Last updated: October 2011

Switzerland Detention Profile

Reference List

 

 

24 heures. 2011. “Genève: des policiers supplémentaires vont patrouiller dans les rues.” 24 heures. 1 September 2011.

 

Achermann, Christin & Clément de Senarclens (University of Neuchâtel). 2011. “’Coercive measures’ in Swiss Foreign Nationals Act: justifying exclusion by mixing migration and insecurity?” Paper prepared for the Workshop “Europeanization of Exclusion Policies and Practices”, University of Neuchâtel, 16-17 June 2011.

 

Achermann, Christin (University of Neuchâtel). 2011. Email correspondence with Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 7 October 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Amnesty International. 2001. Switzerland: Death during forcible deportation: an exchange of correspondence following the death of Samson Chukwu. Amnesty International. AI Index: EUR 43/005/2001. May 2001.

 

Amnesty International. 2010. Amnesty International Report 2010: State of the World's Human Rights. Amnesty International. May 2010.

 

Avet, Marie (Swiss Federal Office for Migration). Email message to Cecilia Cannon (Global Detention Project). 8 June 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

BBC News. 2010. “Swiss voters back expulsion of foreign criminals.” BBC News. 28 November 2010.

 

Beetschen, Claude (Etat de Geneve). Email correspondence with Claudie Fioroni (Global Detention Project). 11 May 2009. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Bregnard Ecoffey, Chloé (Service d'aide Juridique aux Exiles). 2011.Phone conversation with Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 23 August 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Bruderer, Rolf (Head of asylum, Department of Justice and Security, Migration, Canton Thurgau). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 28 June 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Burnand, Frédéric. 2010. “Will deportation vote lead to EU tension?” swissinfo.ch. 7 November 2010.

 

Conférence latine des Chefs des Départements de justice et police (CLDJP). Undated website. “Le contexte du concordat LMC.” http://www.cldjp.ch/concordats/contexte_lmc.html (accessed 21 June 2011).

 

Conférence latine des Chefs des Départements de justice et police (CLDJP). 2004. “Etablissement concordataire de détention administrative LMC de Frambois, à Vernier, dans le canton de Genève.” 8 April 2004. http://www.cldjp.ch/concordats/etabl__de_frambois.html.

 

Conseil fédéral. 2009. Application et effet des mesures de contrainte en matière de droit des étrangers : Rapport du Conseil fédéral sur la mise en oeuvre des recommandations de la Commission de gestion du Conseil national (Rapport du 24 août 2005 sur l’application et l’effet des mesures de contrainte en matière de droit des étrangers) du 24 juin 2009. Bern.

 

Contrôle parlementaire de l'administration. 2005. Evaluation des mesures de contrainte en matière de droit des étrangers: Rapport final du Contrôle parlementaire de l’administration à l’attention de la Commission de gestion du Conseil national. Berne.

 

De Maria, Alessandro. (Department of Justice, Canton Ticino). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 5 July 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Diem, Roland (Department of Security and Justice, Migration Office, Canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 28 June 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Ducommun, Steve Vaucher (Collaborateur scientifique, Office fédéral de la statistique). 2011. Email communication to Cecilia Cannon (Global Detention Project). 14 June 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Ducrest, Bernard (Chef de service Asile et Aide au Départ, Département de la sécurité, de la police et de l’environnement – Office cantonal de la population, Service étrangers et confédérés). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 19 August 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Dürst, Erich (Service de la Population, Canton Vaud). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 28 June 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Etablissement concordataire de détention administrative LMC de Frambois, à Vernier, dans le canton de Genève (Le Contexte du concordat LMC). La Conference Latine des Chefs des Departements de Justice et Police. Règlement de Frambois. 8 April 2004.

 

European Committee on the Prevention of Torture (CPT). 2008. “Observations preliminaries formulées par la délégation du Comité européen pour la prevention de la torture et des peines ou traitements inhumains ou dégradants (CPT) à l’issue de sa visite en Suisse du 24 septembre au 5 octobre 2007.” Strasbourg. CPT/Inf (2008) 1. 7 January 2008.

 

European Network of Asylum Reception Organisations (ENERO). 2007. “Report of exchange programme in Switzerland.” ENARO exchange programme to Switzerland, October 2007, H. Jorgensen & K. Loeng.

 

Fahrni, Ruedi (Head of Asylum Seekers, Office for Migration, Canton Schwyz). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 29 July 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Federal Department of Justice and Police (DFJP). 2011. Rapport sur des mesures d’accélération dans le domaine de l’asile. Swiss Confederation. March 2011.

 

La Forteresse. http://www.laforteresse.ch.

 

Gasser, Josef (Abteilungsleiter, Vokswirtschaftsdepartement Obwalden, Amt für Arbeit, Abteilung Migration, Canton Obwalden). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 5 July 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Greber, Linda (Office for Migration and Home Affairs, Canton Aargau). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 7 July 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Haltiner, Nadine. 2011. “La police fait usage de la violence lors d’un renvoi force au Nigeria.” Tribune de Geneve. 9 July 2011.

 

Human Rights Watch (HRW). 2006. “Switzerland: Vote to Follow Basic Principles of Refugee Protection.” Human Rights Watch. 22 September 2006.

 

Kakpo, Nathalie (University of Geneva). 2011. Interview with Cecilia Cannon (Global Detention Project). 23 May 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Kakpo, Nathalie (University of Geneva). 2011b. Email message to Cecilia Cannon (Global Detention Project). 5 October 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

  

Kakpo, Nathalie, Laure Kaeser et Sandro Cattacin. 2011. Evaluation du projet-pilote Detention : Enjeux, instruments et impacts de l’intervention de la Croix-Rouge Suisse dans les centres de détention administrative. University of Geneva, Department of Sociology.

 

Loi fédeérale sur les étrangers. (LEtr). 16 December 2005, (etat 1er Janvier 2009). Federal Assembly of the Swiss Confederation.

 

Loi sur l’asile (Asylum Law). 26 June 1998 (etat 1er Avril 2011). Federal Assembly of the Swiss Confederation.

 

Goumaz, Magalie. 2011. “Malgré la pétition, la fermeture des centres de détention est peu probable.” Le Matin. 8 October 2011.

 

Menzi, Max (Head, Justice and Security Department Basel-City Population and Migration Services, Canton Basel-Stadt). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 12 July 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Meyer, Beat (Office for Migration, Canton Basel- Stadt). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 27 June 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Modoux, François. 2011. A la racine du malaise autour de «Vol spécial». Le Temps. 7 October 2011.

 

National Commission for the Prevention of Torture (CNPT). 2011a. “La Commission nationale de prevention de la torture publie ses premiers rapports de visite.” CNPT. Press release (Communiqués). 11 January 2011. http://www.nkvf.admin.ch/content/nkvf/fr/home/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen/2011/2011-01-11.html (accessed 6 September 2011).

 

National Commission for the Prevention of Torture (CNPT). 2011b. “La CNPT publie un rapport sur sa visite dans des lieux de privation de liberté du canton de Zurich.” CNPT. Press release (Communiqués). 21 June 2011. http://www.nkvf.admin.ch/content/nkvf/fr/home/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen/2011/2011-06-21.html (accessed 6 September 2011).

 

Ordonnance 1 sur l’asile relative à la procedure. du 11 août 1999 (Etat le 1er janvier 2011). Conseil federal. http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/rs/1/142.311.fr.pdf.

 

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). 2008. OECD Factbook 2010. http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/oecd-factbook_18147364.

 

Peter, René (Office for Migration, Canton Zug). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 18 July 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Ponzetto, Sandrine (Team leader for eviction, Canton St. Gallen). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 11 July 2011. Geneva, Switzerland. 
 
Regli, Andreas (Head of department of asylum and repatriation, Migration Office of the Canton of Lucerne). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 28 June 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Rendl, Renata (Canton Schaffhausen). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). Geneva, Switzerland. 28 June 2011.

 

Rickenbacher, Thomas (Verwaltungspolizei, Kanton Appenzell Innerrhoden). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 1 July 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Rieben, Charles (Migration and Swiss Permits, Asylum and Return, Canton of Solothurn). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 25 July 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Smith, Ray. 2009. “Switzerland: Undocumented Migrants Run Their Own School.” Ipsnews.net. 13 October 2009. www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48829 (accessed 30 November 2009).

 

Steinberg, Jonathan. 1996. Why Switzerland? Cambridge University Press. 1996.

 

Swissinfo.ch. 2009. “Life in transit.” Swissinfo.ch. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Life_in_transit.html?cid=662690 (accessed 20 June 2011).

 

Swissinfo.ch. 2011a. “Switzerland and Nigeria to cooperate on migration.” Swissinfo.ch. 14 February 2011.

 

Swissinfo.ch. 2011b. “Asylum seekers bunk down in emergency shelters.” Swissinfo.ch. 5 May 2011. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/foreign_affairs/Asylum_seekers_bunk_down_in_emergency_shelters.html?cid=30162214 (accessed 9 May 2011).

 

Swiss Confederation News. 2011. « La Fédération des Églises protestantes de Suisse chargée du contrôle des renvois prévu dans la législation sur les étrangers. » www.newsadmin.ch http://www.news.admin.ch/message/index.html?lang=fr&msg-id=39618 (accessed 21 June 2011).

 

Swiss NGO coalition for the UPR. 2008. “Swiss NGO coalition for the UPR: list of recommendations.” 8 May 2008. http://www.fidh.org/-Switzerland- (accessed 2 May 2011).

 

Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Website a. “Catalogue des établissements de privation de liberté.” Page last updated 16 September 2008. http://www.portal-stat.admin.ch/prison/files/fr/00.xml (accessed 9 May 2011).

 

Swiss Federal Statistical Office. 2011a. “Swiss Statistics – Detention in view of expulsion.” Copyright Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel 2011. http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/themen/19/03/05key/ausschaffungs.html (accessed 9 May 2011).

 

Swiss Federal Statistical Office. 2011b. “Prisons, detention – Key figures.” Copyright Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel 2011. http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/themen/19/03/05/key/ueberblick/wichtigsten_zahlen.html (accessed 9 May 2011).

 

Swiss Refugee Council (OSAR) and Forum réfugiés. 2010. Dublin II: National asylum procedure in Switzerland. Swiss Refugee Council (OSAR) and Forum réfugiés.

 

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 2011. UNHCR Global Trends 2010. UNHCR. 2011.

 

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 2010. 2009 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons. UNHCR. 15 June 2010.

 

UNHCR. 2005. “Switzerland: UNHCR deeply regrets adoption of new asylum law.” UNHCR Briefing Notes. 18 March 2005.

 

UNHCR. 2004. “UNHCR raises concerns about proposed revisions of Swiss asylum law.” UNHCR press release. 27 July 2004.

 

Varesano, Orlane (Ligue Suisse des Droit de l'Homme). 2011. Telephone interview with Cecilia Cannon (Global Detention Project). 27 May 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Vol Spécial. http://www.volspecial.ch/.

 

Wichmann, Nicole, Christin Achermann, and Denise Efionayi-Mäder Wegweisen. 2010. “Ausschaffen. Ein Grundlagenbericht zu den ausländerrechtlichen Folgen der Straffälligkeit.” Bern: Eidgenössische Kommission für Migrationsfragen EKM. 2010. http://www.ekm.admin.ch/de/dokumentation/doku/mat_wegweisen.pdf.

 

Wicker, Hans-Rudolf. 2010. “Deportation at the Limits of ‘Tolerance’: The Juridical, Institutional, and Social Construction of ‘Illegality’ in Switzerland.” In Nicholas de Genova and Nathalie Peutz, eds., The Deportation Regime. Duke University Press. 2011.

 

Wiedmer, Thierry (Chef de l’office du séjour & de l’établissement, Département de l’économie, Service des Migrations, canton Neuchâtel). 2011. Email communication with Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). Geneva, Switzerland. 23 June 2011.

 

Wuethrich, Susi (Department of Corrections, Canton Glarus). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 11 June 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Zopfi, Rolf (Gruppe augenauf, Zurich). 2011a. Email message sent to Cecilia Cannon (Global Detention Project). 9 May 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Zopfi, Rolf (Gruppe augenauf, Zurich). 2011b. Telephone interview with Cecilia Cannon (Global Detention Project). 9 May 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Zopfi, Rolf (Gruppe augenauf, Zurich). 2011c. Email message sent to Cecilia Cannon (Global Detention Project). 6 July 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Zopfi, Rolf (Gruppe augenauf, Zurich). 2011d. Email message sent to Cecilia Cannon (Global Detention Project). 29 September 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Zünd, Andreas (2007). "Von den alten zu den neuen Zwangsmassnahmen", in Achermann, Alberto et al. (eds.) Jahrbuch für Migrationsrecht 2006/2007. Bern: Stämpfli, p. 97-105.

 

Zwyssig, Patrik (Migration Department, Office of Labour and Migration, Canton Uri). Email message to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 6 July 2011. Geneva, Switzerland.