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MARTIN RUETSCHI
More than 80 percent of the population with a migratory background was born abroad and belongs to the first generation (2,202 million people). All the others were born in Switzerland and belong to the second generation (520,000 people).
36 percent of people with a migrant background are Swiss. For the rest, Italian and German citizenship are the most common with 10 percent each. Of the first generation of immigrants, almost 50 percent come from EU or EFTA countries and 11 percent from other European countries. Other countries of origin also account for 11 percent.
In the second generation, more than two-thirds are Swiss, a quarter are from the EU or EFTA, 8 percent from other European countries and only 1 percent from outside Europe.
First-generation immigrants are less well integrated into the labor market than second-generation immigrants and like those with no immigration background. The unemployment rate for first-generation immigrants, for example, is almost three times higher than that of Swiss with no immigration history – 7.3 compared to 2.5 percent – and for later generations of immigrants around two and a half times (6.3 percent).
The different disadvantages of immigrants can also be seen, for example, in the so-called atypical working hours: first-generation immigrants are around a fifth more often at night, on Sundays and on call than people with no records migratory. Their children and grandchildren, on the other hand, take over these unpopular classes less often than professionals with no immigration backgrounds.
For employees with management functions, the differences between residents and foreigners are only smaller: professionals with no immigration background have a share of 34.7 in these positions, first-generation immigrants a share of 32.3, and second-generation immigrants. upper 32.6.
