Switzerland

As early as 1975, Switzerland had 188 Philippine citizens living there. By 2005, that number had grown to 3,547. From the 1970s until the 1990s, some Filipinas came to Switzerland as guest workers, primarily in the nursing sectors. In the 1980s, some women came on 10-month work permits, officially to work as cabaret dancers; in reality, many were forced into prostitution.Migration through marriage was another common path to Switzerland. However, after 1992, those married to Swiss citizens no longer automatically acquired Swiss citizenship.The trend of Philippine citizens coming to Switzerland on tourist visas and then overstaying to find work began in the 1990s.

Almost 80% of the Filipinos in Switzerland are professionals in the medical, legal, and financial fields. Others are domestic workers. Since the Philippine government lifted a ban on deployment of au pairs to Europe, roughly 100 have gone to Switzerland from the Philippines. In 2011, the Philippine Department of Labor and Employment and the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration began talks with the Swiss government regarding the training of health workers from the Philippines.

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