Immigration permits for non-European Union citizens will be harder to get in Switzerland, but the country will also have to improve its efforts to integrate the newly arrived. Those are the two main goals of the proposed new Immigration and Integration Act presented on Wednesday by the Federal Council, in agreement with the cantons...According to some studies, Switzerland has a long way to go before it excels in integrating its 23 percent of foreign-born residents. The 2010 Migration Integration Policy Index (Mipex), led by the British Council and the Migration Policy Group, gave the country 43 out of 100 points, placing it 23rd out of 31 countries...Read more
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Thomas Huddleston
Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Thomas Huddleston is a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Group, a European think-and-do-tank. He coordinates MPG’s research for European cooperation on national integration policies, including the second and third editions of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) (published in February 2011) and the third edition of the European Commission’s Handbook on Integration.
