Swiss migration to France

Swiss by birth.
Total population
(est. 194,500 (2014) [1])
Regions with significant populations
Île-de-France, Aquitaine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées, Brittany, Poitou-Charentes, Corsica, Centre-Val de Loire
Languages
German, French, Italian, Romansh
Religion
Swiss Reformed Church, Orthodox and Catholicism,
Related ethnic groups
Swiss

Swiss migration to France has resulted in France being home to one of the largest Swiss-born populations outside Switzerland. Migration from the Switzerland to France has increased rapidly from the 1980s onward and by 2013 there were an estimated 194,500[2] Swiss citizens living in France.[3] Besides Paris, the Swiss living in France tend to choose the regions of southern France, Brittany, and Corsica.

Today

In 2014, the National Statistics Institute (INSEE, for its acronym in French) published a study on Thursday, according to which has doubled the number of Swiss immigrants, this increase resulting from the financial crisis that affected several countries in Europe in that period, has driven up the number of Europeans installed in France.[4] the Swiss immigrants in France show a 50% growth between 2009 and 2012.[5][6]

European immigrants in France. Portuguese 8%, British 5%, Spanish 5%, Italians 4%, Germans 4%, Romanians 3%, Belgians 3%, Switzerland 2%. [7][8]

Displaced workers of Europe in France are: Poles (18% of the total), followed by the Portuguese people (15%) and Romanians (13%).[9][10]

Notable people

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