GenevaLunch » asylum seekers http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +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.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no 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/ 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 grow http://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 visitors http://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 comfortable http://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 2011 http://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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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/worlds-asylum-seekers-increased-by-17-in-first-half-2011/feed/ 0 Australia: Grave concerns for the mental welfare of child asylum-seekers http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/26/australia-grave-concerns-for-the-mental-welfare-of-child-asylum-seekers/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/26/australia-grave-concerns-for-the-mental-welfare-of-child-asylum-seekers/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:22:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61858 GenevaLunch.com AUSTRALIA – Child asylum-seekers in Australia may be victims of “child abuse,” said the Australian Medical Association, AMA, to a joint select committee looking into Australia’s detention network. The AMA said it has “grave concerns for the mental welfare of child asylum-seekers and believes mandatory detention is akin to child abuse.” According to the Association, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/26/australia-grave-concerns-for-the-mental-welfare-of-child-asylum-seekers/feed/ 0 Nigerian sent back from Zurich: first flight runs into trouble http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/08/nigerian-sent-back-from-zurich-first-flight-runs-into-trouble/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/08/nigerian-sent-back-from-zurich-first-flight-runs-into-trouble/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:45:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59565 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The first group of Nigerians to be returned to their country in a year for being in Switzerland illegally was coloured by problems at Zurich Airport Thursday 7 July. Two of the group of 19 resisted and were injured by police; they were not put on the plane in the end and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/08/nigerian-sent-back-from-zurich-first-flight-runs-into-trouble/feed/ 1 World’s poorest nations are hosting 80% of refugees, UN report says http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/20/worlds-poorest-nations-are-hosting-80-of-refugees-un-report-says/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/20/worlds-poorest-nations-are-hosting-80-of-refugees-un-report-says/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:01:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58961 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The numbers alone are daunting: 43.7 million displaced persons worldwide, of which 15.4m are refugees, 27.5m are internally displaced refugees and nearly 850,000 are asylum seekers, with one-fifth of asylum seekers in South Africa alone. The world’s 49 least developed countries hosted some 2 million refugees last year. Just under 100,000 refugees [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/20/worlds-poorest-nations-are-hosting-80-of-refugees-un-report-says/feed/ 3 Asylum seekers number continue to fall: half of 2001 level http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/28/asylum-seekers-number-continue-to-fall-half-of-2001-level/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/28/asylum-seekers-number-continue-to-fall-half-of-2001-level/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:02:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55804 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The number of asylum seekers in the world has been halved in the past 10 years, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says in its 2010 annual asylum report issued early Monday 27 March. Whether this is good news or bad is difficult to judge, concedes the Geneva-based organization’s head. “The [...]

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