Re:How I got my Japanese permanent residency
by microtherion on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:13PM
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That used to be common until a few decades ago, but naturalization for Swiss-born children of immigrants has become much easier in recent years (and much more of a legal right, rather than a privilege granted at the discretion of communities).
Only 0.1% of the Swiss population are non-naturalized third generation immigrants, and only 2.4% are non-naturalized second generation immigrants. https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/population/m...
This is still higher than e.g. in the US, where the corresponding numbers are close to zero, but it's not nearly as high as it used to be.
Which, together, still make today 50% of all the "foreigners" living in Switzerland.
They are called immigrants, but are actually people with a grandfather who went there 50-60 years ago who never became a regular citizen.