States must the context of Covid-19 where places of de- uphold the principle of non-refoulement: no tention pose particular challenges in terms migrant shall be sent back to a country of overcrowding and hygiene measures where there are substantial grounds to be- and the risk of propagation of the virus. [...] with the EU based on the free movement The duration and severity of the recession of people, Switzerland will continue to be as well as the timing and extent of the eco- able to compete in the increasingly tough nomic recovery – and thus also the future market for structurally needed labor in sector and occupation-specific demand for Europe. [...] With the “Whole of In the context of its foreign migration po- Government Approach” introduced in licy, Switzerland should work more inten- 2011 and the “Interdepartmental Structure sively bilaterally and regionally with the for Foreign Migration Policy” (IMZ) set up countries of origin and transit in the area for this purpose, the Federal Council can of migration. [...] regions of the and, in the area of asylum, also with the greatest poverty and where there is the countries of origin – without scaremonge- greatest potential for migration to Europe. [...] trolling for norms of masculinity which “legitimize” violence, reduces the rate of Possible causes of the higher crime violence of migrants nearly to the level of level of the asylum sector Swiss adolescents (5.3 percent compared to The popular explanation that the higher 4.8 percent).
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