Jaka, Shaqiri fuel debate over dual citizenship in Switzerland
(8 years ago)In the past ten years, the number of Swiss dual - citizenship citizens has increased by 40 percent. That means every fourth citizen of Switzerland holds a second passport. This data has been obtained from 916 thousand people living in Switzerland and 560 thousand citizens of Switzerland living [...]
In the past ten years, the number of Swiss dual - citizenship citizens has increased by 40 percent. That means every fourth citizen of Switzerland holds a second passport.
This data has been obtained from 916 thousand people living in Switzerland and 560 thousand citizens of Switzerland living abroad.
Statistics were published by the Swiss newspaper NZZ after Switzerland's two Kosovo-born footballers, Gerdan Shaqiri and Granit Jaka, celebrated goals against Serbia with the gesture presenting the figure of the eagle.
This raised debate in Switzerland about what it means to be Swiss in the 21st century.
Double citizenship became legal in Switzerland in 1992. The increase in the number of citizens with two passports has come mainly because of migration and marriages among people of different nationalities whose children can hold two passports.