No place to call home: almost a year ago, Swiss voters rejected a move to make citizenship an easier proposition for second- and third-generation foreigners. Swiss News looks at obstacles that remain for the Swiss-born and other foreigners.

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No place to call home: almost a year ago, Swiss voters rejected a move to make citizenship an easier proposition for second- and third-generation foreigners. Swiss News looks at obstacles that remain for the Swiss-born and other foreigners.

When you belong to a country you take certain things for granted, like your passport, the vote, your accent or dialect and maybe your support for the national team. But life isn't so simple for many second- and third-generation 'foreigners' in Switzerland.

They likely develop a degree of attachment to their parents' culture and country of origin but for the most part they are just another classmate, growing up in the Swiss way, speaking the local ...

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