The Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen der Schweiz (HEKS) provides legal advice and support in various languages. Do you have any questions about the asylum procedure in Switzerland? Or are you the victim of discrimination or racist abuse?

• • Aargau
  • Appenzell Ausserrhoden
  • Appenzell Innerrhoden
  • Basel-Stadt
  • Basel-Landschaft
  • St. Gallen
  • Solothurn
  • Thurgau
  • Waadt
  • Zürich
• • German
  • French
  • English
• • Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER)

• • Refugees
  • Asylum system
  • Rights and duties
  • Sans-papiers
  • Discrimination

The comprehensive brochure is aimed at new residents and contains important information and addresses on various areas of everyday life.

• • Bern
• • Available in 12 different languages
• • Office for Integration and Social Affairs of the Canton of Bern

• • Family
  • Work
  • Education
  • Discrimination
  • Compulsory schooling
  • Social Security
  • Language learning
  • Accommodation

Six short videos present facts and figures to dispel common preconceptions about migration and mobility in Switzerland.

• • Switzerland
• • German
  • English
  • French
• • National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR)

• • Discrimination
  • Refugees
  • Diversity