Solidarité sans frontières
Solidarité sans frontières (Sosf) is a nationwide migration policy organization based in Bern , which was created on March 31, 2000 from the merger of Asylkoordination Schweiz (AKS) and BODS (Movement for an open, democratic and solidary Switzerland). She coordinates campaigns like “Nothing works without us”, maintains an archive and publishes a quarterly bulletin .
aims
The Union
“Stands up for solidarity without borders with people who are looking for acceptance in our country, regardless of their origin. Solidarité sans frontières fights for the defense of fundamental rights for everyone who lives here. " (Own definition)
“Is a human rights and peace organization with the purpose of giving migrants and refugees in Switzerland a voice. He wants to initiate and support processes and changes that help to create an open Switzerland based on solidarity. He campaigns against the discrimination and marginalization of refugees and migrants and against every form of racism and xenophobia. "
activities
The organization is committed to the exclusion of social assistance for people with a non- entry decision (NEE) and a negative asylum decision. In addition, she campaigns for the rights of the illegal immigrants ( Sans papiers ) refugee group and is supported by the organization in representing their concerns in public. In 2003 the campaign “Nothing works without us.” initiated and coordinated within the framework of this campaign from 8-14 September 2008 "the week of migrants". Sosf criticizes migration management and Switzerland's accession to the Schengen / Dublin agreements . The organization lobbied at an early stage against the new tightening of the Asylum Act and the new Aliens Act, accompanied by Federal Councilor Blocher, and campaigned for the double referendum against both laws in 2006.
literature
Manfred Züfle and Anni Lanz describe from the perspective of a politically thinking writer and a grassroots activist how the alien and the alien have been constructed over the past thirty years and how they have been delimited and excluded from the self-constructed.
- “Die Fremdmacher”, around 150 pages, edition 8, 2006, on behalf of the association
- Lanz, Anni / Züfle, Manfred: The foreign makers. Resistance to Swiss asylum and migration policy , edition 8, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-85990-090-5