Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million. The initiative, led by the right-wing Swiss People's Party, was seen as a move against migration.

Nearly 55% of voters in Switzerland on Sunday rejected an initiative championed by the top right-wing party to cap the rich Alpine country’s population at 10 million, early results showed.

The populist Swiss People’s Party, which has the most seats in parliament, has stirred up and fostered anti-migration sentiment over the years, notably about an influx of workers from the neighboring European Union.

Some have dubbed the proposal a “Swiss Brexit” because it could jeopardize Switzerland’s deep ties to the European Union anchored by deals that foster economic growth, cultural ties and cross-border travel, among other things. Switzerland is not one of the EU’s 27 member states, but it is all but surrounded by four of them

  • Talentless Sculptor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Especially since the Swiss immigration standard is so rigorous. They basically only accept the kind of immigrants that will integrate easily and not contribute to crime. As such they don’t even have the immigration related issues (rapes and murders) of countries like Swede, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the UK.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      26 days ago

      Research suggests that policing strategy may have put immigrants at a disadvantage by targeting only the most public forms of crime, while locals were more likely able to engage in the types of crimes that could be conducted behind locked doors.

      The problem with “conducting your own research” is you also have to then read it.

      • Talentless Sculptor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        25 days ago

        Totally, but that obviously isn’t the case since we see that a crime that is very “behind closed doors” like spousal assaults and homicide was also more prevalent amongst immigrants in Norway.

      • Talentless Sculptor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        25 days ago

        Research suggests that policing strategy may have put immigrants at a disadvantage by targeting only the most public forms of crime, while locals were more likely able to engage in the types of crimes that could be conducted behind locked doors.

        LOL! The VERY NEXT SENTENCE: “An analysis of historical courtroom records suggests that despite higher rates of arrest, immigrants were not systematically disadvantaged by the British court system in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries”

    • ForeverComical@lemmy.caEnglish
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      26 days ago

      I wonder if the output from the judicial system is the right tool to understand those issues.

      Those are known to discriminate.

      • katzimir@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        26 days ago

        in germany the stats mentioned here look at suspects not at convictions.

        Also checked that wikipedia citation abt sweden. It is from one study that defines second generation immiration status as immigrant. secondly that same wikipedia entry mentions that roughly 80 percent of cases are not reported. there are some scenarios that i can think of that prove this study to be utterly useless uneless it is meant to sow xenophobia.