In Switzerland, migration isn’t just inbound 

The high immigration figures for Switzerland make it easy to forget that not everyone who arrives is going to stay. In fact, the Alpine country has a comparatively high ratio of emigrants to immigrants. Who are the 90,000 or so foreigners who leave Switzerland each year, and why do they do so? New data obtained by SWI swissinfo.ch helps shed light on this outbound movement. Why we are writing this article This article is part of our “In Data” series devoted to immigration, a hot issue in Switzerland like in most developed countries. An analysis of the figures can help provide a clearer understanding of the issue and deconstruct certain preconceived ideas. In other articles, we shall be looking at the structure of immigration in Switzerland and the question of asylum. Switzerland is, without doubt, a land of immigration. In the ten-year period from 2013 to 2022, net foreign migration (the difference between the number of people coming to live in the country and those leaving to ...