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The relation of the Swiss immigration-referendum and the share of foreigners

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In 2014 Switzerland had a referendum about the initiative “against mass immigration”. I passed with 50.33 percent to the surprise of most people. The result caused a turmoil in Swiss politics. The goal of the initiative was to introduce upper limits for immigration. This seemed to contradict the Schengen-agreement with the European Union. Implementing it would probably mean the end of free movement and risk the Bilateral treaties with the EU, which are an important pillar of the economic success of Switzerland.

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Which European country has the highest share of foreign born population?


For this graph I was interested in which countries had the highest immigration in recent times. I used data from the European Census 2011. Unfortunately the data is a bit old and there doesn’t exist a new version yet. Because Asia can mean a lot of things, I checked from which countries the most people come from. I didn’t count Russia as Asian here.

Because the numbers are quite old, I looked into recent numbers from Germany, where many would expect the most change. I found the Data on the website of the federal bureau for statistics. Unsurprisingly the number of immigrants has risen.