an additional 2,000 spaces to welcome asylum seekers while their initial requests for asylum are being processed. The country currently receives about 2,500 new requests a month and the confederation has reached the limits of its space for processing them as they enter the country. Once the first [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/03/swiss-defense-dept-prepares-asylum-shelter-list/feed/ 0 Swiss Migration Office given slap on hand over ignored Iraqi asylum caseshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/11/swiss-migration-office-given-slap-on-hand-over-ignored-iraqi-asylum-cases/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/11/swiss-migration-office-given-slap-on-hand-over-ignored-iraqi-asylum-cases/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:56:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65130 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Migration Office’s current backlog of some 3,000 applications must be completed and applications brought up to date by 2013, former Swiss Federal Judge Michel Féraud concluded as part of his final report on applications for asylum in Switzerland. But the most damning part of his report covers applications from Iraqis [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/11/swiss-migration-office-given-slap-on-hand-over-ignored-iraqi-asylum-cases/feed/ 0 Asylum seeker numbers in Switzerland continue to growhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/12/asylum-seeker-numbers-in-switzerland-continue-to-grow/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/12/asylum-seeker-numbers-in-switzerland-continue-to-grow/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:47:03 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64640 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The number of asylum seekers in Switzerland grew strongly, 19.8 percent, in November, with 2,142 requests, following a similar increase in October, according to the Federal Migration Office. The largest numbers were from Tunisians (+163 percent), Eritreans (+16.1 percent) and Serbs. The latter group was mainly from the Roma population and most [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/12/asylum-seeker-numbers-in-switzerland-continue-to-grow/feed/ 0 Visp asylum centre raid nets drugs, cash, illegal visitorshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/visp-asylum-centre-raid-nets-drugs-cash-illegal-visitors/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/visp-asylum-centre-raid-nets-drugs-cash-illegal-visitors/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:18:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64457 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Canton Valais police raided the Visp asylum centre Monday and found 156 grams of cocaine, several hundred grams of marijuana, a fake CHF200 bill and CHF1,500 in cash. Five people were arrested; a 20-year-old Gambian for drug abuse, a 22year-old from Equatorial Guinea for being in Switzerland illegally, two Nigerians ages 21 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/visp-asylum-centre-raid-nets-drugs-cash-illegal-visitors/feed/ 0 Switzerland’s foreigners, poor and criminal or rich and comfortablehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/03/switzerlands-foreigners-poor-and-criminal-or-rich-and-comfortable/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/03/switzerlands-foreigners-poor-and-criminal-or-rich-and-comfortable/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:26:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64383 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland, with a foreign population that is 24 percent of the total, is grappling with the extremes they bring: what some consider undesirable foreigners, on the one hand, and on the other hand those who help finance a more comfortable life for their communes. Most, of course, sit somewhere in the middle, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/03/switzerlands-foreigners-poor-and-criminal-or-rich-and-comfortable/feed/ 1 Tunisian asylum seekers up, Swiss return 351 people to Italy (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/09/tunisian-asylum-seekers-up-swiss-return-351-people-to-italy-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/09/tunisian-asylum-seekers-up-swiss-return-351-people-to-italy-update/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:31:23 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63386 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The number of asylum seekers in Switzerland rose 4.9 percent in October, representing 100 more individuals (total, 31 October: 2,142) than in September,  new figures from the Federal Migration Office shows. The office says that at the end of September the figures for the second quarter of the year were stable, with [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/09/tunisian-asylum-seekers-up-swiss-return-351-people-to-italy-update/feed/ 2 World’s asylum seekers increased by 17% in first half 2011http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/worlds-asylum-seekers-increased-by-17-in-first-half-2011/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/worlds-asylum-seekers-increased-by-17-in-first-half-2011/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:34:29 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62553 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The number of asylum seekers worldwide increased by 17 percent, the UN refugee group UNHCR announced Tuesday. Applications to industrialized countries numbered 198,300 from 1 January to 30 June 2011, with “most claimants coming from countries with longstanding displacement situations.” The figures are part of report issued 18 October by the UN [...]

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