Tibetans in Switzerland
Large groups of Tibetans have existed in Switzerland since the 1960s, when the Swiss Red Cross helped to resettle around 300 Tibetans in Switzerland . Due to a strong flow of refugees from Tibet , the number rose to several thousand.
With over 4,000 people in the country, the Tibetans make up the second largest East Asian immigrant group in Switzerland after the Filipinos . They live mainly in Zurich and Geneva , are mostly Buddhists and sometimes still speak Tibetan as their mother tongue , and mostly German , French and Italian as a foreign language .
In addition, around 150 Tibetan orphans were adopted by Swiss families. A number of Tibetans settled in the mountains of the Swiss Alps .
literature
- Jens Schlieter, Marietta Kind, Tina Lauer (eds.): The second generation of Tibetans in Switzerland: Identity negotiations and forms of Buddhist religiosity. Seismo, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03777-134-1 .
- Christian Schmidt, Manuel Bauer (photos): Exile Switzerland. Tibetans on the run, 12 life stories , Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-85791-574-1 .
Web links
Commons : Tibetans in Switzerland - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Marc Perrenoud: Tibet. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Thematic directory on Tibetan refugees in the Dodis databaseof diplomatic documents of Switzerland
- Swiss Film Weekly: Tibet in Appenzellerland, February 8, 1963 (1 min 39)