If you ask about the little population decrease in the 1970s, oil crisis + watch crisis. Temporary workers went back home because no jobs.
It happened before, it can happen again. It might be oil, it might be a poor decision at UBS, it may be an unknown unknown.
indeed. it was 1965 in Swtizerland.
~1975: exporting joblessness. Immigrants lost their jobs so their resident permits got cancelled, as a result they returned back home (predominantly southern Italy).
Not sure about 1960 ⌠greener pastures further north thanks to Germanyâs Wirtschaftswunder perhaps?
In the seventies there was a lot of hiatus around the the Saissonier status with workers leaving (sometimes by choice as living without the family was too painful) or getting naturalised. Not sure if those numbers reflect what was going on. Did/does a Saissonier count as being part of the population?
IIRC A permits were for 9 months ânon-renewableâ. Of course they were issued to the same workers each year but they couldnât be renewed.
As such they were not permanent residents.
An opinion I read this morning.
Saisonniers didnât count as residents in the statistical sense. Nor were they eligible for naturalisation.
Excellent article - sums up quite well what my young relatives are facing, why they are delaying parenthood or limiting families to one child.
Parents in Switzerland have neither of these problems. They can buy neither a house nor even an apartment before their first kid is born. And they donât care about unvaccinated kids in the class, because vaccination is voluntary and even the school is not allowed to know who is vaccinated and who is not.
My understanding was that the Swiss, in general, are not so keen on property/residence ownership as say in the UK, US, etc ⌠Their focus is more on managing the expenses and living life with enjoying their time off, holidays, experiences, memories, etc âŚ
They are relying on their âsocial systemâ (ahv/bfg/3a,b), savings, etc to carry them along in their sunset years âŚ
Sorry that doesnât make sense. Not knowing doesnât mean itâs less worrisome to send your kids to school. And if you have vaccinated your kid(s) why would they care about other unvaccinated kids?
That is the problem with leaving vaccination voluntary. Unvaccinated kids lead to outbreaks of the disease for which vaccination probably does not offer 100% protection. It is not just a matter of personal choice. Your actions are affecting others and not just your own children.
Educate kids better in schools. Teach them critical thinking from the early age. Itâs more important than foreign languages or math.
The majority of kids in Switzerland have at least one foreign parent. You cannot trust what they are being taught in the family.
I find that hard to believe.
Seems to be basically true
Interesting, but I would like to see the comparable statistic of how many children under the age of six were living in a household in which at least one parent was born in Switzerland or is a Swiss national before reading too much into it.
Iâd expect that number to be higher than 6.
Not statistically valid but in our street with 12 households we have one where both parents are Swiss born. In a second one parent who was born here as British but became Swiss as a teenager.
I am sure this percentage fluctuates wildly between locations but I can quite believe the statistic quoted, though it only looks at a short time span. Is this positive or negative or just a fact of life? The American dream was based on people from hugely different backgrounds taking on a new nationality. The strength of that new identity depends on people buying into the dream. Integration can mean many things.
Switzerland already is multi-cultural. Nostalgia for a past long gone is fine at one level but does not always help moving forward.
In my kidsâ classes, both in the primary school and in the gymnasium, the number of kids with two Swiss parents is minimal.
Welcome to the reality.