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SWI / FEWER ERITREANS Asylum applications drop by a third in Switzerland

Posted by: Semere Asmelash

Date: Monday, 22 January 2018

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The drop is partly due to fewer arrivals from conflict zones
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Asylum applications drop by a third in Switzerland

JAN 22, 2018

A total of 18,088 migrants filed for asylum in Switzerland in 2017, a decline of 33.5%. It is the lowest number of applications since 2010. 

According to the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) the decline in applications is largely due to two factors. First, a drop in migration along the central Mediterranean route from mid-July onwards. 

Second, fewer migrant arrivals from conflict zones like Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, which were quite significant at the beginning of 2016. 

The majority of asylum applications came from Eritrea with 3,375 requests. 

However, this represents a decline of nearly 35% over one year. Syria came next with 1,951 applications (-9%), followed by Afghanistan with 1,217 requests (-62%), Turkey with 852 requests (+62%), Somalia with 843 (-46.7) and Sri Lanka with 840 (-38.8%).




Her#WORLD NEWSJANUARY 22, 2018 / 12:18 PM / UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO

Swiss asylum requests drop to lowest level since 2010

Reuters Staff

ZURICH (Reuters) - Asylum requests in Switzerland fell to their lowest level in eight years in 2017, down by a third from the previous year, as arrivals from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq tapered off, state migration authorities said on Monday.

In total, 18,088 asylum requests were registered last year, down 9,119 from 2016 and less than half the 39,523 requests of 2015, Switzerland said.

Not since 2010, when 15,567 applied for asylum in Switzerland, have numbers been below 20,000.

Neighboring Germany, where more than a million migrants arrived since 2015, also saw a slowdown in 2017 of about a third to 186,000, though some government officials contend the figure remains too high.

In addition to a slowdown of asylum bids from the conflict-torn Middle East, Swiss officials said the flow of applications from Africans seeking to win refugee status in Europe also lost momentum.

“On the one hand, migration of persons from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq that characterized asylum applications in 2016 was a phenomenon that largely disappeared in 2017,” the State Secretariat for Migration said in a statement.

“Secondly, the decline in migration across the central Mediterranean Sea from mid-July 2017 has led to a sharp decline in asylum applications from sub-Saharan African countries,” it added.

People from Eritrea topped the Swiss list of asylum seekers, making up nearly a fifth of requests, followed by Syrians, Afghans and people from Turkey who sought asylum amid a widening crackdown following that country’s failed 2016 coup.

Even as the flow of Middle Eastern and African asylum seekers slips, some European countries have seen a rise.

In France, for instance, official requests rose 17 percent to exceed 100,000, the highest “in at least four decades”, as an influx of Albanians seeking economic opportunity outside of their home country helped drive the rise, even though they had little chance of successfully winning asylum.

Reporting by John Miller; Editing by Richard Balmforth
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-asylum/swiss-asylum-requests-drop-to-lowest-level-since-2010-idUSKBN1FB1AZ?il=0


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