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Immigration and Switzerland's unlikely World Cup heroes
Few, though, would have predicted that the latest hero to make Swiss hearts swell with pride would be called Xherdan Shaqiri - not to mention his team-mates, Valon Behrami, Granit Xhaka, Haris Seferovic, or Admir Mehmedi.
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They are all Muslims, in a country which very recently voted to ban minarets.
And they are all immigrants or the children of immigrants to Switzerland, where voters in February backed strict new quotas on immigration.
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And there is evidence of more systematic discrimination. Studies by the Swiss Federal Commission on Racism showed that young people with Balkan surnames had a far smaller chance of getting a job or an apprenticeship than those with Swiss names.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28085070
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They are all Muslims, in a country which very recently voted to ban minarets.
And they are all immigrants or the children of immigrants to Switzerland, where voters in February backed strict new quotas on immigration.
...
And there is evidence of more systematic discrimination. Studies by the Swiss Federal Commission on Racism showed that young people with Balkan surnames had a far smaller chance of getting a job or an apprenticeship than those with Swiss names.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28085070