Stakeholder's Concerns into the Federal Registration and Procedure Centres in Switzerland
Stakeholder's Concerns into the Federal Registration and Procedure Centres in Switzerland

Author(s): Marwan Alkhouli, Rémi Baudoui
Subject(s): Politics, Geography, Regional studies, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Accommodation; Asylum Seekers; Reception and Procedure Centres; SEM; CEP; CFA;
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to explore the administrative and accommodation process of asylum seekers in Registration and Procedure Centres (CEP) of Swiss Confederation, which are managed by the State Secretary for Migrations (SEM). It is the result of an unprecedented survey we have conducted in two federal Centres. By interviewing the three main field actors, we highlight the interactions between SEM administrative staff, management and accommodation employees and asylum seekers who are received in the CEPs for a temporary period at the beginning of the asylum procedure. We will be confronted with the hypothesis that despite the integrated reception process in these centres, the implementation of the Sectoral Asylum Plan and the acceleration of asylum procedures, as well as the varied concerns and priorities of the main actors impact the development of future federal centres (CFA) and cannot satisfy all the requirements of asylum process stakeholders.

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